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Flags at half mast tonight as Sheffield United miss out on promotion down to a penalty shoot out - we are gutted

A bit of a nothing day today.  We didn't wake until 8.00am when Angela's builders started their generator.  Although not settled it must be getting generally warmer as neither of the cats come to bed with us now - too warm I guess.  In fact the Minzer dared to sneak a little nap in Chivers new bed and looked very comfortable until he had had enough of the usurper and unceremoniously evicted her.  She doesn't take a blind bit of notice as she is as hard as nails, she just purses her lips, flicks her head and stomps off snootily.

We have our friends (and neighbours) Marian and Chris and my art teacher supreme and magic chef Sheila and Klaus coming round on Friday afternoon for a barbeque, and on Sunday we have friends Simon and Melanie (Avanti Hotel) and Helen and Alaistair (Wheelie Cyprus) coming for a meal so today was dedicated to tidying up and shopping.

It was a good day for washing and as Mum and Dad stayed overnight and we may have Hilary and Keith staying over I changed both beds and both were treated to a makeover and some of the new bedding I brought with me in the container.  Bedding is, as Mum would say, my one weakness, as I could never resist buying duvet covers - trips to Dunelm were such a joy for me!  I had obviously been very lax at keeping on top of the washing as I had four loads today and although I sorted it all fastidiously I have ended up with a mixed wash pink bra - bugger, bugger, bugger.  John says I had better make sure I don't get run over when I am wearing it although I thought that applied to wearing clean knickers and I have to say I wasn't planning too any time soon.

The conservatory is probably the best thing we have done to the house since we came here particularly on a day like today when my washing line was fit to burst so I was able to put some of the washing on an airer to dry inside the conservatory.  On the down side we get all sorts of butterflies, moths and insects trapped inside and both cats hound them (an oxymoron surely?) to their deaths.  Today we had the biggest bee/wasp type thing we have seen (other than the hornets which we avoid as they are dangerous).  This thing was about two and half centimetres long and John was keen to get it out of the conservatory before Minnie got hold of it just in case it was likely to do her harm.  John was flapping about with one of the fly swats and gave it a right old cuffing before it flew out and landed on the bay tree where we were able to get a close up shot of it nursing a headache.  I could be wrong but anything sporting yellow and black stripes is best avoided surely?

I am pleased to report that the cheapo bulbs I bought in the Euro shop and which looked decidely dry and past their best have started to grow and one or two have actually got flowers forming .  I cant actually remember what these are but they have quite cheeful pink flowers - Oxalis I think.

I have been a good girl and started on my Greek homework after yesterday's lesson.  It is easy for a week to fly by and I have to get my head round the verbs 'to be' and 'to have', count to one hundred and master sentences like 'he is clever but boring' although I am not sure how often I am going to need to drop that into conversation!  There are two or three letters in the alphabet that I really struggle with writing in lower case so am practising them too.  John is very impressed!  As I have said before I never appreciated when I did Latin at secondary school just how useful it might be to me throughout my adult life so at least talk of conjugating verbs or the declension of nouns doesn't come as any great surprise!  As a reward for doing my homework we are tucking into the bar of Galaxy that Hilary brought over with her - although I am not quite sure how come John qualifies for a reward.  Now I remember why Galaxy was always my favourite back in the UK and how I have missed it!!! 

Must just thank Gemma and Mark for dropping off the curtain tie-backs to Laura yesterday - can't be bad can it - purchased in Limassol on Friday and delivered to Yeovil on Monday!  Laura was delighted and can now start decorating her spare room!

The end of this week heralds a busy time for us including our big night out to see the Zilla Project at Pomos Point on Saturday - at least it will give me something to blog about!