You could all have stopped in the UK and had this conversation....

Anyway,happy I postponed my journey down there.
Please let me know when Springs arrived and I'll be on my way.

Snow! It snowed here again last night...there was salt on the paths when we took the dogs out last night and OH said it was going to snow..........not a chance I said.

Don't worry it will be sunny and warm at the weekend. It always is when I come to Spain!

Yup. I'm here driving through landslips looking at cars on their roofs at the side of the A45 (well one, which is par for the course when it's wet) and marvelling at the snow on the mountains..... text from OH, due out Friday, says it'll be lovely for a week. Guess how long he's here

yes, apparently from Thursday onwards it will be lovely

heavy snow, torrential rain, gusting winds. what next? and they talk about global warming!!!!
cos the village we live in has the steepest calles in spain,it is dangerous at the best of times going down to the shops but imagine it with snow on the ground,or rain up to your ankles. and of course the electric is acting up. we have had little or no electricity for two days now. all yesterday we were sitting in the kitchen with the big log fire blazing away and candles everywhere, from about eleven in the morning until near midnight. it was great...
today about eight or nine cuts per hour is the norm. no lights,no telly,no pc,trying to boil the kettle inbetween cuts for tea...reminds me of the blitz if i was old enough to be alive during the blitz mabel.....
gotta post this befores we gets cut off again..........

Love the last line Sounds awful, while here in the north of England its a bit chilly and foggy but bearable. Glad I'm not in Spain

Wish I was!

indications are that the weather will be better by the time you are!

Out a week on Friday but only til the Sunday! If I think I am going to be in Javea, will text you.

At times like this you gotta have a sense of humour to see you through.
Reminds me of that book I just finished reading "Driving Over Lemons",....really enjoyed it,....helps learn you to make the best of what you got,....although I have roughed it a bit up in that area myself,(Alpujarra),and enjoyed it also.

And I was going to complain about our satellite and Spanish aerial coming loose yesterday and we were without TV for half-a-day before the brave repair man climbed on to the roof to fix it!

I was going to say that most of the year a location like yours would be idyllic because the winters are short in Spain, but when I thought about it, it’s not really true. The winters here may be slightly shorter than in the UK, but this one has been fierce.

I took my car into the garage early this morning and went into a local Spanish café for a warming coffee. There were half-a-dozen English people there and a gaggle of Spanish builders on their coffee break, it was about half past eight. We were all dressed in heavy overcoats, scarves, gloves, the lot and if I didn’t have to drive later I would have been on the brandy too, like the rest of them.

Overnight, the café’s machine for grilling loads of chickens at the same time had been stolen, along with the gas bottle. I would imagine someone will be using the machine to warm their casa, without any chickens rotating around.

Not only had a lot of snow here,(n.e.england),but also a huge build -up of ice, especially on the rooftops.
As it began to thaw a touch, it brought half the spouts in the village to the ground.
One huge block came down and crushed my sky dish like a concertina,smashing the arm as well,..also knocked a hole in the roof of the extension,... water everywhere.
Luckily I had a spare dish assembly,salvaged it out of a skip in Benidorm a few year back.
Looked brand new, so I suppose some misguided sole had taken it down there expecting it to work and then slung it.

That's alright then, never mind the extension roof


I was so cold this afternoon that my ears hurt. I would cheerfully have donned a pair of earmuffs if there'd been any to hand, that's how cold I was.

Right enough,question of priorities.
Replacement dish was up next day,....but still got a hole in the roof.....

Been waiting two weeks for a builder, but seems they are at full stretch with all the damage,......so I'm sitting watching Sky Sport with an umbrella in one hand and bucket in the other..........