A busy Monday morning

We were in Yator this Monday morning helping friends sort out some upstairs rooms. Their house, along with most of the village, is very old and the plaster in some rooms needs a bit of work....this involves the guys chiselling off all the old render with large electric chisels, with us ladies shovelling the rubble into buckets, over the balcony and down to the skip in the Plaza by wheelbarrow - thanks to Antonio for lending the barrow.

Yator is normally a very tranquil village, but on Monday morning a JCB was up and down their narrow street sorting out a water mains problem (the water had been off since Sunday at midday and didn't come back on till Monday 1pm) then there were the 2 bread delivery vans and to add to the traffic, a van arrived with a generator/knife grinder in the back. He tried to park in the space we needed while the skip was being delivered then moved but blocked the panaderia - eventually he found a space out of everyone's way. Most of the daily delivery vans have a set way of letting you know they've arrived, basically they lean on their horns as they enter the village, drive around leaning on their horns and park, leaning on their horns!! Doesn't matter if it's the bread, fish, frozen or veg man, always the same. But the knife grinder had a musical whistle and one of the guys went off walking around playing a tune. It got a bit much after a couple of hours, but by then all the scythes and kitchen knives were sharpened and the water was back on - the JCB had gone and normal quiet village life resumed.