A very happy Father’s day to all the daddies out there, those who arenew to the job, the old hands and of course those who have moved on from us – have a great day guys – you all rock👌
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Home and back to it…. for five weeks…
A quick 2 hour flight and the four of us were returned to Manchester where we were greeted by a huge line waiting to pass through passport control / border security. Lots of families arrived into the airport from other countries at the same time and when the kids are under 12, all the family passports are checked manually…
Charlie was also waiting for us and was sparkling clean after the valet team had washed and vacuumed the car while we were in the sunshine 👌
Daddy has cut the grass at both Turner Close and Kirkby Grange Farm, so the places both look lived in again – both places were looking rather overgrown sadly – although it has highlighted the need for a strummer, so once we get the deposit for the rental car back (€1200, then an order will be placed 🙂
Elliot has finished his homework with some help from mummy as he needed to bake a cake for his Wednesday night series – it smells fantastic – sadly we won’t be testing it for him as it is going into school in the morning.
Daddy has a couple of weeks of UK only travel so no flights for a couple of weeks.
The sunglasses that daddy bought on the way out to Majorca broke on day 6, so he will be taking them back to the departure lounge in Manchester T1 to see if they will do anything about it – fingers crossed.
We had a terrific time and have taken lots of photos so will try too figure out how best to pop them up on here for all to see in the coming days. Stay tuned… Portugal in 5 weeks 🇵🇹 😊
Majorca
We are staying in a lovely resort to the North East of the island called Cala Mesquida – sadly we encountered rain yesterday morning so decided to head out to Alcudia on a little road trip and wow – what a beautiful place Alcudia Old Town is…
We stayed for a lovely dinner in a small restaurant with seating on a walkway so we could watch the world go by. Alcudia seems to have many more English voices than we have heard elsewhere – mainly German in the resort and nearby locations it seems.
We enjoyed an ice cream on the way back to the car and Olly has a slush puppy (or a Spanish equivalent) that he promptly threw away – accordingly it was not a great equivalent…
We saw these a couple of nights ago in Cala Agulla – can be rented for €25 – sadly Olly doesn’t have a driving license so can’t get in one..
Finally, the poor little monkey has been up a few times in the night vomiting 🙁 so the beach day today has turned into a relaxing room day it seems.
Hopefully he is back to usual soon, oh and that none of the rest of us get the bug too….
Turner Close
Well, Turner Close is empty once again so we head down on Sunday to check out what work we need to do in order to put our best foot forward when it comes to selling the place.
We also took the brown leather bed back down there as it is simply too big for Elliot’s bedroom. We brought the cheap sofa bed back for him to try out although we suggested that he should use the spare room to sleep and then leave toys etc in his actual bedroom – he really did not want to do this. His first night on his new “bed” was last night and he said that the bed was comfortable but that it has a soft side and a hard side… 😂
Simon returned to TC this morning on the way back from the school run in order to sand down the filled holes (from photographs etc) and collect Vicky’s cardigan that she left yesterday.
It is now all ready for a lick of paint – we believe that we have all the right paints in the garage, just that we aren’t entirely sure which paints are for which rooms….
The deck has been deemed unsightly so it is going to get a fresh coat of grey paint in the next couple of weeks and we need to find a window doctor who can repair the conservatory window sill from when Hugo had a little chewing session 🙁
Otherwise, the house is in great shape and just waiting for the right family looking for a great house in the middle of a great location for families 🙂
Fingers crossed.
PC Support
Vicky noticed an £8.00 charge on the credit card a couple of months ago and simply assumed it was something that Simon had bought, questioned him about it and he didn’t recall what it was. It didn’t come up during filling in monthly expenses and so got forgotten about.
Then a couple of days ago Vicky noticed another such charge on the credit card so googled the company and it transpires it is a regular issue with people buying hardware from Curry’s or PC World.
It seems that they have an extra technical support option available on many of the things that they sell in store and that apparently they offer this support to unsuspecting punters at the time of tranascting the purchase.
When Simon rang the company today it became quickly obvious that this was for a DELL laptop that was purchased in advance of Christmas last year and that the charges started roughly one month later. Accordingly they give one month free of charge and because they have your payment details from the otiginal purchase, they can easily just crack on taking monthly payments from you. There is no official contract and it appears that often the sales guys in the tills simply automatically enroll customers in to this service without mentioning it – I guess they receive a nice little commission each time they “sell” the cover.
Well a ten minute call and we should be expecting the £40 back in 10 to 14 days and the “contract” is now cancelled.
Handy little earner that 🙁
Think we might never buy from Curry’s / PC World again !!!