Day 60...

Yesterday afternoon we decided that we ought to up our broadband speed to 3Mb because we are streaming the TV through the internet and I am blogging and we have the Tablet that John uses for all sorts, so combined that can be just a bit too much for our current service...  We rang Cytanet and were told that it would take about 3 days.  This morning John was up at 7.30 and couldnt get onto the internet - when I got up at 8.00am I tried it and no joy so we rang Cytanet, they were in the middle of updating our service and so by 8.30am this morning we were on 3Mb and it is like shit off of a shovel - thank you Cytanet - cant fault your service.

So DIY day today...

We went off to Polis this morning with a long list...  We called into the village on the way to check for post and were soooooo excited to get a parcel from Gemma which contained a whole load of goodies that we had been waiting for - like the castors for the spare bedroom so that the bed doesn't shoot across the room!!

First stop in Polis was the DIY centre to get curtain hooks and screws so that we could put up the new curtain poles in the guest bedroom (or Mum and Dad's bedroom as we like to call it)!!!

The poles that we got in Glykis were actually really nice and it is good to get that bedroom finished at last.

Next stop the Bank so that we could get our money out for the month of July.  It is all a bit new for us as Cyprus seems to function on cash and we are much more used to paying for everything on a card.  We have taken out what we think will last us for the month - let's hope we have got our figures right!!!

From the Bank we went across to Chillies to get some chicken for tomorrow when we have Mum, Dad, Ray and Janice and Dave and Rosie coming up for lunch.

Then it was on to the Woodyard so that we could order the wood that we need for the boundary fence.  They thought they might be able to deliver this afternoon but if not it is going to arrive tomorrow.  We are going to alternate the boundary with wooden fence and wire mesh for the vines that we brought over from Greenwood Road.  Then we went across to the Farmer's Co-operative building to get the wire that we needed and also purchased a big blue container to act as my water butt.  Once the guy in the Farmer's Co-op realised that we lived here we had his life story so we know that he had a sister that lives in London and that his children are in the UK being educated and living with their grand-parents.

On returning to Droushia we found that Dad had arrived before us.  Mum had gone out for lunch so Dad was coming up to us and bringing some bits and pieces that we needed.

We stopped for lunch and then got on with the jobs in hand - the main one being the guttering - starting with the main building. 

As you can see John is checking how the water flows to make sure that the angle of the guttering is correct. 

Not sure why they are both right-hand on hips a la teapot style maybe it is a man thing!!

Unfortunately we didnt quite have enough to complete the job but we are well on the way to finishing it and we aren't expecting too much rain for a couple of months at least!!

It was very odd this afternoon working and hearing someone playing "When I'm 64" over and over again.  We realised that it must have been Big Dave (in the middle of the picture) from Hils and Keith's band practicing as he doesn't live very far from us!  It wasn't all bad - he did play some soothing Jazz afterwards!

We called it a day at about 6.30pm and decided to catch the last of the evening sun sitting in the front garden with a carton of €1.78 Sodap dry Rose Wine and some chilli, lime and coriander crisps.  Life is good!!