Here comes the rain again

Well, it's been a busy few days. Verónica, one of the Spanish tutors at
Salford University, came to visit me and Heather. We had quite a good time:
we talked about the placements, tried to find a restaurant etc. Then
yesterday we went with Nieves and Isadoro to a restaurant for dinner, and I
had paella and sea bass (lubina), which was ok, but a bit too bony for my
liking.

The day before yesterday, at about 3pm, a cold wind started to blow. This
is all after having 25º heat for the whole of autumn so far. Then,
yesterday morning at 5am, the rain started. And it's not your usual
Manchester Drizzle Rain that you can get, it's full on heavy (and sometimes
torrential) rain. Well, you should see the state of Spain when it rains!!!
The place falls to pieces! All of the new roundabouts they built have
flooded, there's a dip in the trunk-road outside Frost-Trol that no-one
thought to put a grid/drain into. The grids that *do* exist are
overflowing, and there are rivers of water coming out of all the parks, as
no-one thought to put grids in the park either. How random! I went home
with Joana, but as the trunk road was flooded at the dip I just told you
about, the Police were directing people down the "Caminas" which are tine
little side roads, like tracks really. Try to imagine the East Lancs being
diverted down a road the width of King Street in Manchester. No fun. So we
decided to go further North and get on the other trunk road, which is
higher up, and thus has no problems.

This morning, Nieves told me that her car wouldn't start last night, and
that the factory workers had to help her jump-start the car. So she decided
to take her husband's 4x4 to work, as if we were off roading int'bloody
Amazon!!! It's only RAIN! lol makes me chuckle! No, I suspect the 4x4 will
work better in very wet weather, so it's better really! It's 9:15, and it's
easing off a bit now... we'll see what transpires!

Well, gonna go and do some work. Good old Sergio has given me a new
keyboard with a proper wrist rest on it, so now I can throw these packagine
air pods away!!

Ben xxx