Palmero

I waited in all Friday but the Palmero didn't arrive, I was a bit fed up, and thinking this is typical of workmen in Spain. When he arrived lunchtime Saturday he explained, he had taken his family to the ferrier in Fuengirola on Thursday evening, where his seven year old son had got too close to one of the horses and it kicked out and caught his leg. The Palmero asked a man next to him with a mobile phone to call an ambulance but the guy refused. I asked him was it 'el hombre ingles', no he said 'espaniol'. I was glad it was not an english man who had refused help but one of his own country men. I guess there are some not nice people everywhere. Eventually someone helped and the child was taken to hospital. He said when he finished the palm tree he was going home to shower, then straight into Malaga where the little boy was due to have an operation on his leg. I think that will be one ferrier they will never forget.