It’s been a while since the last update but I will try and
keep it brief.
So, after discarding all the old (black and mould-ridden)
washing up cloths and vowing that I would be in charge of washing up every
night during our stay to ensure things were actually clean, we decided to stick
it out here in Sitges with Andrew and his wife/servant Valerie.
Over the last few days Nick and Andrew have completed the “Let’s knock down a perfectly good table for no apparent reason and then build an exact replica in its place” project.
I in turn, have done so much gardening to say I have become
covered in midge bites would be an understatement. You can barely see the skin that once covered
my legs. At one point I counted 35 on
one leg. I didn’t bother counting them
on the other one. After the building of
the table was complete, I was tasked with white-washing the concrete base and
sanding down the edges and painting them black.
Andrew was so pleased with the look of this black paint that
my job for the 4 hours after this was to paint every object in sight the same
colour…..candle holders, a gas heater, a bucket, a watering can…the list goes
on.
After the success of the table, Nick and Andrew then built a
new top for the well. I then painted
it…not black surprisingly, but blue.
After a few overcast days, we decided to go to the beach on
Tuesday. By the time we finished work
and got there however, the wind had really picked up and the sun had gone
in. We braved it out for half an hour or
so but then had to admit defeat.
The next day, after we’d finished work we went for a walk
and discovered a tiny path leading off the track up the mountain. We followed it and climbed up 100 or so
metres and eventually emerged into a clearing on the cliff face. Here’s a photo of Nick pretending to be a
caveman while exploring our surroundings.
On Thursday,the eve of our last full day with Andrew and
Valerie, we decided that the following day we would implement what Nick dubbed
“The Chinery Challenge” (named after our good friend Loz Chinery – this’ll be a
good way of seeing if he actually reads this blog). Andrew has an incredibly annoying habit of
repeating the same mundane point 5/6 times a day, and the aim of this game was
to repeat the same point back to him as innocently and sincerely as possible
while your voice simultaneously drips with sarcasm.
I won. 2-0. Just saying.
Just to end this post off nicely, here’s a photo of a turtle
that lives in the pond in the garden! Over to Nick to write about the weekend :-)
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