Rained a bit.....

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mickrick

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180 months

Tuesday 4th May 2010
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in the Islands yesterday. And boy did we have some wind last night! yikes

ScoobieWRX

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233 months

Thursday 13th May 2010
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Is that due to the rich cuisine? scratchchin

mickrick

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180 months

Thursday 13th May 2010
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Mmm...must admit, the frito Mallorquin and a bottle of bubble bath makes for a great DIY jaccuzi rolleyes

Here's what the road outside my apartment looked like. Yes, it is running into the lake!





Massive hailstones in Pollensa this afternoon. Sunshine in Alcudia. I find the weather bizzare for this time of year. confused

ScoobieWRX

4,863 posts

233 months

Thursday 13th May 2010
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I'd have expected this time of the year for you to be rosting your cojones off.
Oh well...At least you can get a free shower hehe

Is it warm though despite the torrent??

mickrick

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180 months

Friday 14th May 2010
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15 degrees, and thunderstorms.

Summer has usualy started by now. It was 28 degrees the other day, now 15. I've never known the weather to be this unsettled in May.

I don't know whether to get my legs out or not! I should be in shorts by now.

P924

1,272 posts

189 months

Sunday 16th May 2010
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Have you lost any roads MickRick?

Quite a few have disappeared around here. Normally the ones with streams/rivers running alongside or underneath. The excess water has just washed them away from below.

Diag

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175 months

Sunday 16th May 2010
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A few people around here have lost land, swinmming pools etc. Loads of minor land slides over the last few months. One house that I have heard of has been condemed on sierra Gorda.

Think I will sell firewood and umbrellas next winter. smile

ScoobieWRX

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233 months

Sunday 16th May 2010
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I'm sorry to hear you've had so much rain. frown

I hope it hasn't affected too many of you too adversely.

so called

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216 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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Sorry all, summer is waiting till I arrive in June. biggrin

cabbron

416 posts

224 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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nope its here now,24 yesterday and today and supposedly all week.

mickrick

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180 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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Yes! Got some varnish on today. And burnt my head! headache
Note to myself....take a hat tomorrow.........

ScoobieWRX

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233 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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Glad to hear the sun is shining again. Spain just isn't Spain without the sun.
My bones could do with some of that. yes

so called

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216 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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cabbron said:
nope its here now,24 yesterday and today and supposedly all week.
OK but please dont use it all up before late June.

cabbron

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224 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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okey dokey but i think there will be plenty to go round now for a few months! blatting will soon have to be done early morn or late evening,it gets so hot we can even run cheaper less sticky tyres here lol.

ScoobieWRX

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233 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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Surely in the heat of the day your P&J will be tucked up in bed having a siesta while you use your badly bruised and severely beaten 15yr old Seat Ibiza for trips to the shops.

Doesn't everyone out there have one of those. hehe

Kneetrembler

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209 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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ScoobieWRX said:
Surely in the heat of the day your P&J will be tucked up in bed having a siesta while you use your badly bruised and severely beaten 15yr old Seat Ibiza for trips to the shops.

Doesn't everyone out there have one of those. hehe
Maybe not for too much longer if Spanish workers /management don't work out how to make money now that VW have given them 5 yrs to turn the business around or be closed down.

ScoobieWRX

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Wednesday 19th May 2010
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I think it's more like VW saying.....Look in reality we're shutting you down whatever happens but at least we've told you 5yrs ahead of time. That way we (VW) can have a bigger slice of the pie.

The funeral bell tolls for another car manufacturer. The spanish though are very proud of their heritage and SEAT is part of that. I can't see VW necessarily selling more cars in Spain as a result as the spanish mentality is to never forget. I don't know for sure but are SEAT's cheaper to buy in Spain than VW's.

Let's face it, the spanish aren't rolling around in cash at the mo and it will take a good 5yrs+ for Spain to get back on it's feet. Maybe that's what VW are banking on.

Poor SEAT frown

Kneetrembler

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209 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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ScoobieWRX said:
I think it's more like VW saying.....Look in reality we're shutting you down whatever happens but at least we've told you 5yrs ahead of time. That way we (VW) can have a bigger slice of the pie.

The funeral bell tolls for another car manufacturer. The spanish though are very proud of their heritage and SEAT is part of that. I can't see VW necessarily selling more cars in Spain as a result as the spanish mentality is to never forget. I don't know for sure but are SEAT's cheaper to buy in Spain than VW's.

Let's face it, the spanish aren't rolling around in cash at the mo and it will take a good 5yrs+ for Spain to get back on it's feet. Maybe that's what VW are banking on.

Poor SEAT frown
I don'tknow if buying a Seat in Spain is cheaper than anywhere else or not, but in other ways it is such as the Seat/Older Audi A4 re badged, but I don't think the Spanish are as patriotic as the French with cars.

ScoobieWRX

4,863 posts

233 months

Wednesday 19th May 2010
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Maybe it's just me but as a spaniard i am proud that my country has it's own make of vehicle, manufactured in Spain and sold worlwide. Admitedly they are basically german parts derived but that does make them utterly reliable and they do exactly what it says on the tin.
Nothing there not to be proud of biggrin

As for the French, they are indeed fanatical about a lot of things like cooking, wine, and football, and equally i have no doubt they are very proud of having not one but three national motor car manufacturers.

However, having said all that it doesn't make french cars any good does it. hehe