Wildlife...

They are back and it is now officially summer - our skies are filled with the sights and sounds of the Bee Eaters and I love them - not for the fact that they eat bees because there is a world shortage of bees but because the birds are beautiful.  When I got up this morning to feed the cats there they were about 30 if them sitting on the electricity wires in the field next door - fabulous.

It was our day for wildlife because this afternoon on our way back from Emba we had a "what the hell was THAT?" moment when something ran across the road in front of us.  It was so unusual that both John and I looked at one another.  It appeared to be a very large smooth skinned lizard with an apricot colour to the skin - nothing like the big old Jurassic geckos we see this was more like a snake with legs, long thin and smooth...

It took me a long time to actually locate the beast on the internet but eventually I concluded that it must be a Schneider Skink or Eumeces Schneideri which can grow to quite a size and I reckon the one we saw might have been 30+ centimeters long and crossed the road so quickly that it was almost like it didn't have legs.  Who knew that there was something like this on the island?

So back to today John was foregoing pickleball because he was having an MRI on his dodgy knee later this afternoon which also meant he was available to supervise the handing of mum's new blinds in the sunroom.  She got them from Euroblinds and not only were they very reasonable, they were made in super quick time and fitted perfectly without mess.  She is very happy.

Back to pickleball - sorry the photograph is out of focus but I took this to highlight the point that the combined ages of our opposition (Mum and Arodes John) is almost 153 years and the pair of them gave us a right old pasting between them!!!!  So anyone contemplating taking up pickleball DO IT - it is a sport that you can enjoy right into old age.

The weather today has been hot and sticky with a storm brewing which is much needed to clear the air.  Paphos got no more than a handful of spots of rain but it was very windy and I think I read on the internet there was a mini-tornado somewhere in Paphos - this weather gives me a headache and I was hot and sweaty when we made our way to the Radiology Centre where it took quite a while for John to get his MRI done.  The results will be available next week and then Dr George will be able to decide what can be done for John - if anything!