Hobby Day Wednesday...

Ok so Wednesday started like an episode of Pet Rescue.  I had heard some pitiful mewing late on Tuesday evening and saw the scraggiest kitten ever drinking out of next door's pool.  Now I can't bear that because the water is so full of chemicals and so I thought the least I could do was to put out some fresh water. 

This is the rocky road to ruin in John's eyes - if and when we get a cat (and it will be more likely when) John wants to choose it and not it choose us so he wasn't too keen but then he isn't heartless either so between us (and Sharon from up the road) we put out some food and water for the poor little thing - there is no photograph as we dont want to form any sort of attachment plus the kind of kitten we had envisaged would look more like the one on the right (he was at the White River Taverna) than a scraggy emaciated poorly ginger tom!! 

Anyway twice on Wednesday morning the kitten appeared - once in the abandoned house next door where it had managed to get into the garden but clearly couldnt get out and so John had to shin the fence and 'encourage' it over the wall and then secondly just sat pitifully crying outside our wooden gate.  Sharon provided more food and water and I left her with the task of trying to catch it so that we could get Irene (our lovely cat rescue lady) to take it to the vets so that it could be dealt with one way or another.  Satisfied that we had done the right thing we set off for our day of pursuing hobbies (once we had torn Trev away from his interesting book) - the boys were going to terrorise the fish in the marina at Latchi and Vix and I were going to the lunching craft group in Neo Chorio.

On arriving at the venue (which was a little difficult to find) we arrived and had immediate house envy!!!  What a fantastic place and what a fantastic location.

Our host Jeanette is a mosaic guru and obviously very artistic and her home was full of beautiful things.  At the back of her house she was fully geared up for housing the crafters and she and her husband had his and hers workshops!!  We were made very welcome and enjoyed a chat and tea/coffee and delicious chocolate cake and banana cake whilst crafting or watching people crafting.

Jeanette's husband summoned us all for lunch which we took sat around a huge table looking out over the swimming pool to the sea beyond. 

We continued with the crafting after lunch - most ladies were mosaic making, one was carving some sort of building stone to make a huge shell to go in the garden and Vicki and I had frantically rustled up a paperfolding project that we were making into a heart-shaped decorative wreath - whilst we were in awe of what others were doing they all seemed to be more impressed with what we had achieved - and it doesnt look much for about 5 hours work!  I intend to keep going to the Wednesday group as and when I can - it was a good day.

We rescued the boys from the bar - it had been a little hot for them at the harbour fishing - and made our way back to Droushia.

Vicki and I were going to sample the delights of the Akamas Health Spa and Vicki was going to have her toes painted (for nothing).  We had decided to go and have a cuppa (with home made biscuit) first and to check out the facilities because we had been told that they offer a daily rate so that you can take advantage of them all and we were thinking of doing that on Friday as a special treat.

We had a lovely hour or so and were taken for a guided tour.  There is an indoor pool with exercise bikes in the water, the outside pools, a steam room and sauna, fully fitted gym, volleyball court and tennis court.  The food menu looked nice and they do a proper high tea in the afternoons with little sandwiches and cream scones!! That sounds better to me than the fully-fitted gym!!

We decided to take a walk into the village for our evening meal - something which we had not managed to factor in yet with Trev and Vix.  We opted for Christos's where we had a really lovely evening with some very very large G&T's!!!

All round a very very good day - our visitors will be going home for a rest!