We neither had pumpkins nor turnips so settled on marrow lanterns this year, camera batteries ran out again so we have no photos of the boys dressed up unfortunately. Thats the laundry basket in the background - my great photography :-(
The new woodburner works much better than the last one, so much so that the chimney pipe was glowing red hot yesterday, you can see in the photo that the pipe is blue-gold-silver like a motorbike exhaust now...it is much smaller than the Chinese one but far more efficient and we really have to be careful about how much wood we put on. We decided to move it to the corner of the room to get it further away from the sofa as Rowan nearly landed on the last one a few times doing sofa gymnastics. We now have two holes in our end wall and it is mostly raining too hard to cement them up just now so the old one is covered with choco-cracks cardboard and the new chimney pipe is bordered by thicker cardboard to close the hole up a bit. We bought an Hergom stove, according to the manual "To have an Hergom Lebena stove is the manifestation of an exeptional sense of quality." ... we have gone up in the world.
The rain stopped for a few hours today and we had a lovely walk by the river at Porto do Cabo the Consello have spent a fair whack building a new walk with wood and gravel paths over the marshy ground and Billy goat Gruff style bridges here and there.
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