ONE SIDE OF ROOF COMPLETED

20th June

Happy Birthday Mrs Brown!!!!

We woke up to blue skies and sunshine, again (Ha ha!!!!); this means Louis's hay is drying out nicely again (phew, why do we feel responsible for it?), every morning we have to remember to open the gate just in case he turns up, it'll be a relief once he's baled it and taken it away.

12.10p.m Hoorah, half a roof completed!!!

It looks very tidy, as they say in Wales. I'm hoping the second side shouldn't take as long as we've already worked out how to do it.

I'm expecting a parcel from the UK, it's being delivered to a PO Box inside the Post Office in Penamacor; it has a tracking number so today I looked to see where it was, the information read:

A delivery was attempted for your item with reference RJ830206521GB in PORTUGAL before 09:01 on 20/06/13.

If redelivery or collection is unsuccessful, the item will be returned to the UK

The Post Office opens at 9.00 a.m. do these people not have brains? How can they attempt to deliver it to a Post Box when the Post Office is shut? And how on earth do I get my parcel? Frustrated!!!!! Tomorrow I'm going to the Post Office to try to sort it out, this will be a real test of my Portuguese communication skills!

This evening we saw Louis baling the hay on his little plot of land; this evening, when we walked to shut the gate, his tractor and baler was parked inside our quinta, so he's obviously going to bale tomorrow.