Not really going on about the rain ..... but!

Its a funny thing you know! It rains constantly in England - all winter and most of the summer! Spring is usually very good and Autumn can be too. However, predominantly we think of the UK and we think "damp". Its been raining here on and off, since the week before Christmas - about two months and are we fed up with it? You betcha we are!!!

I have said to Derek, if I moan about the heat this coming summer feel free to give me a good slap (virtual of course - a real one might end in me slapping him back). There is nothing like a bit of adversity to make one appreciate what one has!

The other thing we take for granted - the electricity thing - hmmm rain and electricity dont go well together here - in fact the other day we had a rapidly diminishing supply of the one and an increasing supply of the other. As the day wore on the lights got dimmer and dimmer - rallying sometime in the afternoon to plummet again when people started to turn on appliances and lights!

Have YOU tried calling Endesa - there is a possibility that I might commit murder one day. DONT call in the afternoon - I think they might be on skeleton crew. I spent a lot of time on hold - a LOT - the first time I got to speak to someone he spoke Spanish verrrrrrrrrrrry fast and refused to slow down. After a lot of tries I finally made it back to being on hold and on hold and on hold .............. yawn ....oh yes someone to speak to and I lost signal on my mobile. And so on and so on - in the end I was far more frustrated by Endesa/vodaphone than I ever was by the very low power. Next time - I will just wait it out I think!

Finally Endesa/Sevillana came to clamber up the pylon and switch off all the electricity (they waited until it was nearly dark to do this, of course) - mad rush around to light candles etc. The guy went up the pylon with a little TORCH - bless him!! Anyway about an hour later - hey presto - bright lights! (Nothing to do with his torch - this was POWER).

But something occurred to me during all this. We thought that it was bad here in Spain but we have never been more than a few hours without electricity. Yes we have been without due to the anomaly that is our house, at times, but never because of Endesa. Yet we hear on the news of places in the UK being without power for days. So we cant really grumble can we?