Wednesday Algarve Geriatric Strollers The 2020's

Well well, John very kindly took the pressure off me this week, by posting his draft before I even started, so the Leader and Vanguard goes to him. Our WAGS status remains uncertain. We have been called the WAGS Irregulars and the WAGS Occasionals, even although our turn-out during “these troubled times” (to use the BBC´s over-worked cliché) has in fact been remarkably consistent. Why we do it, we don´t even know; perhaps we should be called the WAGS Irrationals. Anyway, last week, we thought that we had come some way towards regaining our full respectability when Rod condescended to join us and we thought that the Inner Circle would now consider re-admitting us. Their deliberations, no doubt, continue; they cannot be rushed. And then this week we learned that Rod now prefers a date with his dentist to a walk with us. Ah well! Be that as it may, the usual four of us met up at Poço Frito´s Café Martins at the earlier hour of 7.30 am, we being mindful of the heat ...

                      I held out for a couple of days since Wednesday, wondering if one of the more active walker/bloggers might kick off this blog, but no. I am doomed to declare my hand before the responses come in.      First item on the agenda was a service oil change for the Ford prior to IPO Test booked for Thursday. The Ford had been imploring me to change the oil via dashboard messages for about a week, and it was becoming tiresome. Normally I would buy the oil and filter, and sort this myself, but I happened to be at Radio Popular in Portimao on another mission on Monday, and as it was next door to Roady, I went there to get the oil and filter. I saw a sign stating that if I bought the oil there, they would change it for €14.95, which seemed reasonable, given the mess and sweat involved in DIY.     Made an appointment which was apparently only available on Wednesday at 9am, and we arrive...