Having a Sunday
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @ 4:21 PM
Today we are just chilling (in this weather??!) as our inner clocks are completely out of sync and the whole village is awake during the night and sleeping by day! Blame the heat and the fiestas! I believe it was 32 degrees in Granada at 2am and certainly driving back from Salobrena at that time was an open window event. I think I was asleep by about 3am and Steve an hour or so later, so now he's crashed out on the sofa with a fan blowing and it's only 2pm! Later on we might go down to Ferreirola to see/hear the local choir and a visiting English one to some singing in the Plaza outside the church. Two nights ago they were in the cemetery, singing a couple of pieces for those who die in the summer and are quickly buried, without any particular ceremony. About 50 people were there and it was an interesting midnight moment to say the least.
Last night was tango night so I abandoned Steve for the arms of other men :) and did a bit of footwork a la Buenos Aires. Having just acquired a wicked pair of shoes (black with emerald green heels) I thought I ought to give them an airing. There are some spectaculalry good dancers around so I always go home thinking I could have done better - cleaner lines, more precise feet, more elegance...but they say it takes 10 years for a man to learn his part and 5 or 6 for a woman, so I have a while to go yet.
On the foodie front, I have made some tomato puree for the freezer as we are now getting inundated with the delicious stuff, and trying my hand at a summer pudding made with raseberries and blackberries, all from the land. We have no blackcurrants or redcurrants but the taste can be enhanced with some mulberry jelly. I may have to have several 'goes' before it's right. Anyone got any tips?
We sampled some delicious home-made tinto de varano with our neighbours the other evening: 2 or 3 big ice cubes, 1/2 glass home-made red wine, topped up with Fanta lemonade and a slice of fresh lemon. Very refreshing and very inebriating after the second glass! I think now is a good time to try making it again, before a siesta....