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Sandra arrived home safe and sound on Sunday after her stay in England taking her dad back home and catching up with what ever was happening on the family front. Her plane was half an hour late setting off in Manchester but was only ten minutes late in getting to Preveza where I was waiting for her. She came back on the last Monarch flight into Prev and there were thirty four of them on a two hundred plus seater aircraft so as you can imagine she had her pick of the seats, it seems there were about a dozen trolley dollies looking after them too! We had a welcoming committee at Assos when we got back with all the locals wanting to know how her trip had gone and was her father managing OK now that he was back in his own home etc.

Picture: Wild cyclemen down the hedgeside

Wednesday we had planned to go swimming to ligia beach but it rained heavily all day in fact there was so much water stood on the front garden that we could have saved the trip to the coast and just done it in the puddles. We settled down and watched some TV mainly stuff we had recorded but also the film Avatar which is excellent. Getting towards evening and Yannis came to the door like a drowned rat with walking through the rain to ask if our washing machine had a leak as he was getting water downstairs, I went and had a look and there was water seeping down his bathroom wall obviously coming from our bathroom not the washing machine as he had assumed, anyway I told him I would investigate.

Picture: Pomegranates ready for picking, super sweet mixed in a fruit salad.

Today I thought I ought to try and find out where the leak was coming from and as it's a good day today I can at least get in and out without getting wet. No that isn't true! When I found the leak which was coming from behind our Bath/shower mixer and squirting backward into the hole in the tiles where the pipes are secreted I took it apart and applied some PTFE tape to improve the seal and when I got it together again and the water turned on the mixer tap fitting broke and drenched me before Sandra could get to the mains tap to turn it off again. So I've had to go down into Thesprotiko and purchase a new mixer tap which just happens to be complete with shower head and fittings so a complete new job. Anyway it's fixed now so something less to bother about.

Picture: The Church at the northern side of Assos.

We went for a walk around the village on Tuesday as this was maybe our last chance and the flowers are now re-appearing after the rain we had last week so I took a few pictures. We stopped off at our good friend Couler on the way back for a beer and to make sure she knew we were leaving for Lefkas at the end of the month. It seems that the whole village knows now and they all seem to understand our reasons for doing so. All the pomegranates, Grapes, figs, and Walnuts are ripe now and we have been both helping ourselves and given vast quantities.

Picture: Sandra sat outside Couler's Kafenion.

Sandra has been down to Jorgos and Mantha's Kafenion today to cook Chilli for them Mantha loves Sandra's chilli although Jorgos isn't over keen. It turned out that there was none left when we left the table though.