I was rather surprised to wake up this morning and find I’d turned into the elephant man. One eye was swollen, purple and shut, my nose appeared to be growing a turnip and there was a very strange shape on the other side of my head. It took a few minutes to recover from the shock. Then I remembered that my last moments awake last night involved chasing a super-mosquito around the room. It was quite the largest mosquito I have seen and I think it took revenge over night.
I’d had a bad night sleep anyway as we awoke at 5 to find Pirata stood in the bedroom with a pigeon. He is a very quiet cat and instead of hissing he just makes a hhhhhhhhh sound, and he does the tiniest of growls. Therefore it was a little like watching a silent movie as Ian was trying to wrestle the pigeon from him. Goodness knows how Pirata caught the pigeon. I don’t think one of the others could have as they wouldn’t have surrendered it. It rained heavily last night so I wonder if a pigeon may have got waterlogged and plopped out of the sky.
The weather has continued to be odd. It is very warm – so much so we were eating lunch outside and moaning about the heat. The house feels really damp, but I think that is where it is cold in the house and warm outside. The chimney is blocked so we can’t get the fire going, which doesn’t help. I think we’ll get a dehumidifier as condensation will always be a problem – part of the reason all the walls are generally half tiled.
We have had some tremendous storms. We were on ‘orange alert’ yesterday and there were proper rain and electrical storms. Our new storm drain outside the back door worked a treat and I think we would definitely have flooded otherwise.
The kitchen is progressing. Manuel has polished the cement in the main bit and they need to finish the other part in the pantry.
We’ve also started planning landscaping the inner courtyard. I am imagining some greco-roman-bezantine type design. Ian is making that slightly scared face that he does at this stage. However I am sure that we’ll reach a happy compromise.