G'day bloggers (if there is anyone following this!) Well, the tiling when we eventually get to it should be easy compared to the prep work so far. On Thursday I think I won the sweating for Corfu 2009 contest after mixing boatloads of concrete to fill the massive chasm left by the bath! Mrs D now adept at mixing the right proportions of sand gravel and cement was also dripping wet but sorry we were not allowed to enter her for the wet T shirt contest or take photos... Oh well, we have just about finished preparing the floor. The plaster boards came today, the tiles are here, all the adhesives are here too we just need the new taps, floor drains and a new bog then we are off. No, no not off to the bog.... off to a flying start with the tiling!! When this is done the rest of the house will look a little behind the times . . . oh no, more jobs and so it goes on.
Lets get this out of the way - it's almost 10 o'clock at night here and its 31dgs in the house. Mrs D is flagging with the heat (I mean she's tired not taken up a new occupation with her new building knowledge) I must admit it does get a bit much on a night sometime. We see from the BBC website that the met office are now back pedalling and are back on blaming the Azores High again for your awful wash out of a summer again! We do hope you get a little bit of sunshine.
So what news from Kopsocheilades . . . .hmmmm we went to a local festival last Sunday evening. We arrived around 6ish, nothing doing apart from 16 whole lambs all rotating on spits over coals. So we went for a beer, went back lots of chairs had appeared the lambs were doing nicely but still no people. We went back for another beer like you do and went back around 10 o'clock and half the island was crammed into the field, with beer flowing, souvlaki BBQing and lambs getting dizzy by now, all was in full swing. A good time was had by all especially the Greeks as they love to get up and do some traditional dancing. All ages and genders, no street cred issues, it is lovely to see it. Mrs D suggest we join in next time, depends on the beer amounts I think!!
What else, we now have in addition to several Elvis' in Sidari a Freddie Mercury, spitting image must have modelled himself on him and also a Jacko!! We will give them a try and report back. The veg patch continues to grow with the toms doing best closely followed by some sort of lettuce - rocket thing and trailing behind are the beets. We discovered today we had been nurturing some weeds (not carrots) so Mrs D dug them out. Didn't look much like the carrots I used to see on Bugs Bunny . . . ah well all good fun. Oh on the way back from the festival we picked up a dog - could have had something to do with the bag of lamb we bought, see him above..he stayed a while then we had to lock him out as he did not want to go or wanted more lamb not quite sure which!!
I had better get off now and see if Mrs D is OK as she was last seen sat by the back door fly screen trying to cool off and mopping herself down.......more later D&L
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