July 23rd...

Charlie Boy had to go for his second injection today.  Poor little thing gets terribly car sick so I had tried to make sure he had no breakfast but when my back was turned he hoovered up Chivers' leftovers.  Irene was getting this treatment done under her feral programmed and then we were adopting him permanently.  True to form he was sick and poo'd going down and coming back and we had to wash him off but he seemed none the worse for his experience.

As we were going to be out of the house for quite a while today we had to make sure that Charlie Boy was fully occupied as I have already noticed that there are some unexplained hitches half way up my curtains!  He has shunned his more expensive play things in favour of an old cardboard box which he loves - even though he is eating bits of it!  Wiggly Worm has been wedged down a hole in the top and Catnip Carp has been thrown in for good measure!!  He was a bit woozy when he first came back from the vets but I knew that it would only be a matter of time before he started racing around.

We were going down to Mum and Dad's to sort out some of the smaller bits of interior decoration!!  They have just about got the bungalow sorted bar putting up some pictures and getting the internet and phone sorted.  They are very happy there and we are pleased for them.  Their lovely neighbour Effie had made some of her legendary keftedes which we had for lunch.

Mum and Dad have an ideal spot just outside the kitchen for eating out but at the moment it is almost too hot to sit there!  Mum says that there is next to nothing that they miss about the old villa which is good news - I dare say that over the next few weeks there will be some tweaks to be made but they will be minor.  Anyway as a thank you to all the helpers Dad is paying for food at their local Kleftiko place on Tuesday evening which is fab.

After lunch we all tripped off down into Paphos and the Citizen Service Centre.  Dad has decided not to renew the insurance on the white CRV when it comes up for renewal in August and he and mum have decided that now they really only need one car so we are taking on the CRV for at least a year or for as long as we can afford to as we had not anticipated having a second car.  This meant that we had to insure the car and then transfer over the log book.  The car insurance was easy - Atlantic Insurance are very efficient in that respect.  The transfer of the log book proved more difficult as (a) the car had originally been purchased as duty free and (b) there has been a change in the law regarding issuing log books under your passport number.  Apparently now if you want to transfer a car, sell it or whatever you cannot have your log book issued under your password but under a different number and any other log book you might have must be changed at the same time so that meant our blue CRV log book and the Scooter log book needed changing and there was some confusion over the paperwork regarding the car now being deemed duty paid.  Let's just say we didn't complete the transaction and Mum and Dad have a trip down to the customs office tomorrow to try and sort out their end and I have to bring back our two log books so it can all be done at the same time.

Back home we had to throw open all the doors and windows as the house had been shut up in soaring temperatures.  It was one of my watering evenings, I try not to water too often and have adopted the view that if the plants survive like this then they will survive!  In one of the plants we had a rather striking spider - I don't know what it is and as yet I haven't been able to identify it.

Tonight was supposed to be the last Super Moon this year and I wanted to try and capture it on camera but whilst I was watering I couldn't see the moon - often at this time of the year you can see the moon before the sun goes down but tonight the moon didn't rise till it was dark but boy when it did it was stunning.  I need to know more about the camera and I could really have done with a tripod but I did manage to get one or two nice shots.