Hallo

Been busy with visitors this last week. My neice Katharine and her boyfriend Scott came for a short visit so I have been off round some of the usual haunts. There was water in the cascades at Immouzer and we saw some scorpions and heard the wolves up in the mountains though nobody got up early enough to see any of the wild boar. It was a very hot week so we didn't drive inland to Taroudant but had a few days on the beach.

Meanwhile back at the house, the arches have been finished and fingers crossed we will get the roof on next week. I say fingers crossed as first of all the authorities put a temporary moratorium on all building in the village ... but we have sorted that out.. and we ran out of water in the well and the truck that came to deliver more broke down halfway up the hill. Mohamed spent a fair bit of yesterday and no doubt today and tomorrow planning with the neighbour to lay a pipe from the irrigation channel that has been bringing water to the village from one of the mountain springs and they are off to buy the pump and pipes today. If it works it means we will have a fairly reliable supply of free water to top up our wells. Our neighbour desperately needs the water as they are just starting to build another house.