One week on

It's now Saturday 11th June and we are starting to see some order and some parts of the garden! It took us a few days to get everything to its place and about a week to clear the garden and get to the apothekei. An hour a day in the evening to be precise (when it had cooled down a bit.) Did we mention the sun has shone daily and it's been hot too?

No snakes discovered this time when trimming the weeds back (still a big area to do yet so might report differently later.) We can now park the car, which incidentally did very well on the journey across Europe loaded up to the hilt we are very pleased with it. I digress, back to the garden. There is now room for the car and also for the bike to park now and we can get to and from the apotheki with all the stuff we put in the house for the winter.

The bike, well theres another tale......I had to replace the subframe of the front fairing and when I was reassembling it I accidentally put one of the components back upside down which rendered the machine unable to start causing, headaches, stress and much swearing (Mrs D learned some new repairing expressions.) However I left it for a couple of days and went back to it again, knowing it was something I had done as it was working when I took it apart. I just happened to be leaning on the handlebars staring into the abyss of wires, cables and tubes when I noticed something read "Top" the wrong way up. Quickly I put it right to find this was the cause and what a plonker I was not to notice it in the first place. With bike all working again the next thing is more dealings with Greek officials to get it insured and taxed with my new Greek plate on it - more on the beuracratic nightmare later.

We have had a night out at the quiz - which we won!! Also caught up with a few friends and all is pretty much as it was. We have many things we brought from the UK to finish off the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom so all these will be first jobs before we start on any of this years projects.

This year it could be a paint job for the house, doing out the sitting room, building a partial roof over the decking to keep the sun off and whatever else we find needs doing along the way.

We've now finished the kitchen - hooray!! It looks great too. A few things for the bathroom to fit and a couple of bedside cabinets for the spare room to knock together.

Had our first day in Corfu town which was a bit of a failure on the business front as we are having to go again next week. Still it keeps us busy and out of mischief. Been busy to day so will probably be a movie night in tonight and maybe an evening in Sidari tomorrow to see whats on offer in the way of entertainment this season.

Well best get on and see where Mrs D has got too, been quiet for a while........cheers y'all and keep in touch.

A couple of updated garden pix below.