May 2007

Another 'mixed week' weatherwise. I arrived on Monday 21 to an electric thunderstorm which even knocked out the satelite TV stations. But there were good days ahead. David Radford brought me up to date with neighbourhood developments (ie, gossip) - the saddest part of which was the death of John Clarke at 'Oasis' who had been doing his two lengths in flippers and goggles regularly until quite recently. The tree in the Plaza (pictured above when alive) has been poisoned by persons unknown and has now been cropped, and climbing vines planted round its base. I got a replacement mobile phone from Adam's Internet shop, read and wrote reviews for the next newsletter, and lived more or less the whole week from one shop at Mercadonna.