It is Monday and it is a bank holiday here in Cyprus. This one is in celebration of Kataklysmos, the Great Flood, and is generally a day to avoid driving through the village as you are likely to get pelted by water filled balloons!! Major celebrations in the harbours were cancelled this year due to COVID-19 but I am betting that somewhere people still took on the greasy pole challenge!!
We, on the other hand were staying in and adding jobs to and ticking jobs off of the To-Do list!!! John was adjusting the curtains in the Do-Jo and thought we had some brackets and tiebacks somewhere - I had a sneaky suspicion they were in the kitchen glory hole cupboard and so I decided that this was an area that required my attention. We have 'stuff', we hoard 'stuff' and we never know when we might need 'stuff' so we aren't good at throwing things away. Today was a case in point as I found the tie-backs but sadly not the brackets!! I found a remote control socket but no remote control. John doesn't want me to throw that away in case the remote control pitches up - I have a sneaky suspicion the control got thrown away previously!!
I got it pretty tidy and was doing to leave it but John noticed I was having an issue with the baskets that were stacked on top of one another - these clearly offended his sense of order so he set about making a shelf that went between them which is much more satisfactory. So good job done.
Flushed with success I decided to try and sort out one of the corner cupboards in the kitchen. The problem here is that nothing stacks satisfactorily and I use it all!!! I have two plastic jugs but cannot bring myself to get rid of one - there is a rare occasion when I do use them both!!
It is tidier, I dropped the top shelf down because I thought it might help but I am not sure it has achieved much - this is now consigned to the 'Work in Progress' pile. I have to admit I have far too many kitchen things!!!
Nicky and Mark were up for a while doing work on the house opposite. Persephone's builders didn't seem to be here or at least we couldn't see them. We are fascinated to see how the big metal cube gets blended into the rest of the building but I guess it will. We did pop over to Lakis and Argy's to complete cleaning the pool cover after our fiasco when we forgot where the waste water goes and soaked Charalambos's newly chopped firewood.
It was an incredibly hot and clear day. I spent part of it doing some deadheading in the garden which included Hadge's rose which has been spectacular this year so far and I want to keep it that way. Midway through the day both John and I took the opportunity to cool off in the pool - the water temperature is hovering close to 30 degrees again and it is wonderful.
Another job which got completed today was the area where we store the hose - I forgot to take a before photograph but let's just say it was a mess. The ivy had grown up it and I had taken it off but it had left lots of 'feet' attached to the paintwork and some of the paintwork had come off.
The hose was massively too long and on an unattractive green plastic reel which stuck out and never got used. We measured as much hose as we thought we would need, sufficient to go out into the road and allow us to hose down the cars, and chopped the remainder off and took down the plastic reel.
John sanded the wall down and I set about painting it and then staining the wooden post which surrounds the pipe up to the outside tap. This is much tidier and makes it easier to get up and down the path at Bramall Lane. It is amazing how a relatively easy and quick job can have such a big impact. John has decided to stone clad the bottom of that bit of wall when he stone clads the sides of the potting bench just to tidy it up and so it matches the wall to the right of the hose.
John used up some odd pieces of wood today.
He decided to make a Hedgehog House that Liselotte can hide within her Hedgehog Home.
He checked the internet to see what short of design it should be and got me to stencil on the top.
When we are going that way next we will drop it off - if Liselotte hates it she can always get her John to burn it in their woodburner!!! It is rustic and I know she likes rustic!!
We wen't native for tea tonight - this is my take on a Greek Salad - a simple dish but somehow I never get it the same as what we have in a Taverna. Tonight's was nice though - the feta cheese was delicious, soft and creamy and not smelling of feet as some of them do!!!
We, on the other hand were staying in and adding jobs to and ticking jobs off of the To-Do list!!! John was adjusting the curtains in the Do-Jo and thought we had some brackets and tiebacks somewhere - I had a sneaky suspicion they were in the kitchen glory hole cupboard and so I decided that this was an area that required my attention. We have 'stuff', we hoard 'stuff' and we never know when we might need 'stuff' so we aren't good at throwing things away. Today was a case in point as I found the tie-backs but sadly not the brackets!! I found a remote control socket but no remote control. John doesn't want me to throw that away in case the remote control pitches up - I have a sneaky suspicion the control got thrown away previously!!
I got it pretty tidy and was doing to leave it but John noticed I was having an issue with the baskets that were stacked on top of one another - these clearly offended his sense of order so he set about making a shelf that went between them which is much more satisfactory. So good job done.Flushed with success I decided to try and sort out one of the corner cupboards in the kitchen. The problem here is that nothing stacks satisfactorily and I use it all!!! I have two plastic jugs but cannot bring myself to get rid of one - there is a rare occasion when I do use them both!!
It is tidier, I dropped the top shelf down because I thought it might help but I am not sure it has achieved much - this is now consigned to the 'Work in Progress' pile. I have to admit I have far too many kitchen things!!!
Nicky and Mark were up for a while doing work on the house opposite. Persephone's builders didn't seem to be here or at least we couldn't see them. We are fascinated to see how the big metal cube gets blended into the rest of the building but I guess it will. We did pop over to Lakis and Argy's to complete cleaning the pool cover after our fiasco when we forgot where the waste water goes and soaked Charalambos's newly chopped firewood.
It was an incredibly hot and clear day. I spent part of it doing some deadheading in the garden which included Hadge's rose which has been spectacular this year so far and I want to keep it that way. Midway through the day both John and I took the opportunity to cool off in the pool - the water temperature is hovering close to 30 degrees again and it is wonderful.
Another job which got completed today was the area where we store the hose - I forgot to take a before photograph but let's just say it was a mess. The ivy had grown up it and I had taken it off but it had left lots of 'feet' attached to the paintwork and some of the paintwork had come off.The hose was massively too long and on an unattractive green plastic reel which stuck out and never got used. We measured as much hose as we thought we would need, sufficient to go out into the road and allow us to hose down the cars, and chopped the remainder off and took down the plastic reel.
John sanded the wall down and I set about painting it and then staining the wooden post which surrounds the pipe up to the outside tap. This is much tidier and makes it easier to get up and down the path at Bramall Lane. It is amazing how a relatively easy and quick job can have such a big impact. John has decided to stone clad the bottom of that bit of wall when he stone clads the sides of the potting bench just to tidy it up and so it matches the wall to the right of the hose.
John used up some odd pieces of wood today.He decided to make a Hedgehog House that Liselotte can hide within her Hedgehog Home.
He checked the internet to see what short of design it should be and got me to stencil on the top.
When we are going that way next we will drop it off - if Liselotte hates it she can always get her John to burn it in their woodburner!!! It is rustic and I know she likes rustic!!
We wen't native for tea tonight - this is my take on a Greek Salad - a simple dish but somehow I never get it the same as what we have in a Taverna. Tonight's was nice though - the feta cheese was delicious, soft and creamy and not smelling of feet as some of them do!!!
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