91. Something old, nothing new

COSTA DA CAPARICA - LISBON - PORTUGAL  

Quite proud of this charger actually

Made a start on replacing the Giantavan's now missing tail lights and discovered to my horror, working back up the line, that the brake light trailer circuit isn't working on the Disco plug - might keep that one to myself! The process of working this out flattened the Disco's battery which, luckily, was discovered by Roman when he wasn't able to electrically adjust the driving seat to his optimal position prior to embarking on an imaginary off-road expedition which normally involves a great deal of loud verbal engine noise, verbal honking and commentary. The Giantavan spewed up a battery charger so all was saved. 

Dairy time

Dairy time!

Roman was delighted to see a gardener arrive on a tractor to rake leaves (no leaf blower, thank goodness) so, while the others pressed on with their diaries he drove the tractor. The children's diary writing involves constant research on this blog by me, in order to answer questions like what did we do on November the twenty second? Ideally they would look it up themselves but I don't want my musings to taint their creative flow so, to date, they have not read this blog so I am, by default, the unreliable reference resource that can't remember exactly what they did, ate or what video they watched. Apparently my blog is "useless".

Out with our old

In with someone else's old

Christmas is rapidly approaching and my normal Christmas project of trying to keep expenditure within an ill-defined, ever expanding limit, has been complicated by a pressing volumetric concern. I am hoping that now I have shared this concern with you it is a problem halved. Seeing Mary on her lovely bike made Audrey ridiculous on her little bike so time to shuffle bikes and drop one off the bottom.  Iris is already on Ashley's (ex Link colleague and all round good bloke) old bike so Fyfe was in line.  Didn't want to dump Audrey's bike and found that Cash Converters are here. Jacqueline was keen to brave Lisbon's shops again so off we went, dropping Jacqueline and Iris en-route. 

Turns out Cash Converters has all sorts of things I didn't know we needed including Christmas roller skates for Audrey and Roman, a new (old) waterproof  Christmas camera for Roman and a heap of DVDs ranging from ten cents each to one euro. Quick sprint as they closed to a money machine when we discovered they don't accept credit cards from non EU countries. Fyfe is absolutely ecstatic about his new Christmas bike and bought a seat at the supermarket - treat em mean to keep em keen!