CASA OLIMPIA.

Monday 1st February 2010.

New month and a new start to our on going saga down here in Tarifa; over the last three weeks of January when we have not been online life in the villa has yet again been interesting and difficult at the same time,we have had very little contact from Chris over in England and the transfers arriving by Money gram and Western Union have been small and infrequent to say the least! The weather has picked up but we are still having very severe rain storms which last for two or three days at a time, the last one gave us a problem as two of the main contact breakers
on the fuse board burnt out and we had no electricity upstairs when we got up in the morning,Mano arranged for Juan to come over later in the day and he managed to fix the fuse board by installing new ones after a difficult re-wireing job, we were very grateful as it was a Friday and we could not get any local help. Joan is keeping well and her new tablets after the doctor’s visit have helped her a lot, she is not in pain from her back problem and is sleeping longer.
Last night Chris phoned at long last to inform us of his plans, he is planning to move Joan back to England by the end of February and he is selling the villa! He has also,hopfully been making arrangements to pay our outstanding large account,so watch this space,we could be back in Manilva in March ! Fingers crossed and the rest !! It is now down to him to make everything happen, we have heard it all before but hopefully this time things will happen.In the meantime I have to pay the electricity bill with a credit card,his and also arrange to pay in cash the water bill over the next few days so tomorrow I am going over to Estepona to collect a cash transfer and to check out our house and do some shopping,later in the week we are trying to go over to see Gissy and Vidal which means that Brenda will be able to get her hair cut,it is the longest that it has ever been since we met over forty years ago!! There are still lots of problems to be resolved back at the villa,we don’t know what is going to be done about the dogs and cats,Boo is a dream and we would have him in a flash but it is just not possible as we do not have a garden and also in our contract there is a no animal clause! The two cars sat on the drive are another problem as they are now both uninsured and with no tax,so it is going to be very interesting month!