I am officially lost for days - I thought today was Saturday but it was actually Friday, not that it makes any difference nowadays but we feel it is important to try and differentiate between weekdays and the weekends.
We may be in lockdown but at some point in the future, and sooner rather than later hopefully, we will get back to some sort of normality and have family, friends and visitors coming to our house so there are standards to maintain. I wanted to spend a bit of time in the front garden today and clear up all the debris that has accumulated on the shingle.
John is getting a bit concerned about the number of Escape to the Chateau DIY episodes I have been watching because once I had sorted the front garden I announced that I was going to give the lounge area a bottoming and then re-dress the mantelpiece and bookcases.
He had to rein me in because I was getting rather over enthusiastic and John said it would have been fine if we lived in an mansion and had massive and impressive rooms to furnish but we don't!!!
Our house is probably decorated in about the most un-Mediterranean-like fashion it could be but we love being inside in the winter and being surrounded by soft furnishings and 'stuff'.
I hate throwing things away and we had a whole load of things which John used to decorate the dining table in Chakra Art Gallery for my birthday which were cheap and cheerful and mostly from Jumbos but I loved them and wanted to find them a home!!! In the end we were both pleased with the end result.
While I was cleaning and house-doctoring John decided he wanted to have a go at making a Banana loaf because we had some very sad looking bananas in the fruit bowl. He couldn't follow my usual recipe because it requires yoghurt and I didn't have any so I found another one which he used - following it faithfully save for the addition of some sultanas and some strange beetroot wellness stuff he got when he went to the Spice House with Laura and Mark!!! It turned out beautifully and so now he will be the person responsible for banana loaf in our household.
We did yet another good deed today. We had a call from Kyle that used to play pickleball with us. He has a friend who moved into the village a couple of weeks ago and was to start a job managing the Ktima complex - poor guy arrived just before lockdown so is now stuck in an unfamiliar village, knowing no-one with no car (it was to come with the job) and now no cash and a mobile phone that wasn't working. We managed to find an old phone which he could borrow in order to text for permission to go down to Polis (John said he would take him) so he could get himself sorted and in the meantime lent him some money so he could get something to eat although Pani in the City Supermarket had given him some essentials saying he could pay him back when he had some cash. John had got permission to go out so met up with Nathan to hand things over - he was so grateful.
We had good news about David today too, Isobel text to say that she had spoken to the cardiologist and David's operation should take place next week - phew we were relieved but not half as much as they were.
More info from my Ration Book
If you were a restaurateur you couldn't serve both meat and fish to a customer during a single meal
If you were a florist you could not sent flowers by train to London
If you were a publican you could not decorate your premises without a licence.
We may be in lockdown but at some point in the future, and sooner rather than later hopefully, we will get back to some sort of normality and have family, friends and visitors coming to our house so there are standards to maintain. I wanted to spend a bit of time in the front garden today and clear up all the debris that has accumulated on the shingle.
He had to rein me in because I was getting rather over enthusiastic and John said it would have been fine if we lived in an mansion and had massive and impressive rooms to furnish but we don't!!!
Our house is probably decorated in about the most un-Mediterranean-like fashion it could be but we love being inside in the winter and being surrounded by soft furnishings and 'stuff'.
I hate throwing things away and we had a whole load of things which John used to decorate the dining table in Chakra Art Gallery for my birthday which were cheap and cheerful and mostly from Jumbos but I loved them and wanted to find them a home!!! In the end we were both pleased with the end result.
While I was cleaning and house-doctoring John decided he wanted to have a go at making a Banana loaf because we had some very sad looking bananas in the fruit bowl. He couldn't follow my usual recipe because it requires yoghurt and I didn't have any so I found another one which he used - following it faithfully save for the addition of some sultanas and some strange beetroot wellness stuff he got when he went to the Spice House with Laura and Mark!!! It turned out beautifully and so now he will be the person responsible for banana loaf in our household.We did yet another good deed today. We had a call from Kyle that used to play pickleball with us. He has a friend who moved into the village a couple of weeks ago and was to start a job managing the Ktima complex - poor guy arrived just before lockdown so is now stuck in an unfamiliar village, knowing no-one with no car (it was to come with the job) and now no cash and a mobile phone that wasn't working. We managed to find an old phone which he could borrow in order to text for permission to go down to Polis (John said he would take him) so he could get himself sorted and in the meantime lent him some money so he could get something to eat although Pani in the City Supermarket had given him some essentials saying he could pay him back when he had some cash. John had got permission to go out so met up with Nathan to hand things over - he was so grateful.
We had good news about David today too, Isobel text to say that she had spoken to the cardiologist and David's operation should take place next week - phew we were relieved but not half as much as they were.
More info from my Ration Book
If you were a restaurateur you couldn't serve both meat and fish to a customer during a single meal
If you were a florist you could not sent flowers by train to London
If you were a publican you could not decorate your premises without a licence.
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