Pictures as promised last post. The past 10 days have been hectic as usual. We have spent time sorting bedrooms so that Alex has somewhere to sleep while he is here. Michael has also been finishing the painting of the garage.

Last Sunday we drove to Murcia airport to collect Alex for the Christmas holidays. He had had a good flight but when we walked out of the airport the rain had started. We were aware of the chance of rain but had driven to the airport in fine weather so were quite surprised to find that so much rain had fallen while we were waiting (only about 20 minutes). On the way back we managed to ourdrive the weather and arrived about half an hour before it did in Los Llanos. It continued through Monday together with some very cold weather (for here). The weather finally improved Wednesday and we have arrived again at temperatures during the day of 18 - 20.

We have finally succumbed to having a satellite dish set up so I expect we will be watching a fair amount over Christmas - many of our favourite film appear to be on over the holiday period so we will spend some time relaxing before Alex's return to the UK just before the New Year.