{"id":1423,"date":"2011-11-10T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2011-11-10T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:40:39","slug":"ive-named-the-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"I’ve named the donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve stopped thinking about the dead cat….damn!<\/p>\n

As promised, Dolores met me in Pontenova at nine o’clock this morning to assist me in trying to buy an angle grinder and a pipe terminator so that I can ensure that the donkeys water supply is re-connected, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n

After a quick coffee we headed straight for the local hardware store (ferreter\u00eda in Spanish which is a much better word). On arrival I wasn’t hopeful, it was the size of a corner shop but stacked high with everything a farmer could possibly want to buy.<\/p>\n

The proprietor didn’t have the ‘pipe stop’ but the angle grinder request put a big grin on his face. From under the counter he produced out the smallest angle grinder you could imagine. It was though it had been thrown from a Christmas cracker and while I am sure it could manage a manicure, it wasn’t going to sort out my milking stalls. I shook my head and he disappeared.<\/p>\n

A minute later he emerged with a box the size of a coffin, opened it, and we all gasped as he showed me the largest angle-grinder I have ever seen in my life. It was an angle-grinder of the giants and would have been perfect had I just been given the contract to demolish the Eiffel Tower<\/a>. I shook my head again and asked if there was anything in between. It was his turn to shake his head and we left empty handed.<\/p>\n

The second ferreter\u00eda in Pontenova was closed, not due to open until 9:55, which is the oddest opening time I have seen advertised on any shop door. In the end I settled for a ‘pipe stop’ from the plumbers which cost me 44 cents.<\/p>\n

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Insulation and roof panels next<\/p><\/div>\n

The house is still progressing a treat with the old beams, now cleaned and painted with a coat of protection, installed and starting to support the new roof frame. I left as it was starting to get gloomy but half expect that when I get up to the house in the morning that they will have finished.<\/p>\n

Two donated apple cores have caused the donkey to become my new friend. He now comes running when he sees me or the Land Rover and I feel gutted when I don’t have anything for him. After he was usurped from the barn by the building works Carlos has built him a new shelter under the old cabazo (grain store) out the back of the house, but it doesn’t look particularly sturdy or weatherproof.<\/p>\n

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The donkeys new home<\/p><\/div>\n

If I am going to end up buying him apples, I’ve decided that the donkey should have a name (the agreed policy is not to name things which Carlos intends to make into sausages). I have settled on Enrique (after Enrique Iglesias<\/a>) as whenever he opens his mouth, he makes a god-awful noise that is impossible to listen to without pulling a face like you’ve been forced to suck a lemon.<\/p>\n

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Enrique<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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