Hot for the holidaymakers...

My parents and my niece arrived here on Monday, and it's been such a hot week that they've spent most of the time by the pool so far. With temperatures in the high thirties, it's quite a contrast to the cooler, rainy weather that they left behind in Scotland. It's been a real blessing to have a big swimming pool to ourselves every morning. That's happened because my friends are attending Spanish classes for a few weeks, and so we're going round to their house every morning to feed the chickens, to check that the dog's doing okay (I'm relieved to see that her eye seems to be improving all the time - see 7th July) and, of course, to cool off in the pool. My niece spends hours in the water every day, and even my Mum swims more than a hundred lengths whenever we go there. Dad's also been enjoying cooling off in the water; it's the first time he's been swimming since having those brain operations at the end of last year, and so it's nice that he can just pop in and out for a short dip when he feels like it.