FRIDAY 9th JUNE 2017.
We have had an interesting 24 hrs, yesterday
afternoon, at around 2-00 pm, the main on-line supplier here in the village and
the rest of Spain “ Telefonica ‘ cut off the system, we have had no Landline,
Mobile, Internet or ‘ Amazon Fire TV Stick’ since then! I had the Mayor, Mario,
our neighbour chasing them but with no luck, today I called into the Town Hall
and a friend in the ‘Culture’ Department also chased them, until around 5-00 pm
this evening when it came back on!
We are back on-line, as you can see, the
Internet has re-set and is working fine, so we have been able to catch up with
all the news ie. The ‘General Election’ result! The Landline & Mobiles are
also working fine but the ‘ Amazon Fire TV Stick’ needs attention to re-connect
to the system, Lee is calling me when he comes home from work. He has just
called on the ‘Skype’ video and talked me through the procedure to re-set the ‘
Amazon Fire TV Stick ‘ RESULT ‘ – thanks!!
Finally the ‘Emergency On-Line Call Button’
to the ‘Junta de Andalucia’ Heart Monitoring system, if Brenda has a
heart problem, via the Landline, has re-set and they have called to check that
everything is all right!
The one bit of really bad news is that the ‘
Euro has dropped after the result of the General Election so the Pension transfer
due on Monday will be down on last month, we have also read that the ‘ Banco
Popular’ – nearly crash’ was triggered when depositors in Spain withdrew over
18 millons Euros on Wednesday! How did they know?!
This morning I shot off on my travels down
to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, I just about managed to get out of the
square, with Brenda’s help, when I came back later we had the same problem but
our neighbours helped get me back in the corner, my regular spot! No ‘ Reina’
again today but she is back with us next week for 4 days, on Tuesday she is at
the vets to get her nails cut, under anesthetic, ‘Chispa’ has been in & out
all the time.
I did our main shop in ‘ Mercadona’ and
then popped along to the ‘Chinese Bazaar’ for some picture frames, then I
collected the local English Newspapers from the ‘English’ Bookshop, I then
carried on down to ‘Puerto de la Duquesa’ to pick up the lounge curtains from
the Dry Cleaners, they were rather expensive, to say the least, I also left the
‘ Winter’ Duvet for cleaning. I then shot along the promenade to the local
market for the fresh flowers, finally on the way back up the hill I called into
‘ Super Sol’ for the English essentials.
We have another glorious day down here on
the ‘Costa Del Sol’- the sun was out early, it’s a little overcast and close
but still very hot, in parts of Spain, inland, it’s reached 37/39 degs and
higher, the weekend is going to be the same and then next week we are in for a
very hot one, going over the 30 degs mark, watch this space.
For our supper this evening we are having ‘
Goujons of Fillet of Hake’ using local breadcrumbs from the Bakery, with Mushy
Peas and twice-cooked diced ‘Frits’ – Homemade ‘ Tartar’ sauce on the side with
lots of Lemon Wedges.
This evening we will catch up with all the
General Election news via the BBC I Player before watching the last episode of ‘Paula’
that we missed last night, on Sunday ‘ Poldark’ returns!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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