Sundays seem to come round increasingly quickly at the moment!  Today Mum was bringing the meat element to our meal which was to be jacket potato, salad and Coronation chicken and we had bought some mega slabs of Paps carrot cake to share for pudding.  You can tell it is cooler because up until now the thought of a giant piece of carrot cake would just have been far too much!!!

The weather since Laura and Mark left has been really awful - unsettled and stormy and although the mornings start bright and warm enough it all goes downhill from there.  We have also had several fires nearby which have necessitated bringing in helicopters or planes to dump water.  One was started by lightning yesterday and affect an area near Yialyia - yesterday we saw one near Kritou Terra and apparently there were others around Kathikas and Stroumbi.

Mum didn't fancy a swim today - can't say I blame her as the skies had become overcast and it was bound to feel chilly when you got out but the mystery of the temperature difference between our pool and Lakis' pool has been sort of solved.  Lakis' pool is in full sunshine and they have one of these new geo-bubble covers which is super efficient and lightweight and initially the temperature difference was only a couple of degrees which was understandable and then over the last couple of days our temperature has begun to drop and his was going up and nudging 40 degrees!  This was strange but we thought that his new cover must indeed be magic and so we decided that once our 20+ year old one (which we were kindly given by Mum and Dad) finally meets its maker we would replace it with a geo-bubble.  As it turns out there is an issue with the scale on Lakis thermometer which moves so it can show warmer or colder than it actually is!  So in order to avoid any confusion we are going to invest in a couple of digital ones so we can be absolutely sure what the readings are!

So back to today we managed to start our regular Sunday afternoon game outside but were accompanied by the distant and then not so distant rumbles of thunder and then we were met with the plop plop plop of some rather large rain drops hitting the deck!  We retired indoors before Mum succumbed to hypothermia!

Someone managed to capture the rainbow which appeared after the storm and which was almost entirely complete over the village - what a fantastic shot!  The garden will have benefited from some rainwater but actually it wasn't enough to soak in and did little more than make a mess - John was hopeful that the panels would get a good wash but I think he will have been disappointed.

Partly because our game took so long to complete and partly because of the weather Mum stayed here until around 6.00pm which is fine in the Summer as she will be driving home in daylight but once the clocks change (if they do as there is now some debate about dispensing with the Daylight Saving Hour) we will need to review how we do things so that she is safe and we don't have to worry about her - which we do anyway!

We slobbed out this evening watching the remaining episodes of Jack Ryan Season One which we had started earlier in the week.  It has been a bit of a luxury to have the evening to ourselves and we actually stayed up much later than normal as a result.  We have quite a busy week next week - surprise surprise but I am pleased that I will be off to Art in the morning - the beach huts are calling!