We have been busy ...................!!!!!!

Hi folks, sorry we haven't updated blog recently but we have had a busy time schedule. We had a delivery date for the sofa and chest freezer for the 12th April but the week before the store rang to say they could deliver that day. Hey ho, no chance! we hadn't even laid the floor tiles, in fact we hadn't got any even though they had been on order for 3 weeks, they still hadn't arrived. So off we went to find a tile warehouse in Castelo Branco so we could choose some and bring them back with us. We did get lucky and bought the tiles which meant we could start laying them 4 days before delivery date. We chose a terracotta tile for a border and a plain cream for the inset. As delivery day approached we were still grouting the last half of the room, but time waits for no man so we had to grin and bear while the delivery men put together the sofa (walking on my wet grouted tiles which hadn't even been wiped clean). At the end of the day it was all worth it because after four weeks of sitting on a naff old sofa when the old bones are creaking it was bliss to be able to put the old pins up and relax in comfort!

Our next mission was to go and buy the TV. Very easy, went into store and walked out with new T.V. Lovely, lovely, can now lozz on our new sofa and watch the T.V. Now, bored with the five portuguese channels we arranged for the satellite man to come so we could have english t.v. channels through freeview. Unfortunately, (for us) Portugal changed over from analogue to digital on the 26 April and we have to wait now till first week of May to have satellite installed. So, nice new sofa and t.v. but from yesterday, no signal means no telly!!!!! We are now addicted to watching the logs burn on the fire for entertainment!!!

__ Rob got lucky 2 nights ago (Portuguese Bank Holiday) and was at 8.30 pm invited to a party (men only). Off he trotted with my new umbrella (it was pouring with rain) and came back looking very happy. The party was in a local man's wine cellar where wine was flowing freely and the food prepared by his wife was home roasted barbecued pork, home-made bread and home-produced goat's cheese. The entertainment was the guests singing and playing accordians and various percussion instruments. He came home a happy chappy and had made lots of new friends.