Quest for Contact Lens Cleaner

Yesterday we had that light rain that really wets you, until about 12.30 hours, then the sun appeared occasionally, but it remained pretty overcast most of the day. We went to Tabua to do some shopping, but the main mission was to find contact lens cleaner. We'd already tried a farmacia and were told that we would need to find an optician in one of the towns. Tabua seems to be the optician capital, as we spotted at least three different ones.

Anyway, you can imagine what it was like with our terrible Portugese and the girl behind the counter didn't speak English. We managed to indicate that we wanted cleaner for the contact lenses but there are different types of cleaner for different types of lenses. I was trying to tell her my lenses were hard, or "duro", and she was looking puzzled, wondering if they were flexible lenses (soft?). Jon rapped his knuckles on the counter, saying "hard...hard" and I don't know if it was that, or his charming smile, but eventually she smiled, and gave a gentle sway of the hips, as if the penny had dropped. On the box they are described as "rigidas permeaveis ao gas" so that should make it easier next time (sure). For a 120ml bottle that does everything like cleans, disinfects, neutralises etc, we paid 11 euros that is a lot more expensive than Asda's £4.99 jobby we normally buy.

Our neighbours have had babies...they're so cute leaping around the field like they're demented or being chased by wasps. There are two black lambs and two white ones. We tried to capture them on a short movie yesterday they were so hilarious, but unfortunately there was too much light, but we will persevere...

Mouse free zone here........for now. Cat asleep on balcony, as usual.