Golf Gardens Miraflores Community News

Hola everyone, Things appear to be pretty quiet on the complex at the moment with majority of holidaymakers back in England enjoying the Indian summer!!!! The committee are holding a meeting this Thursday evening at Intercala in Spain to try and sign off a few of the issues that need resolving after the August break in Spain. Items currently on the agenda include: Surveyors report, To establish the damage and repair costs for the roofs and water damaged buildings around the community. A decision will be taken on this to progress legal action against the promoter for the costs of repair. This is the number one priority for the community currently and it needs to be understood that this needs to be resolved before we can consider any other projects or improvements. Lift Company, As you will be aware there are a number of lift shafts on the community that require remedial building work to stabilise the up and down transit of the lifts. Dates for this work need to be confirmed. We are pleased to report that at last some of the emergency telephones in the lifts have been connected, the remaining lifts we hope will be sorted in the near future. Post-boxes, now fully operational for those people that have collected their keys, discussions to agree how to keep this area neat and tidy with people not being on-site for long periods will be held and decisions on how to remove excess junk mail will be confirmed. Please arrange to collect your new keys as soon as possible from Intercala. Pool laboratories, this is to confirm the new "tablet" chlorination system for the pool. This should be installed within the next 4 weeks and Marcello and his team will be trained to control the system. The Presidente has also requested updated income and expenditure accounts for the community to be presented at the meeting so that we can establish exactly the financial situation of the community. Any necessary legal action against debtors will be discussed. Quotes have also been obtained for the substancial tiling of the pool surround and other areas, subject to the situation with the roofs been resolved and acceptable costs being received we can consider this in relation to the budgets we have so that this urgent improvement can be progressed Other than clarification on these points, we hope to bring you some more news later in the week once the meeting has been held. If you have any other items that you wish the community to discuss on thursday please add a comment below and we will add it to the agenda.

Hola everyone

Well that was an interesting 2 weeks in Spain, firstly lets get all the great bits out of the way...... the weather was fantastic, the guys behind the bar at Andys Beach in cabopino were on top form during the day with their free shots and general merryment to keep the holidaymakers amused. we discovered a couple of great new restaurants that have moved into our top 10 restaurants list, firstly Julie's on the port at Cabopino - great wraps and starter portion size meals all at 7 euros a go- everyone order a couple of different ones and then mix and match - great value, good fun and top food...check it out.
Also the sister restaurant to the Mijas Player in la cala - Sloane's in Elvira, just behind the water company's offices. Spectacular food and a great ambiance- dont miss it.

We also discovered this time the Don Carlos Beach Club, 20 euro's a bed may seem a little expensive, but compare that to the 40 or 125 for a double sunbed at Nikki Beach and 50 at Pangea (double lounger) and its good value for money when you add in all the extras they give you, free juices are reguarly bought to your sunbed, free towels, 2 or 3 ice cold facetowels to cool you down, cocktail shots and all day waiter service with reasonable priced drinks, they also give you 10 euro's off the 60 euro spectacular buffet available in the restaurant, but we stayed with the sandwiches and burgers off the bar menu and they were all great. TIP: We also found it useful on our last day, as we were able to wash and dry all the Beach towels in the apt.

As previously mentioned by Jeremy, the first community BBQ party was a great success, over 60 people enjoyed the sangria, wine, beers and juices, the food was being cooked all afternoon and then everyone seemed to get a second hunger at about 8pm and the BBQ's were fired up again. The party was scheduled to end at 9pm and at 10.30 we all called it a day and the survivors wandered across to Bar Oro to carry on late into the night. All the children thought the magician was great fun as well as he kept them all occupied for over an hour.

In preparation for the party the tiles on the top of block 11 were powerwashed by jeremy and they looked better than they had done for a few years. The gardeners had been doing their best to make the place look neat and tidy and in general they succeded. We still believe we have some watering issues around the gardens, which are being investigated by Jeremy and Dave as our plants continually seem to be on the verge of dieing, rather than blossoming and producing loads of new growth and colour....this is now in hand, as i mentioned.

As we move into September the Spanish nationals get back to work and try to catch up with all the backlog of work from their August siesta!

The new postboxes are now in situ at the entrance to the community and your new keys are available from Intercala, i can already see from the amount of junk mail in my box that these will very quickly get full for people that arent there all the time, lets hope our cleaner can keep on top of this. We are also still discussing the issue of the community holding the spare set of keys so that if a postbox overflows it can be emptied of all the junk. An ongoing issue that will no doubt throw up more problems.

The ongoing lift saga rolls up and down, the maintenace team turn up time after time and claim to resolve the problems, however this isnt the case and Intercala are now back on the problem and we hope that it will be resolved sooner than later. I wont even mention the ongoing lift emergency telephone problem, other than to say lazara is screaming at them everyday.

We have received quotes for the automatic chlorination of the pool and that is likely to be initiated in the next few weeks, likewise an inspection of the pool has shown that the expected service is not as urgent as we believed and the pool is still in very good condition. This news will allow us to defer some minor upgrades that we were proposing for this year to hopefully next years budget.

Quotes are coming in thick and fast for the terracotta tiling of most of the grass area around the pool, this will make the pool area look a lot more clean, neat and tidy and resolve the problems we have with the current dead grass and muddy areas around the pools edge. We are possibly looking for this work to be done over the winter when the pool is used least...... if the costs are within budgets allocated for the project.

other than the above,  i'm sure there will be other things that i've forgotten to mention, so when i'm reminded by everyone look out for the next installment. 

Adios   

Thanks to everyone who attended last weeks BBQ party, it was great to see everyone getting together and having a good time.
Thanks to Ivett for all the preparation and to Paul for the sound system.

I hope we can arrange another party early next summer (the weekend before the AGM) which will allow even more people to attend.

Catch up with you soon
Cheers
Jeremy