The coast and sierras of Andalucia were all shrouded in cloud and visited by heavy rain through last night and most of today. I drove up to Alhaurin on roads awash with water in many stretches. There's even some water in the normally dry river beds hereabouts today. Even so the usual twenty odd worshippers were present for the Eucharist, and half for them stayed for a coffee in the bar nearby after. Among the congregation was a retired priest and his wife from Felixstowe, near where Eddie and Anne live. They are staying for the next couple of months.
After a late lunch, Jim took me to visit 95 year old Peachy and give her Communion. She lives in a top floor apartment in Torreblanca, fifteen minutes walk from church. She's lived in this area for over forty years and remembers how it was before urbanisation, when there were sand dunes behind the beach at Los Boliches, not tower blocks. She's housebound now, but still spirited and alert, full of good humour and appreciative of a visit from someone other than her carers.
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