Holiday Hold Up

If things had gone according to plan, I would be at this very moment walking the streets of Dublin but sometimes even the best laid plans take funny turns. We have postponed our trip for four days due to my mother-in-law's carer having to go into hospital which meant we had to find and interview some new people for the job. Fortunately, we've just about got it sorted...and hopefully we will be able to go on Saturday. We will be leaving one state of family-affairs here to meet with another
state of family affairs in Ireland...luckily though, we have also included a family-free week in the wilds of Andalucia where we get to steep ourselves in the fascinating moor culture and sip Tio Pepe jerez at the same time, not to mention clicking fingers to the beat of flamenco...can't wait. : )

We have been lucky in getting some friends of friends to stay and look after our dogs and house and farm-sit. It is a relief that Páidi, our aging semi-husky doesn't have to be co-oped up in a kennels. The first question Antonio asked was 'where do you keep your cleaning material?' - I get the feeling, he'll be keeping the place spick-er and span-er than we do! Fingers crossed.