Next door

John who bought the house next door as a holiday home for him and his partner Margaret has had to sell it. He had a car import business in the south of England which was running into trouble at the end of last year. He tried to sell his house in the UK so that he could keep the house in Spain but the market in the UK was very sluggish. He ended up selling all the cars he had in stock just to make ends meet. Anyway he has a buyer for his house here in Spain and has reluctantly come over to finalise the sale.

We've been round there a few times just to make sure that everything was alright. We even tidied up the mess that the pool people had left. The pool itself had stagnant water in the bottom but was OK. Now he tells me there are mosquito larvae in it. Let's hope the new owners move in pretty fast and get it cleaned up. The last thing we need is a plague of mosquitos next door to us.