No sooner than the schoolkids have been unleashed upon the village for the summer then the school resounds to the sound of a cement mixer.

Yes, the playground at Colegio Las Gaviotas is getting a new surface, thanks to a 100,000-euro budget. A local construction company, Chopi, landed the contract.

The work is much needed because a rain cloud need only peer over the horizon and the schoolyard floods.

The project was approved at a meeting of the school board (parents, teachers and pupil representatives) with everybody voting in favour – pity our precious politicians couldn’t learn something from this.

Anyway, it’s not only a case of resurfacing, obviously, but sorting out the rain drains, so you don’t have to do a ‘Francis Chichester’ to cross the puddle to drop your kids off.

One interesting point; First Councillor Ruiz Joya pointed out that the reason that the puddles formed was because the rain drains had become blocked by the gravel used to surface the school yard…

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)