Saying goodbye to our lovely friends...

Today we were going down to see Mum and meeting up with Wendy and Bill.  Sadly on the day of Dad's funeral Wendy and Bill had car issues and didn't manage to make it.  We did all go up to the Cemetery on Saturday so that they could see where he was buried and to pay their respects.  Bill sadly lost his Dad at this time of year so is familiar with having just one parent remaining.  It was good for us all to get together.  They managed to find Mum's place quite easily which was good and we had a nice hour or so chatting.  At that time the weather was lovely and bright and quite warm but it deteriorated as the day went on so Mum's trip to Classic Cinema went out the window which I was not too upset about because I worry about her being out in the dark when the weather is bad.

It would be the last opportunity we would have to spend a bit of time with Wendy and Bill before they return to the UK early on Thursday.  It has been so lovely to see them - we just hadn't realised how much we had missed not having them just up the road in Pissouri.  It is strange that it was this blog that brought us together and I know that periodically Wendy still reads it!  We met for the first time in Faros the first winter that we were living over here permanently and we hit it off immediately - they were, are and always will be our No 1 Stalkers!!!  Anyway with this in mind we decided to grab a spot of lunch together in the Mall and then Wendy could have a little moochette in Jumbos and I had a few bits I wanted to get including something else for John for Christmas as I have only one little thing for him to unwrap.  I, on the other hand, have the Kenny-mobile back on the road and safe - that is my Christmas present.

We had our lunch and said our goodbyes and went our separate ways and because I failed to find anything for John we decided to stop off at Sports Direct which was a little more successful so there will be something for John to open.  Bless him he never asks for anything at Christmas except socks - he always asks for socks even though he has a drawer full of them!

As we made our way home the heavens opened and it was grimmer than grim.  At Tsada they are resurfacing the road which is causing a bit of chaos and where they were laying the fresh tarmac it looked like the road was on fire.  The further towards Kathikas we went the worse it got - at some point the windscreen wipers almost struggled to cope.  We couldn't wait to get back home safe and sound and snuggled up on the sofa and then we remembered we were due to pick up Kenny so that was going to have to wait.

We made our way down to Andreas's garage - with some trepidation as we were unsure how much the job was going to cost and whether there were any other brake issues we hadn't known about as John had asked him to check everything over.  As it happens it cost us a massive €48 to get Kenny fixed which is a bargain to have him back on the road and, as I said, this is my Christmas present and I am well happy with it.  I have to say that the whole getting the part imported from Malaysia was pretty easy really once I had got the delivery address thing sorted.

We ran in and unpacked our shopping and tried on our Christmas hats that we have a feeling we may be needing to wear tomorrow if the clean up with the school children goes ahead - looking at the photo it is probably not a bad thing that it is out of focus!!!

I put the pork into the slow cooker which is going to be pulled for Saturday night's supper when Nicky and Mark are here - the chicken for the biryani is marinading.  Nice cooking smells but we weren't hungry - my chicken teriyaki from the Mall was delicious and filled me up.

Another wild wild night - December has been pretty poor up here in the hills but the island really needs the rain.