Our fifth Portuguese lesson and the hardest one yet,
obviously: I’m actually convinced that we’re attending an intensive course and
not a beginner’s!
After class we helped Pam and Mark buy rugs and throws from
my favourite shop in Castelo Branco ‘A Loja de Gato Preto’ (The shop of the
black cat); I’m actually quite good at helping someone else spend their money,
especially as they have such lovely things in there.
Then we went to look for a ‘Rayburn’ type cooker; all the
shops seem to have them in at the moment but they are mostly rather tinny,
flimsy and poorly made. Last week we saw a couple we rather liked in
Bricomarche but they had both been reserved; Pam said there were some in Agriloga
so we went to look and were quite taken with one that cost 1500€
(which is a really good price, but we didn’t really want to spend that much).
We went to Bricomarche, and the ones we had liked were gone but this assistant
came up to us and said (in Portuguese) that they would be having one or two
delivered in the next couple of days so if we wanted to pay for it we could
reserve one (how did he know? I think he got us mixed up with Pam and Mark as
they had enquired when new ones were coming in – we don’t look alike but we’re
often seen together) – anyway we did, 599€ (approx. £480) and a saving
of 900€
on the one we had been contemplating (that was decisive, no mulling it
over, we just went for it!) and I’m so excited.
We went to Mark and Glenn’s to pick up some scaffold tower,
so Brett can render the top of the walls; we stayed for dinner.
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