Thursday 21 June 2018

Ladies Lunch

Today was ladies lunch day - we were having lunch at Finikas today so I was looking forward to it because I love the courtyard and I love the food.  Before that though there was great excitement on the estate...



...After seeing people looking around the two empty properties across the road, two of the 10 which were being done up by a British Builder who went bust and have since laid empty, a company had been drafted in to clear them in readiness for sale.  These are the two which you see when you come into the development and have the roof terraces with the railings and spiral staircases.  The teams today were tasked with simply clearing the gardens and they worked all day filling two trucks on four or five separate occasions - god knows where the waste went.



By the end of the day both properties had been sympathetically spruced up and we can now see the rather attractive natural stone wall that skirts round the corner.  Tomorrow apparently an internal team will come in to clean the insides and also empty the stinking old swimming pools.  Today's team was being managed by a woman who did a fabulous job and when they left they had cleaned up everything - you would hardly have known they had been save for the fact that you can now see the houses and the wall and because of this it has meant that Mohammed has had to move his horrible old truck from off the front of one.


John picked up Di and dropped us off at Finikas where we were to sit outside in the courtyard for our lunch.  It was fabulous.  Well done Sheila for organising because the mini-meze was to die for and in particular the fantastic roast potatoes which were superb.  There were 16 of us today and it was a convivial bunch.  I sat with Di, Ruth and Marianne and we had such a laugh.


Bless Phillipos for bringing his latest creation - Zivania Liquer for us to finish off our meal - this was a concoction of zivania, cinnamon, pomegranate juice and some sugar - it was so drinkable that Diana and I had no problem helping out with any that people didn't want to drink!!  I even bought John a bottle but think I am more likely to drink it.


I was full of beans on my return - it must have been the zivania liquer!!!!  I decided we should tackle something off of the list of things to do and so cleaned the kitchen cupboards with teak oil and then persuaded John to get out the paint so we did one wall of the kitchen and my plan is that we will do the remainder tomorrow morning before John goes to Physio.

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