2009 has got off to a pretty good start out here, the weather has been good and we have managed to get out on the bikes a bit. So the job list has suffered and just continues to get longer. From the things we have to do before we come home list we have insulated 1 bedroom are on with the second, painted half of the barrier posts not done any mortaring or sorted the knackered door. We have knocked a hole in the apotheki (outbuilding)wall so we can get to it from the garden instead of going round the front and down the lane. We have also been spreading the rubble from the internal walls around the ground where we park the car as it was getting a bit soggy.
The door saga continues as PVC doors out here are extortionate and it may well be that we bring one out here from the UK as there is a lot of difference in price. That will be an interesting sight - a six door car!!
I've been chatting a bit with a guy who has a workshop at the back of us, he keeps his olive oil in it. He also has a veg plot in there, chickens and some super orange trees. He gave us a litre of olive oil at the weekend that he had just pressed the day before. Then we got a carrier full of home grown caulis and the best fresh oranges. All this is too much for Mrs D who is frantically looking on-line for cauli and cabbage recipes as we also had some cabbages a couple of weeks ago. Anyway the upshot of all this banter and receiving of fresh produce is that I have landed myself a job helping the guy - Spiros for a change - to move some bags of olives from his olive grove to the processing factory . ..watch this space well see how it goes.
Today has been a beatiful day so very little chore undertaking was done (a little graffting was done after 4pm when the sun started to go down.) We have to admit to sitting in the sun with a book and a drink and feet up. What a pair of dossers. The forecast for the next few days is wet and windy so we will be catching up on the chores. I hope to have the second bedroom insulation finished this week.
This isn't very exciting to you but last week we received our first letter from the UK!!!! It made a change to have a letter instead of a bill in the mailbox. Such excitement just shows what quiet lives we lead out here, an excuse for needing to get out more I think.
Watching the weather in the UK looks like you guys have had a bit of a rough time with the old cold and snow. We can see the snow on the Albanian mountains from here and we hope it stays up there it's OK like it is down here thank you very much!!
Well it nearly movie time on Greek TV, there are plenty of English speaking movies to watch with Greek subtitles, you get used to the subtitles.
So its away to get the wood burner cracking before the movie comes on - yes it does get cool here on a night. (We also now have a new fancy Italian axe for chopping wood - we know how to live you know.)
Will blog again soon.
Mr D
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