May 5th

It is May and this is the view that greeted us this morning, cold and rolling mists.  I ventured outside the door and along our path just to get a photograph of what it looked like.  The weather in the UK is so much better and we are sort of glad that Lakis and Argy and Kia and their family have not come now to be met by such indifferent weather.  Apparently from tomorrow, according to Mum, it is set fair and let's bloody well hope so.  With the weather like this our plans for DIY outside went out the window.

As it would happen we had a call from Argy this evening - she was saying how much Lakis keeps saying he misses not being here in Droushia so I sent her the video above to reinforce the fact that he really isn't missing much and even if they were here we couldn't even wander over and have our ABF zivanias at the end of an evening.

Being indoors enabled me to do some entries for this weeks' challenge which is BREAKFAST and chosen by my friend Louise's daughter Myra.  I did a colour pencil drawing of a croissant and some jam as a fairly typical depiction of breakfast but then the other which was a simple pencil drawing was supposed to be Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys which seems ok but just somehow I could not get the size and the shape of her head right.  I fiddled and fart-arsed around and in the end decided to leave it as it was.  It is for fun afterall!!

I was gobsmacked to hear the unmistakable sound of the ice-cream van today - blimey lockdown might be relaxed but really - icecream???  We need much better weather than we have got for anyone to want a bloody 99 save for the most hardened of the village children.

Ok so sadly not too much to talk about today - the weather put paid to any work outside so bar watching Reach for the Skies we didn't do too much!!

The Ration Book says...
During the war nothing was to be wasted.  If it was edible and you had too much of it - preserve it.  If it would rot down to the feed the soil - put it on the compost heap.  It is was a cabbage stump or a potato peeling - put it in the bin for the pigs.