Cleaning the Village

This morning, first thing, we took Mum's car down to the body repair guy in Terra who everyone raves about.  He works out of a garage next to his house.  I have never seen any advertisements for him, he simply gets his work from word of mouth which is the best way.  What a nice guy.  He took a good look at Mum's car and we asked him to do as many bumps scratches and dints as he could find.  He explained that, sod's law, the front bumper on Mum's car was non-standard and so he would have to source one, which he did and he phoned later in the day with a price and to say he could do the work next week.  Mum suggested we keep her car up with us to get it sorted which we will do.  Whatever happens with regard to whether Mum continues to drive now or gets her licence renewed in April the car needed some TLC.

This afternoon we did a Lordos 1 litter pick.  We were joined by Nicky and Mark, Gail and Jan and we started outside Sonias and cleaned the road up to the cheese factory.  We haven't done a clean for the best part of three years, weather and covid and numbers stopped us but Gail and Pete remarked how awful it was around our estate - they see it when they are out walking the dogs - and so we decided the time was right to get back on it starting with the area where we live and then we will expand outwards as several newbies in the village have expressed an interest.

It was actually a very pleasant evening for a walk and even better a walk with a purpose.  Gail was right there was a lot of rubbish - strangely only two masks - we had expected to see loads of these post covid but it was mainly cans, bottles and fag packets - nothing dodgy on this stretch - the mucky DVD's used to be found on the main road down to Philippos's museum.

I reckon we must have filled 10 to 12 bags on that small stretch.  We had left six on the edge of our estate where there was no green bin.  We were going to ask Marianna to get them picked up but then we thought we could each put two in the bins on the estate and they would be emptied tomorrow morning by the bin men anyway.

We decided we would quickly call in to Kaponas for some liquid refreshment.  Eleni brought our wine and then two plates of 'nibbles' to go with it.  We sat and chatted and drank and when we came to leave she would not take any payment saying that we had done a good thing.  How lovely was that?  At least we know there are some people in the village who appreciate our efforts.  

The plan is to do another quick clean on Thursday evening - the stretch from the cheese factory up to the Inea turning which is absolutely disgusting.  There is something strangely satisfying about bagging up a load of rubbish and removing it from the streets.  It may only be clean for a very short period of time but whilst it is, it looks so much better.