Out with Rich...

Happy belated birthday Richard - it has taken some time to be able to arrange breakfast out but today we made it.  We had decided to go to Haris in Peyia for our food.  This has been a challenge for months with the road works in Peyia but today it was an even bigger challenge as the diversion has moved yet again and so we went all round the houses (literally) to cover what would normally be a couple of hundred metres!!!  Never mind, we arrived and settled ourselves for that long awaited big breakfast!

I just had the standard sized breakfast and that was more than enough for me - in fact I gave John some bacon and a sausage in exchange for his mushrooms.  It was nice - breakfasts here are always nice and very reasonably priced and it was nice to get together with Richard who will be disappearing again on Sunday when it is his Mum Ellen's 80th birthday and she and Richard and his sister Di (who arrives later today) are going away to celebrate.

We got back late morning - we had earmarked the remainder of the day to giving the spare bedroom a lick of paint as Laura arrives next weekend and will be sleeping in there.  We had wanted to get rid of the watermelon green (at the top) which was never the colour we had wanted in the first place.  When we got the new bed we said it definitely had to go and so we mixed up the old watermelon green with some grey and ended up with the colour at the bottom which I much prefer although I have no idea what you would call it.

It didn't take us long to do the back wall - made quicker by the fact that a third of it has been taken up by paneling and we freshened up the areas of magnolia that needed freshening and then it was done and I made the bed up and we were good to go save for the fact that Scooby Doo is still fully inflated and normally sits on that bed and so will therefore need somewhere else to live!

It didn't take long and so once tidied up we settled down for a nice slobby evening.  We had a hot shower, got into slobbers, battened down the hatches (against nothing as the weather is good) and treated ourselves to a 'picky' tea.

I had been into Lidl yesterday on my way home from Mums and afforded myself the luxury of a good mooch round to see what they had to offer.  They have started to get their Deluxe range in which included a pack of meze type nibbles for about 7 euros which included a selected of stuffed peppers, cheeses, olives and stuffed vine leaves and a dip in the middle which was absolutely delicious although I couldn't actually identify what it was - maybe cheese and chili?  anyway I had also bought a baguette and some cold meats and pickled onions and we opened a bottle of wine and that was our date night Friday!!!

I had pasta earmarked to make tomorrow with the roasted pepper soup I had made some time ago and which was much too spicy for soup and needed calming - John suggested incorporating the leftover dip, cheese and peppers from the meze nibbles.  That sounded like a good idea to me.

We watched the end of series two of Time - it was just a three parter so we will have to find something new to watch now.