Where does the time go???

It's the 20th July already! Reg has been and gone, the Toms are coming on strong, the car port's done, Slim's still hanging about, the sitting room ceiling's up and Mrs D is painting - you guessed it, the sitting room ceiling. As you can imagine this task comes with a certain amount of complaining, it's above your head, it's hot, the paint's thin and it gets everywhere!! Enough said I think before I get in bother, easy for me to comment when I'm sat in front of a computer.....

Reg (aka Graham) went last Friday after a two week holiday out here with us. Well, that is if you call painting, labouring, concreting, swimming andd snorkelling a holiday. He seemed to have a good time and we did spend a lot of time by and in the sea. We had no choice tho' as it has been 44dgs daily for about ten days now. We had to resort to being in during the hottest hours and grafting and beaching at opposite ends of the day. I'm not complaining as I keep hearing that splendid word "unsettled" being muttered on the BBC UK weather....

This week I finally got to grips with the olive tree using the chainsaw, seemed to go OK and the only thing that got damaged was the ladders. They'll be OK just a bit of a dent. There are bits of olive tree in a heap in the garden now, some waiting for further sawing, later this week I think. The cycling's getting a little less lately due to the heat, sorry!

Next week, as long as Mrs D survives the ceiling paint job, we are going over to Meteora on the mainland for a couple of days. We are going over on the ferry with the motorbike to give it a bit of a run out. More on this when we are back.

We then have a couple of weeks to hopefully finish the sitting room altogether before we head off up the Adriatic to meet friends in Venice for our trip out to Slovenia. Another adventure which I am sure will  make it to this blog.

We were supposed to be having a beach day today (which in reality means we go to the beach around 2.30pm when it's cooled off a bit. However, it's a bit breezy out with some clouds and the chance of a storm so we decided to stay at home and get on with some jobs. Not much more to report at the moment so I'll sign off and probably be back with some more of this stuff after Meteora. Yamas.....D