We are in the grips of yet another heatwave so it is stinking hot and it is hard to find any energy but with the start of the Premier League on Saturday and therefore the Mighty Blades returning to the top flight I wanted to make sure that everything was done and dusted so John could settle down and scream at the television and the referee who will apparently not have known his father!
That being the case we were, today, going to be nice neighbours, not that we are not normally nice but today we took it to another level when we rolled up our sleeves, ignored the soaring temperatures and prepared George and Pam's villa in readiness for the arrival of his son and family next week. Aided and abetted by the cats who were clearly more hindrance than help we transformed Villa 11b into a bijoux holiday home. When it has been shut up and everything is stacked inside it is hard to visualise just how nice it can be.
It is amazing what a duster, mop, clean bedding and rearrangement of the furniture can achieve and we hope that it wont be too much longer before we can be doing this for George and Pam themselves. While I was playing house doctor and 'staging' the villa John was doing battle with the bay tree which has doubled in size outside the bedroom door and not only that was housing a wasps nest which he only discovered when it was too late and the buggers managed to find a gap in his gardening gloves to get him!!
We have had a horrible winter and all the properties have suffered much more than normal with damage and damp. It looks like Stelios has addressed some of the issues here but there are some areas he may not have noticed. We will have a chat with Andrew so that he can report back to George. We have already got George to agree to having something done to the garden at the front which is tidy for the moment and which John and I will sort after the visitors have gone.
We will put the fridge on tomorrow and then get the few bits of shopping Andrew has asked for - must remember to leave the lights on Monday evening as the family arrive quite late I think. At least they will be able to collapse into clean beds.
Our neighbours were on their way back from Spilia today and we had sort of expected them around midday as they said they were aiming to leave after lunch. There was no sign of them so we text to ensure that there wasn't a problem - there wasn't they had just stayed a little longer with Lakis's brother than anticipated.
After all our hard work this morning we decided to treat ourselves to a little lunch just the two of us and John said he fancied going to the Herb Garden which we did only to bump into Simon, Melanie, the girls and Melanie's dad and his partner. Simon is certain that they will be with us on Sunday which is great news - Simon will have taken part in the memorial run on Saturday in memory of his friend Natalie Christopher.
When we returned home I got out the frames I had purchased in Jumbos yesterday for my artwork. Sadly the mount isn't suitable for the picture of the clematis as it chops too much of it off but it is perfect for the picture of the poppy seed head. I am particularly proud of this effort and will now try and find something similar to go into the second frame - this time I will know exactly how much room I have to play with.
This has necessitated a move round in my pictures and I need to find homes for them all which isn't a simple task!! Anyway good old Jumbos - that frame was all of 4.99 and I used to pay ten times that for it to be framed in a shop with mounts - this one even has a double mount.
We spent a quiet afternoon around the house, dipping in and out of the pool and having a rest after our disturbed night's sleep. It was really too hot to do too much else and we were pleased when we saw that the Kyriakides had returned home safe and sound.
This evening I did my bit for the community by attending the blood doning session in the community office - the blood team are always super pleased to see me as I am blood group 'O' negative which is the one they are always desperate for - and I get my platelets and blood pressure checked at the same time! I am so pleased they come to the village - although I have answered their calls before and gone down to the hospital in Paphos.
That being the case we were, today, going to be nice neighbours, not that we are not normally nice but today we took it to another level when we rolled up our sleeves, ignored the soaring temperatures and prepared George and Pam's villa in readiness for the arrival of his son and family next week. Aided and abetted by the cats who were clearly more hindrance than help we transformed Villa 11b into a bijoux holiday home. When it has been shut up and everything is stacked inside it is hard to visualise just how nice it can be.
It is amazing what a duster, mop, clean bedding and rearrangement of the furniture can achieve and we hope that it wont be too much longer before we can be doing this for George and Pam themselves. While I was playing house doctor and 'staging' the villa John was doing battle with the bay tree which has doubled in size outside the bedroom door and not only that was housing a wasps nest which he only discovered when it was too late and the buggers managed to find a gap in his gardening gloves to get him!!
We have had a horrible winter and all the properties have suffered much more than normal with damage and damp. It looks like Stelios has addressed some of the issues here but there are some areas he may not have noticed. We will have a chat with Andrew so that he can report back to George. We have already got George to agree to having something done to the garden at the front which is tidy for the moment and which John and I will sort after the visitors have gone.
We will put the fridge on tomorrow and then get the few bits of shopping Andrew has asked for - must remember to leave the lights on Monday evening as the family arrive quite late I think. At least they will be able to collapse into clean beds.
Our neighbours were on their way back from Spilia today and we had sort of expected them around midday as they said they were aiming to leave after lunch. There was no sign of them so we text to ensure that there wasn't a problem - there wasn't they had just stayed a little longer with Lakis's brother than anticipated.After all our hard work this morning we decided to treat ourselves to a little lunch just the two of us and John said he fancied going to the Herb Garden which we did only to bump into Simon, Melanie, the girls and Melanie's dad and his partner. Simon is certain that they will be with us on Sunday which is great news - Simon will have taken part in the memorial run on Saturday in memory of his friend Natalie Christopher.
When we returned home I got out the frames I had purchased in Jumbos yesterday for my artwork. Sadly the mount isn't suitable for the picture of the clematis as it chops too much of it off but it is perfect for the picture of the poppy seed head. I am particularly proud of this effort and will now try and find something similar to go into the second frame - this time I will know exactly how much room I have to play with.This has necessitated a move round in my pictures and I need to find homes for them all which isn't a simple task!! Anyway good old Jumbos - that frame was all of 4.99 and I used to pay ten times that for it to be framed in a shop with mounts - this one even has a double mount.
We spent a quiet afternoon around the house, dipping in and out of the pool and having a rest after our disturbed night's sleep. It was really too hot to do too much else and we were pleased when we saw that the Kyriakides had returned home safe and sound.
This evening I did my bit for the community by attending the blood doning session in the community office - the blood team are always super pleased to see me as I am blood group 'O' negative which is the one they are always desperate for - and I get my platelets and blood pressure checked at the same time! I am so pleased they come to the village - although I have answered their calls before and gone down to the hospital in Paphos.
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