Off to the Wild Blue Yonder

Still Life

A lovely bouquet of spring flowers brought by a recent dinner guest.

 

We had a fearful job finding some more tin roofing sheets to replace the green shade netting on the downstairs pergola and in the end Ray had to cut the ends off two trial pieces that were not the right length. We ferried them home on the car roof rack with much trepidation expecting to take off like a primitive flying machine any moment. Fortunately it was fairly still with hardly any wind, except rounding a bend near the Meganissi channel, and the traffic was light. We had to pull over once to let a huge pantechnicon pass that was thundering down behind us and actually got a hoot of thanks, most unusual in Greek driving circles.

After a lot of pushing and shoving we now have two sheets in place, only 8 more to go!

 

JCB at work

Yesterday afternoon saw the arrival of the first tourists of the season to the rental villas at the end of the road. They got the benefit of the improvements done to the road only that morning. A JCB worked his way along the road scraping and spreading, even past our frontage. They won’t last long, the improvements that is not the tourists, as the holes and ruts have only been filled with little better than sand which will soon wear away but it’s better for now and better than nothing.

 

Free to good home, well, any home really

Meanwhile, a friend arrived with a second larger wheel for the boat trailer to make the two wheels even so that it is ready for the off, when we eventually find someone who wants a free boat trailer. How can it be so difficult? Hopefully I will find someone when I have a pitch at the boat jumble next week. I am biting the bullet and taking the windsurfers to sell as I haven’t used them and I am just getting older and stiffer so it seems unlikely I will ever use them again, let alone play the piano. Pity, but I have to accept facts and move on to being a proper granny and leave that particular old life behind. But the good news is that first I am going on a week’s sailing with friends on their yacht so I will be AFK for a week at least.

Finally, it looks like it will be another bumper olive harvest this year as the trees are heavy with flowers.

Olive tree full of blossoms