The last few days have been really hot and still; so I’ve dug out the “Windscoop” my family gave us as a leaving present. This funnels any breeze in through one of the hatches to provide movement of air down below. In addition to the awning that Chris made up river it really helps keeps thing reasonably OK!!! Typically, the first day I put it up the wind came up and forced me to take it down as it was getting almost chilly and then (surprise surprise) within a short time the wind died away!! Hey ho that’s life!!!
It was Chris’s birthday last week so we had a day off and went out for a lovely Chinese meal at lunchtime – just as well we’d decided not to do anything! The restaurant came highly recommended and lived up to it’s reputation – a set meal for 7.50E and it was really plenty; even for us!
It’s getting a bit too hot to work in the afternoons now and you all know how good we are at mornings!!! Still, we are moving on slowly. The life raft is currently being serviced – we were boarded up river by the GNR (Portugese river police) and they put us in their little black book as the certificate for the life raft had expired and we have to show a new one before we leave. I’m not quite sure what they could do if we don’t but it’s worth doing anyway! It was quite an experience – they come up river in what looks like a small warship and then visit the boats in a large rib (big enough for about 10 people!) looking at the ships papers and our passports and checking that the flares, fire extinguishers and life raft are still in date. They can fine on the spot but luckily, I think that as everything else was OK, they did not fine us. They were very pleasant but certainly looked intimidating with guns and very military-style uniforms!
I have finally discovered how to compress & resize photos!!
Recently, I have found the site very slow to update and I think it could be that the galleries have got sa bit too large so I am going to rationalise and compress the pictures of the old ones. The signal is not always brilliant and my small laptop is not that fast anyway so while we are in the marina I can take advantage of the local cyber café and use their computers which enable me to manipulate things more easily.
From now on I hope to load the pics in the galleries at full size and after a while I’ll then compress & rationalise them. This hopefully will help the speed without too much difference to how it all looks!!
All this, of course, this leaves Chris free to do all the hard work on the boat!!!
It was Chris’s birthday last week so we had a day off and went out for a lovely Chinese meal at lunchtime – just as well we’d decided not to do anything! The restaurant came highly recommended and lived up to it’s reputation – a set meal for 7.50E and it was really plenty; even for us!
It’s getting a bit too hot to work in the afternoons now and you all know how good we are at mornings!!! Still, we are moving on slowly. The life raft is currently being serviced – we were boarded up river by the GNR (Portugese river police) and they put us in their little black book as the certificate for the life raft had expired and we have to show a new one before we leave. I’m not quite sure what they could do if we don’t but it’s worth doing anyway! It was quite an experience – they come up river in what looks like a small warship and then visit the boats in a large rib (big enough for about 10 people!) looking at the ships papers and our passports and checking that the flares, fire extinguishers and life raft are still in date. They can fine on the spot but luckily, I think that as everything else was OK, they did not fine us. They were very pleasant but certainly looked intimidating with guns and very military-style uniforms!
I have finally discovered how to compress & resize photos!!
Recently, I have found the site very slow to update and I think it could be that the galleries have got sa bit too large so I am going to rationalise and compress the pictures of the old ones. The signal is not always brilliant and my small laptop is not that fast anyway so while we are in the marina I can take advantage of the local cyber café and use their computers which enable me to manipulate things more easily.
From now on I hope to load the pics in the galleries at full size and after a while I’ll then compress & rationalise them. This hopefully will help the speed without too much difference to how it all looks!!
All this, of course, this leaves Chris free to do all the hard work on the boat!!!