Planet Ruby Starrs

Final kitchen update...... We continue to redecorate - this is the biggest benefit of lockdown - we certainly wouldn't have got so much of our house sorted if we had not have had this time at home plus the money we didn't spend on our planned South America trip. Instead we have a completely transformed living room, bedroom and now a finished kitchen - we finally had the new laminate floor laid last week and we are so pleased with how it ties everything together and makes the room so much warmer.  The floor and the work surfaces really work well together - and stay quite neutral so if we ever decide to change the colours they should fit in long term - (if Dr Fred reads this he will leave me - I don't think changing colour is option right now if ever!!!) This is the kitchen now - when we came to look at the house I kind of lied to Dr Fred saying I could live with the kitchen - cream - if we could get rid of the floor to ceiling beige tiles - I would put up with everything els...

We had a long last day of the holidays... we got up early and took the ferry back to Fuerteventura, and then we had a walk on the dunes - its quite spectacular the way there is a great raft of serious golden sand and then it just stops and turns back into lava lava lava rubble.... the weather look like it was picking up again but it was just pretending.. as we neared the sea over the dunes the black cloud blackened, the wind roared and we made a dash back up to the car. There were quite a few goats scattered around the sands they didn't seem bothered by the weather - its probably nice when it rains for them. We stopped and had lunch and a look around Puerto De Rosario - not much there really, lots of cafes and industrial type ports...  We delivered the car back unscathed and then did a bit of people watching in the airport. The flight home was slightly longer then we expected as we had to do an emergency stop over somewhere in Portugal as a passenger became ill and needed...