Friday 14 December 2018

Wild Weather

Sorry regular readers but my laptop was out of juice when I went to post last night!!


I got up this morning after what was a wild night.  The storm that had been forecast came and came with a vengeance.  This is not my photograph but someone down near the coast in Paphos took it - that is some impressive lightning!!!  We had lightning, we had thunder, we had torrents of rain and we had hail.  To be fair this was the first storm of the winter but it left us in no doubt that Summer is well and truly over!!!

Anyway I got up and put on some scruffers as we wanted to have a bit of a clean up outside before going off to pickleball well that was the intention but it was pretty wet outside and my plan to swim on Saturday has been put on hold as the pool water was nestling right near the top and will need pumping out and because the rain was mixed with hail it will have been chilly and the temperature is bound to have dropped.

John went out and checked that our neighbours' pools were ok to be left today - more rain is forecast today although the weekend looks to be fine.  We ensured everything was safe and sound before heading off to Emba and a game of pickleball.


So you can see that when we set off the temperature had only managed to get up to 12 degrees - it was considerably warmer down by the coast in fact a whole 7 degrees warmer!!!  It was a grey and miserable morning - these days are few and far between but John commented on how different the island looks when it is like this.  Everything is a mess because the lack of drainage means that the roads end up coated in guff which has been brought off of the fields.  Diana text to warn us that there was an issue on the road near Tsada - I am guessing there might have been a bit of land slippage but we didn't go that way to see what had occurred.


Sorry but this was taken from inside the car - John is driving down the 'Egyptians Road' and today we have no view across the valley and beyond Kritou Tera - the mountains are swathed in clouds and there is a fine drizzle and it is barely daylight.  John took it carefully down towards Coral Bay but fortunately there was little problem on that route and we stopped in Peyia to get rid of our recycling.


This is the grim view as we drove along one of our most favourite coast roads which is at Banana Bay heading towards Sonny's restaurant.  The sea was very rough but as I said before it was nowhere near as chilly as it had been when we left Droushia.  We were quite early when we got to pickleball.  Normally I leave it to ring Marios as I don't like to push my luck but we decided it would be better sitting inside the building on a day like today and he was quite happy for us to go in.  It gave us the opportunity to replace a couple of the court markings which had become quite warm and then the other John arrived followed by Diana then Liselotte and Mum.

It tickles me how everywhere in Cyprus now embraces Christmas and even the room that we use for playing pickleball had its own decorations and Christmas Tree!!!

We managed to hit one of the balls which is suspended from the ceiling and brought it down - fortunately it was only plastic and had obviously been stuck up having been knocked down previously.

We had some really good games - everyone was in good spirits and we had quite a laugh.  This was to be Liselotte's last game before Christmas as she is off visiting family but John will be there for a couple more games although not next week as he is taking her to the airport - much to his surprise!!!

We went back for a cuppa with Mum.  She is thrilled that Fred is making progress in the exercise stakes and now that he has a free run of the bungalow moves around from room to room and now sleeps with Mum which gives him the opportunity to jump up (onto the bed) and down which is something the vet wanted him to do - jump that is although not necessarily sleep with Mum.  Mum had bought him a new toy and sent some video later in the evening to show me he was playing with it.  It is a big change for Fred who has, for the previous four years or so, been confined to a much smaller area and has never jumped up onto anything.  The small changes that have been made will help him with his metabolism and hopefully will help his liver not being clogged up with a coating of fat.

Great excitement today as we have heard that our No1 Stalkers are coming over for a week's holiday.  We have missed Wendy and Bill being on the island so we are thrilled that we will get a chance to see them before Christmas - fingers crossed this crappy weather improves for them - we kind of want to remind them what they are missing by not being on the island.

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