In the green corner: El Senor Cucaracha – the second cockroach we have had ‘visit’ with us.
In the red corner: El Senor Malcolm with a secret weapon – a can of Raid.
Ding, ding – round one: El Senor Cucaracha is bobbing and weaving around the edge of the kitchen cabinets – El Senor Malcolm gives him a sharp left-hander shot with the can of Raid. Down goes Cucaracha but comes back fighting, legs pumping madly. Bam! El Senor Malcolm goes in with the second shot; Cucaracha is on his back and failing quickly. KNOCK OUT! El Senor Malcolm scoops him up and throws him over the balcony in triumph. Another one bites the dust! I wasn’t sure if anyone would appreciate a picture so I stood down from the photo op however am willing to consider any requests.
Remigio, the plumber (plomeria), came by today with an employee to fix our pipe. We are gradually working out MT (Mexican Time) – he says one hour, we extend that by an additional 1 or 2 hours and then the doorbell rings. The problem was not new to him – a lack of glue – as he has seen it in a number of buildings here. The employee gestured that he was going to get a harness (the pipe is in a service shaft that goes down the side of the building from the roof) and came back with a weathered piece of rope that was strung up on our palapa (this is Mexico, what else were you thinking?) and hey presto, job done. We paid him 300 pesos (~$25) which I think was good money for him and we decided was excellent money for us as I don’t think our travel insurance would cover Malcolm to hang off the side of a building. With all that excitement we had to spend the afternoon floating around in the pool…
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