5th June
Well our furniture arrived 'safely'; I say that in inverted
commas as one chair had two legs off and a cupboard had a door broken off -
fortunately we're not too precious about our possessions, they will mend and be
fine.
Ian, the removal man, had forgotten to bring the keys, to
the padlocks on his trailer, so they had to be opened with a hammer! Then we
thought that the back doors on his transit wouldn't open and that we'd have to
try to manoeuvre the dresser base out through
the side door, but with a bit of persuasion they opened - it was all rather
chaotic (but, as I keep saying, his vehicles got down our track).
Brett and Mark went off to order the wood for our roof and
they came across Ian blocking the road ........... on his way back down our
track he had scraped his trailer along a stone wall and had only just bothered
to stop to fix it - he'd practically ripped his tailgate off!
We went back to Pam and Mark's for lunch; mainly because I
wanted to see their new marble worktop - it's lovely and was really cheap. It's
called rose marble and is threaded with a pink/brown/orange colour; it's made up from two pieces of marble (L
shaped) approx 2m and 3m, and cost 160€, what would it have cost in the UK?
On Friday we are going to help P & M put up their second
teepee -should be interesting! They have built fabulous platforms to stand them
on.
This weekend Pam and I are going to a festival; Salva a
Terra (Save the Earth), in Idanha a Nova, a nearby village where lots of things
take place, last year it hosted the Boom Festival. Brett doesn't want to go,
it's not really his thing and it's rather expensive, 17€ to get in.
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