Friday 15 February 2019

Chilly chilly chilly...

Our long, drawn out, cold, wet and miserable Winter continues - not on the scale of Mid-West America where it is colder than Antarctica tomorrow but certainly very unpleasant.  We had big plans as to how we were going to spend our time today - some involved outdoor tasks but when we got up it was bitterly cold and grey so that got knocked on the head.  Indoor tasks were the order of the day and we heated up the conservatory which is the easiest room to do so and spent the majority of the day in there.


One job we were able to complete was to put the handles on the boxes which are on the top shelf of the TV cabinet.  Originally this would have housed a video recorder and/or DVD player but we have neither but we do have 'stuff' which needs a home and which we do not want on view.  We got the boxes in Jumbos and we used some handles which were originally on our fitted wardrobe doors.  In normal daylight there isn't such a difference in colour and we are quite pleased with the end result.


I had planned to sort the 'glory-hole' which is the cupboard in the kitchen which houses more 'stuff' which we do not want on display and managed to get that done because I was of the view that movement would prevent hypothermia!!!!

When we have friends and family come over on holiday they generally leave us the leftover toiletries that they do not wish to take home so we have boxes of partially used shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, hand soap and suntan lotions/after sun which is very kind of them but they have to be stored somewhere and this is that somewhere and having had a lot of visitors last year we have loads.

I do love having tidy drawers and cupboards but I am just not very good at keeping them that way!  I shall just have to strive to do better in future.

We have another day at home tomorrow save for shooting down to Polis first thing so we have fingers crossed that the weather will be better so that we can get on with some of those outside jobs.

I had a parcel delivered yesterday - well almost, the driver struggles to find our house so when he rang whilst I was at Art I arranged for John to go and meet him.  He was delivering a new rug for the conservatory.  One of the ones we had got damaged in the shed over winter and had started to disintegrate - to be fair it had only cost us 10 euros so it owed us nothing but as it was beginning to fray the cats and in particular Charlie was having a field day with the resulting bits.

The newbie is yet another rug from Carpet Vista that delivers to Cyprus free of charge.  This is a Kilim Patchwork rug and was cheap.  It will be hard wearing and not show the dirt which is exactly what we wanted.  The 'spotting' in the colour is as a result of the production method in that it is hand knotted so those knots show through the weave.  Phew glad about that because originally I had thought that Miss Minnie had been sharpening her claws on it already.

We had arranged to go out with Mum, Nicky, Mark, Liz and Bill this week.  Originally we had planned to go to Darcy's on Wednesday night but when Nicky came to book having managed to pick an evening when we were all available it transpired that Darcy's was hosting a private party that night so couldn't accommodate us.  We then chose tonight striking whilst the iron was hot.  John and I were going to pick up Liz and Bill on our way through Peyia and Nicky and Mark were picking up Mum on their way from Emba.

We have been to Liz and Bill's once but some years ago so we had some instructions from Nicky.  We arrived at Peyia rather earlier than anticipated so took the opportunity to take a quick look around Old Phillipos Supermarket - I needed a couple of bits and pieces and John was interested to see whether this shop had any bottled beers on offer or any at all - they had only one 'real ale' Hobgoblin and that was quite expensive.  I can see with Brexit and importing that John and Rob's choices with regard to real ale is going to be very limited in the future.  Yes there is a brewery on the island and it isn't located too far from us but the prices have rocketed as they have become more popular and some of the original brews which John really liked are no longer made.


We found Liz and Bill's fairly easily and we all assembled at Darcy's which was pretty warm even though we were sitting in what is a glassed in verandah area - they had two large gas fires belting out the heat.  We had a nice evening all together - we have all known each other a very long time so conversation is easy and plentiful.  Everyone seemed to enjoy their meals - in my opinion this is a good place for a light lunch or an evening meal but not Sunday lunch based on our experience the other week.

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