This little piggie.....

Today's excitement was a sighting of a whole herd of wild pigs.... drinking from the irrigation channel which has now been connected all the way from the spring to the village. As you see, I took photos but they were a long way away. After a while they went back over the road and off up into the hills. It is amazing how quickly they disappear even though the slopes are hardly thickly wooded.

On Monday I took Marmela to the vet who pronounced her ill and gave her some injections and a prescription for antibiotic and baby aspirin (to get her fever down) to be given twice a day for a week ...... needless to say she is hating every mouthful. She does appear to be getting better - only the very occassional sneeze.

All the cats are very flea-ridden at the moment and no amount of frontline seems to be making an impact... I don't know where they are coming from. I think Elvis spends a fair amount of time in the goatshed (from the smell of him) and apparently the goats have loads of fleas so maybe that is where he is picking them up and then passing them on to the others.

Building work has somewhat stalled... we are just about ready to do the roof but the wood that was to be used for shuttering is now being used elsewhere and will not be available for another week - so the workers are starting on the outside walls, "papering" as Mohamed calls it, and I think we will be doing the arches in the patio as well.

We are expecting a visitor later today... he doesn't know yet that we are about a month behind with the building work so I just hope he is not expecting too much in the way of luxury. He has cycled from Tangiers.