Friday

What a varied day!

First thing this morning I popped into Benidorm to collect my blood and urine test results (see previous blog). The report was 6 pages long and covered all aspects of haemotology and biochemistry of the blood, the PSA levels and the urine results. Fortunately all was well and no indicators were above or below recommended levels. Phew! that's over for another year.

On the way back home I bought the Costa Blanca News (1,80 euros) and collected the free newspaper, The Round Town News ( I will do a news review over the weekend).

Back home to check the garden and I found the bourgainvillaea in glorious bloom (see Care of B. 19th May):

Then my wife, who had a major back operation last year needed her exercise so I joined her in the community pool for a swim (half an hour) with the sun beating down at 30 degrees. That certainly gave us an appetite for lunch.

Then, this afternoon I turned into a plumber (well, sort of!). We have a toilet cistern that has been flowing continuously (albeit slowly) so I had to replace the internal part that cuts off the water flow when the cistern is full. But I couldn't release the holding screw under the cistern - it was too tight and wouldn't budge. Needing assistance I called on my neighbour, a Frenchman, to help. Well, with the language barrier excluding an explanation of what needed to be done, with two spanners between us we laughed our way through the job! In the end it was perfect and unbelievably we had a quiet cistern again that only flowed when it was supposed to.

Then, before our evening meal, I relaxed in the shade and made four more logs for next winter (see blog May 15th).

Variety or what!