MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

15.12.08

I will be unable to update my blog for a little while but will be back in the new year!
In the meantime, have a fantastic Christmas and I hope all your hopes and dreams come true in the new year. Things can only get better so keep positive and treat people the way you expect to be treated yourselves!
And most importantly... smile (unlike me, here!!)!
Love,
Iberian Bird
xxx

The Walk In Wardrobe

15.12.08

I'm really excited to finally be able to tell you about a fabulous event that is being organised in the Algarve in February!
The Walk In Wardrobe was the brainchild of a group of friends (including me, of course!) who had watched Twiggy's Frock Exchange on TV a few months ago and thought 'why don't we do that?!'... so we decided to!
The event is taking place on February 7th, from 10am to 2pm at the Hotel Garbe in Armação de Pêra, who has kindly offered the use of the Raj Restaurant free of charge, as the event is in aid of charity. We have chosen the Lar Bom Samaritano children's home in Alvor. Tickets for the event cost 10 euros each - all of which will be donated to the home.
The purpose of the event is for ladies to get together and swish. Sound ominous? Worry not... swishing is simply the exchange of clothes! Great huh?
All we ask is for you to bring at least two items of clothing (or accessories) that you would be proud to pass on, and then you can choose anything from the hundreds of items that will be availble for swapping!
We are also organising a fantastic raffle with some lovely girlie prizes!! It's going to be the ultimate girlie day!
We have our own blog and email address:
http://www.thealgarvewalkinwardrobe.blogspot.com/
thewalkinwardrobe@hotmail.com
If you would like a ticket, check out the blog (it's actually in my followers list to the right) or simply send an email to confirm your place. Places are limited so book soon!

Withdrawal symptoms

6.12.08

You never realise just how much you rely on the internet until you lose it. That's what happened to me last week. I switched on the laptop and opened Explorer and then... nothing. I switched it off and on again... nothing. 'That's odd', I thought.
And then I was summoned to dinner by hubby (it's great being married to someone who does most of the cooking!), and by the time we'd eaten, I'd forgotten all about the computer. It wasn't until the following evening that I tried connecting again and realised we were offline. Our landline had also been affected.
I rang Telecom and they said we would be fixed within a day. It took a week. Typical.
Almost every night, there was something I wanted to check online for, but couldn't, obviously. Also, I was so conscious of not updating my blog... that was the worse thing. It made me realise that I had become quite dependent on my twice weekly blog updates. It was actually making me a bit irritable!
Fortunately we are now back up and running. It appears that we had a faulty line. When Telecom had initially installed the line, they had not connected it properly, meaning we'd had a dodgy line for nearly four years! Oh well... at least it's fixed now. Let's hope it doesn't happen again or I'll be getting withdrawal symptoms.
Talking of withdrawal symptoms... hubby has been suffering terribly with them. All week we have had terribe weather. It's been freezing cold and has rained pretty much all the time - well, every time that he was able to go out on his motorbike that is. He's been moaning and complaining about it, standing staring out at the window as if urging the sun to shine. I got so fed up with it, I practically forced him out this afternoon. "Just go out on your cross bike and get muddy, for god's sake. As long as you wear waterproof clothes, you'll be fine", I said to him, as I shoved him out the door. It's not that I wanted a bit of time to myself, of course....
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