We went into Castelo Branco to buy irrigation equipment (I’m fed up with watering with a leaking watering can!) and to pay the road tax on our truck (due next week, according to the cover note).
We bought 50m of 45mm hose (106€) this should get high pressure water to most of the vegetable garden; so we were on a high .................... then we went to the Mitsubishi showroom – it was shut down!!!! A new Mitsubishi office is in the Renault garage, but the guy we bought the truck from is on holiday.
We went to the finance office and tried to pay our road tax; the truck is still registered to Mitsubishi, but they said we had until the 28th August to pay (they didn’t seem to think it was a problem that we didn’t have it registered in our names yet) and I hope we don’t get stopped by the police again as the cover note definitely says we have only 60 days to pay the tax and that is the end of next week (but the finance office said no we had 90 days – I hope they’re right).
We bought a pool; not a big one, only 3m diameter and 76cm high. But it will cool us down and we don’t need to worry about filters and pumps etc (and it was only 34€95 < £28) – it will do until we have electricity and then we can get a proper one.
Our cooling systems are working quite well; the clay pot system has solid butter in it, it was liquid before it went in and the drinks down the well are really quite cold.
We were going to set up our irrigation system and fill our pool, when we got home, but Gary (and Betty) came round – he wants company. Brett went back with him, to help him put a lintel in place.
There was a fabulous sunset tonight; all reds, oranges, and yellows on a turquoise sky – I tried to paint it.
Sunset, our view from 'Camp'
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