Rain rain go away...

The forecasters were not wrong, unfortunately, we got the rain that they had promised.  We had thunder and lightning during the night - I wasn't aware of much rain then but this morning we had torrents. We all tell ourselves that we need it, which we do, but it is so much better when it is confined to the night-time!!  Poor Nicky and Mark were meeting builders at their pad this morning and I said to John at least they would know if and where they had any leaks.  Little did I know that it would us, not they, that would be sorting out a deluge inside.

When I had got up to go across and get a coffee all was fine and then sometime later when I went to get John's second cuppa I noticed a mark on one of the rugs which was wet and then I looked up and I was dripped on and then I looked down and realised that there was a fair old puddle forming.  John leapt into action as the water was finding its way down through the light fitting.  Bugger, bugger, bugger this is not what we need.

What John had quickly realised, fortunately, was that there was a seal in the glass roof just above where we could see water and that over the years the silicon had probably dried out and perished so that today, with the very heavy rain, water had found its way in and in so doing had begun to form a right old rivulet which was ending up on the floor below.  This was not something that could be easily rectified whilst it was still raining so John dashed out to make a temporary fix by placing an 'angle' of aluminium over the seal so that the rain water would hit it and then be diverted away from the problem area.  Needless to say the combination of rain and lower temperatures was a bit of a shock to his system this early in the morning but he did a sterling job and sorted the issue quickly albeit temporarily.  The fact that he was so laid back about it meant I didn't worry that we would spend the forthcoming days when the rain is forecast wading around in the house.

I left to go to art just as Nicky and Mark arrived and was grateful for the umbrella escort to the car so thanks for that Nicky.

As I drove down to Sheila's I could see that there was some brighter weather coming across from Neo Chorio so it looked like the rain might be heavy but short-lived.

There were workers up at the cemetery - two trucks but I couldn't see the workers themselves so thought they might be sheltering in the little church.  With this amount of rain the undeveloped area beyond Dad's grave would be a right old mess.  I didn't stop to look - whatever is happening I can go and look when it is dry.

Another lovely morning with Sheila and Klaus.  I had gone early and was not staying for lunch as we were due to go to Mina's for a curry this evening with Rob and Di but unfortunately she had to cancel because she has fallen foul of the throat bug thingy that is doing the rounds at the moment.  As it happens we had leftover sausage casserole in the fridge so we wouldn't go hungry and John had said he would go and do my shopping today if the weather improved and as he had rung from Paps asking where to locate Tomato Puree I gathered he had been which meant that there would now be no reason to go out after art.


Not going out and some unexpected sunshine meant that we could clean the inside of the glass conservatory roof and the triplex layer and sort the leaky bit of silicon at the same time.

This is a tricky job which John cannot do on his own so I am his gofer which regular readers will know does not bode well!!!

Needless to say I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and doing the wrong job most of the time but we managed to get the triplex down and cleaned and most of the insect collection dealt with and the glass cleaned on the inside and because it had dried out nicely John managed to silicone where he thought the problem might be.  We then managed to get it all back up again without breaking anything or falling out which is a bit of a result.

When we stopped for a cuppa there was a cookery programme on where they were preparing brandy cured salmon, which John said he would give a go and pickled cucumbers.  John had purchased cucumbers today, they were not on my list for good reason as I had several in the fridge already so we decided to give the pickling a go as it was super easy and I had all the ingredients.  I will keep you posted as to whether or not they were a success or not.

Thankfully the heavy rain this morning was short lived and was followed by quite a nice bright day.  Apparently there have been the first proper snowfalls up on the Troodos but not enough for us to be able to make it out from our roof terrace.  There was a pretty spectacular sky and some interesting cloud formations over the mountains.  More rain is forecast tomorrow - hopefully not too much as we have organised a mini Droushia Day out with Rob and Di.  We keep saying we should resurrect this as we had some great fun exploring and discovering and revisiting when we did it previously.

Can you believe my blooming book of stamps finally pitched up today - I reckon one of the cats had it as it appeared in the most bizarre of places.  Glad that the mystery has been solved and I am not going mad nor had thrown them away.

We got to the end of Peaky Blinders tonight - there is clearly another series to come so I will get another fix of the Shelbys in due course which is good!