It has been raining here for the last five weeks with the exception of about 3 days when the weather was quite promising and spring/summer like. We seem to have experienced the monsoon season throughout April with some very heavy rain and several thunderstorms. (We haven't been able to do very much outside, that's why the place looks a bit disorganised at the moment.)
Yesterday evening on Spanish TV news they were showing torrential rain and hailstones in Valencia and guess where we are going tomorrow on the village trip - Valencia! More on that later...
We have also had 2 very large water barrels, 1500 litres each, connected to collect the rain water from the guttering we had fitted to the house. They have been full to overflowing since January.
The 2 containers are inside the "house" that Cyprian, our constructor, built for them. A pump pushes the water through the hose and so I am able to water the plants - not that they have needed much this last month.
With all of this water however, the almonds are swelling, the roadsides are very colourful with all of the wild flowers, including poppies, and the fields are lush - just like England at this time of the year after all of the April showers - only it has been drier and much warmer in England than here this year so far.
You can even see the flowers forming on the vine which because of the rain is looking very vigorous with it's fresh green leaves.
That's it for today so as they say in "Star Wars", "May the fourth be with you!"
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