Living with the Presidente.

El Presidente and Moi have been to Ikea and Primark at Murcia today.

We got back to out apartment at 6.15pm and by 6.28pm two people had phoned and two people had called.................do they have some kind of announcement system that tells everybody we are at home ???????? It's not a case of 'Elvis has left the building', more a case of El Presidente is IN the building ! ! !

The two phone calls were from owners who found on arrival that they had no TV and wanted to be connected to the satellite asap..........like yesterday !!

One of the callers wants to put in a formal complaint about his neighbours. Apparently there has been much coming and going in the middle of the night and LOTS of noise throughout the night.......................and some 'funny' smelling smoke....................??? GREAT....................just another day in the life of El Presidente!!

The other caller was in a tizz about her Community fees, well really she was agitated because she is on the debtor's list and she said she had paid. Unfortunately ( for her ) it turned out that she hads changed her bank account but not told El Presidente or the Administrator so her direct debit had 'bounced'. The only problem now is that she has incurred a 20 per cent fine................................she is not over pleased about this and El Presidente got a mouth full ( what's new? )

Antway................it's all quiet now so I'm going to sit on my balcony with El Presidente, a cup of coffee, an oat crispy ( from Ikea ) and a cigarette and remember why I am pleased to live in Spain!!       

When El Presidente and Moi got off the plane at Murcia last Saturday evening, we both breathed a sigh of relief!!

The last few months have been such a merry go round we have almost forgotten where we live!! However, we will have to go back to the UK in March to finish sorting things out, but for now, we are just going to enjoy being at home in the sunshine again!!

We had been back in the apartment for all of ten minutes ( do they have some system which announces our arrival ?? ) when the doorbell rang and an irate owner was telling El Presidente that his TV had gone off ! This owner has obviously missed all the panic about TV decline so El Presidente explained what has been happening ( again ).

Several more owners have joined the Communal satellite system, mainly because Torresat have scrambled the 'illegal' signal.

Apparently one apartment has had it's electricity cut off and the owner is convinced that the electricity costs should be included in the Community fees!! El Presidente has explained in great detail what he actually pays for in his Community fees but the owner is not having any of it and says he's going to see his solicitor in the UK about it. He still has no electricity though!!

Right, I'm off to have a cigarette on my balcony now......................and I won't have to feel like a second class citizen because I smoke like I did in UK. !!