It was a bright start to the day and John was keen to do a little DIY before he went off to Football and as I have my staining badge but not my drilling badge I knew what was to come!!! Having fixed Shaun's chop saw John wanted to cut and fit the bracing bits of wood he has for the pergola in the front garden. This was a reasonably quick job and with stain left over we gave the electricity and phone boxes a fresh coat. We dug some errant 'Arfs' out and took them, together with some seeds and a tree that was surplus to requirement, around to Ollie and Trish who we thought could make good use of them. The front garden is really taking shape but we will have to see what toll the ravages of winter take.
Chivers doesn't like Thunder and Lightning and sought the safety of John's lap. The weather got progressively worse and we were forced to take cover indoors and then all hell let loose. The thunderstorm seemed to be almost directly over the top of our house. At one point there seemed to be a bolt of lightning that hit the house - it certainly looked like it came straight for us as we were sitting in the conservatory and may have struck the ladder or railings on the roof terrace. In the space of about half an hour my water butt went from bone dry to overflowing and the front garden began to flood. The conservatory did well apart from a couple of places on the floor where the seal has dried and shrunk but at least John knows where they are to be able to fill them when it dries out.
We had to run for our lives in monsoon conditions to get to the car so I could take John to Running Johns in time for football. I was so pleased that John has actually got round to going - he has kept talking about it and I think it is good for him to have an interest of his own. As I made my way back home I could see the weather brightening over Droushia just slightly - you could see that the weather was going to improve it was just a question of when.
I had my first afternoon home alone and I loved it. Minnie Mou was keeping me company giving the storm a stiff ignoring and I decided to start off by cooking something nice and warming for John when he came back from the terraces and then to tackle my Greek homework in readiness for Monday - the past tense of the verbs To Be and To Live proving a little tricky I must admit! In the interim I managed to get hold of Vix and Trev on Skype to catch up and to make them feel a bit better about their crap weather by showing them that we get rain too and when we do there is nowhere for it to go.
Whilst grappling with some tricky conjugations I had a phonecall from our neighbour Charalambous who was checking that I was in and then he came round with some fresh dates from their garden in Nicosia. I have never had fresh dates - I have only ever seen those Medjool boxes that appear at Christmas with that funny long knobbly pronged fork. He gave me specific instructions to freeze them for ten days and then take out the ones I want to eat. I then have to defrost them and leave them for 12 hours and remove the stalky bit and squeeze!
A bumper Soccer Saturday as the Mighty Sheffield United won, Sheffield Wednesday lost (HURRAH), Yeovil won, Dirty Leeds won (Trev), Leicester won (Bill), Palace won (Johno), Forest won (Greg and Brian) and the mighty ENAD Polis won thus remaining top of the league!!!! and John is just sitting down to make sure that the Gunners (Alan) stuff the dirty cheating Hammers (John's words not mine) then it will be Ciders all round.
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