village party

The party was great, I shouldn't be such a misanthrope. I was surrounded by people I know well and everyone I met was very friendly. The meal was a very big barbecue, for which, of course, special permission has to be sought, though being in the middle of a village of stone houses there was not much danger of fire. (There have been 3 very big fires in Orense this last week.) I was surprised that there was no salad to go with the meat, in a village like this, where everyone has too many lettuce and tomatoes it would hve been easy to provide, I would happily have provided tomatoes! Afterwards there was music and dancing in the square, we were charged €10 each for the evening, which really makes me wonder where the money goes for the villge Fiesta in July, the first time I was charged €80 and this year €30, but on both occasions there was nothing of note, just lots of fire crackers and some music!
I asked Tina about the tomatoes but it was not her, so God knows who thinks I need tomatoes, I can't give them back so I'll have to find a use for them, not easy when I am only just managing to keep up with my own. It must be a lesson to me to lock my front door when I go for a shower, I do try and remember.