Adverse weather conditions stops play!!!!!!!

Phew we are struggling here in Portugal with the extreme heatwave and the forecast is predicting there is no let up until after the weekend when the temperature might just fall below 30 degrees! We have just nipped down to the builder's merchants for cement and the temperature in the van showed 40.5 celcius!!

Now the big orange/lemon tree in the front garden has been severely cut back it is offering us no shade and we are finding it impossible to continue working on laying the patio much later than 10.30 in the morning until after 6pm. We have been out this morning trying to buy a garden sail canopy to put up to shade us but the only outlet we could find selling them is out of stock! For the first time ever I think we will find ourselves watching daytime t.v. just to hide from the sun, so we are thankful the Olympic Games is about to begin. Never, ever thought we would be saying we are jealous of the british weather!!!!!! (Only joking!!!!) That will soon change though as we are eagerly awaiting the delivery of a quadbike from Lisbon so when we have possession of the quad we are downing tools and escaping the workhouse (workgarden in our case) and heading for the river beaches and seeking out some of the lovely villages that we are keen to explore.

The photo shows part of the patio we are working on, laying the stone and the tiled the concrete base for the pergola in traddional portuguese tiles. By the way the other photo shows me at work in my newly acquired skill as a brickie's lacky!!! (bad career move I know!)