About Me

We moved out to Portugal to live a frugal but better , simpler and peaceful life, our house is a very basic, semi ruin, up in the hills outside Figueiro Dos Vinhos, where we work our land, enjoy life with each other and our dogs, and hope to make the smallest carbon footprint we can,

Wednesday 5 January 2011

Fog Fog Fog...

Well the weather at the moment is a tad strange... its very mild, at times in the mid 50s.. but the last two days we've not been able to see a hand in front of our faces. Now we often get fog here, the low cloud, misty morning type stuff... but this has been real thick, I cant see where Im going type stuff... and its stayed all day.
We actually have guests staying at the moment, looking at property in the area, and I breezily said yesterday morning....  "oh this wont last after 10ish... it never does"..  hehehe its still here now... Luckily they are nice and she hasnt held it against me...
But its making life difficult for them as they want a place with a great view, and with this fog, cant see a damn thing... oh well hopefully things will improve...

Obviously this has curtailed our outside work a bit as its a bit too mild to where heavy waterproofs to work in, as you just sweat like mad, but then if you dont, this misty foggy stuff soon soaks you through... so we've been inside, Rik now starting to go a little stir crazy... I am enjoying relaxing by the fire, reading and cooking... that is when he's not driving me nuts wandering around huffing and being bored.... His problem is he doesnt read.... he can of course, he likes workshop manuals and stuff like that... but to relax with a good book... no... he just cant and doesnt see the point... to him, time spent sat reading a good book is time wasted when you could be working on something useful..... damn Philistine!