Good Grief it's half way through April!!...

It seems like only the other day we came out here and now it's already halfway through April and only about 7 weeks left before we set off back to blighty so Sandra has a month or so to get ready for Gary (our eldest son) and Claire's wedding. It's less than two weeks now to our good friends Allen and Jean coming to visit us and we're really looking forward to that as we haven't seen them since last September and there's so much to talk about what with their winter out in Cyprus and of course our time here, I think we may struggle to get it all in within the fortnight that they are here. Then a week and a half later Sandra's bestest ever cousin Dawn and her husband Graham are coming out to stay for a couple of weeks and will be travelling back overland with us to England so we have so much to look forward to. Anyway I digress.... Back to the present.

Picture: A man is always on his knees doing a womans bidding!

We have been having a bit of a spring clean this week well as you probably know I've got to clean up after Sandra all the time anyway (whack - I can feel it coming!). We've cut the grass on out little cabbage patch lawn over the weekend with a pair of shears. I could have got Christos to do it with his brush cutter but it leaves nearly as much tidying as getting down and dirty with the shears. It took me longer to do this little bit than it takes to do almost an acre of lawn at home but I suppose we are time rich. There has also been a general tidy up of the olive groves going on around us, when they picked the olives and pruned the trees late last year and early this, they left all the pruning on the floor to dry. Now they are raking them all into heaps through the groves and setting fire to them. Unlike English farmers the Greek farmers can burn all their rubbish so obviously the EU law doesn't apply here but that's nothing new.

This picture shows the lawn finished and you can see the smoke in the background from Niko's Olive Groves:

The first BBQ of the season happened this week, just a trial run with some chicken and liver but very tastu none the less. Here I am doing what a man does best!

We have also set about trying to get all the window shutters looking something like as much of the paint on them is oxidised, this involved giving them all a good clean and then car polishing them, the result is not perfect but they look much better then they used to.

At the moment there are beautiful flowering trees all over the place deeps purples and glowing whites all this on top of the abundance of wild flowers spring here is a real masterpiece worthy of Vincent van Gogh.