Thursday, 10 December 2020

A busy day...


This year has been trying for me, not least because I reached the milestone age of 60 but also because Lockdown has made it nigh on impossible to keep my hair in order.  I am 'blessed' with fine thin poker straight hair save for the two cow licks either end of my fringe.  John has been tasked with keeping the back of my hair under control but I am not entirely sure he knows what he has been tasked with.  I am in two minds what to do with my hair when I can visit Lumi my hairdresser once again.  I like the look of the photograph above which is supposed to be a cut for thin, fine hair but I always think I look better with short so am toying with the cut in the photograph below which is also supposed to be for thin, fine hair.  Both are very similar so I guess the question is ears or no ears?


Anyway this is all hypothetical at the moment as visits to the hairdresser are forbidden until the end of November at the earliest - this is still nearly a fortnight away by which time the Worzel Gummidge look may well be all the rage.

Today I was spending the morning with mum and having lunch with her.  We had chosen Wednesday so that it broke up the week and although not all shops are open and we have to social distance and shop in masks we did exactly that - taking in Lidl (where I managed to get a present for John for Christmas) and Kolios butchers where mum kindly bought some cubed lamb for our Sunday lunch and which I will turn into a lamb casserole with veggies and pearl barley.  I was tickled by the name of some sauce on the shelves in Kolios but not tickled enough to buy it at 8.50 euros!!!

I helped Mum with her latest rather random and grizzly jigsaw which she enjoyed because the pieces were large and the puzzle was well made but sadly it had several pieces missing (why don't charity shops check beforehand that the puzzles are complete).  I am desperately trying to find some new puzzles for her - it isn't easy as all big shops the likes of Jumbos in Paphos are shut.  

I had a nice lunch with Mum and then made my way back home where there was the unmistakable sign of a grey cloud of smoke hanging over Droushia.  The land by the Gravity Road Diner was on fire again - we have no idea whether this was 'controlled' and got out of hand or malicious but it was in the same spot as the fire the last time.  One good thing about the impending rains is that should limit the damage that these fires do.

This evening we had been invited to a game of Monopoly and drinks/nibbles with the Kirby's.  John loves playing Monopoly and is everso slightly competitive (followed closely by Nicky) so it came as no surprise that the two of them slogged it out until John won!!!

Part way through I had a call from Sonia to say that she had had a fall in the garden so I shot round to make sure she was ok and to strap up her wrist which was so swollen that we decided that she had to go to the Doctors tomorrow whatever she felt.

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