Sun creeping in. Forgot to add whizz kid computer (tall Spanish version of nerd) couldn't get fax to talk to computer either. So it wasn't just technologically-challenged granny; who only resents having wasted all those days on it. (Beloved claims her fault for being obsessional...) Fax should be returned. Problem is: Beloved has thrown away box....Ideas??

Search on net for animal welfare associations in Spain comes up with very little except objections to bull-fighting and protests in Andalucia because it has no laws against ill-treatment of dogs or any other animals. Nothing whatsoever is to be found in Canaries.

Distraction strategies now all exhausted. To work.