Sorry no blogs, we have been away .......

Hi folks, We are now back at home and ready to resume where we left off!!! We have been back to the U.K. to pick up a V.I.P (my mother) to be our first guest in our new home. After a well deserved little holiday and the pleasure of showing mum around and looking after her (unfortunately we picked up a chest infections but now on the mend) we have decided to spend the summer months outside where we can concentrate on painting the exterior of the house and getting the garden into some kind of order!!! The guest bedroom was completed on time, and is just lacking a few soft furnishings and pictures, etc., to finish it off. On our way back from Faro we stopped off at a huge store to pick up some items as locally we don't have as much choice, so took advantage of being in that area and will be putting the drill to some use now to display the new fittings. Here is a photo of the guest room and hopefully will soon be posting pictures on the progress of our exterior restoration. The weather is excellent, full sun and hot so we will be able to crack on with our work.

Whilst back in the U.K. we sadly missed our village's annual Cherry Festival (our village is famous for its cherry trees) but we are enjoying eating the cherries being given to us by our friends. On our first evening back we strolled down to our village cafe bar and was invited back to a friend's wine cellar where we enjoyed eating bread and cheese and drinking some lovely home-made red wine, had a jolly sing-song with a couple of friends playing an accorddian and mouthorgan (they do a version of rapping between each other! which is always a laugh) and that was before we had dinner at home!!!!