Frosty reception...

Getting bits into the muslin to make it set.

Well it seems that over night last night there was a frost on some parts of the Island and although it was a cold night here I never saw any frost.  Mike next door said that when Tree and he picked up their car at Lefkas bus station last night they had to scrape it before they could set off home.  Also on "Tortusvill"'s blog, she's posted a picture of her frosted car hope we ain't in for the same type of global warming which the UK has been suffering from!

Anyone for fresh orange juice?

Sandra has been making some more marmalade this week to take home as presents, it's turned out very nice too so it may not survive long enough to get back to the UK.  Again she's been up to her eyes in cooking for most of the week there's no wonder that I am such a fat bugger, I really ought to eat less but then again I don't like waste (or is it waist, but I must like that I have enough) so I'll have to continue my progress towards being "man-mountain"!

 Sandra has been to visit a guy in Hospital yesterday called Tony who unfortunately suffered a stroke only a few days after his good lady's funeral.  You can take Sandra out of the nursing but you can't take the nursing out of Sandra.  I stayed at home and plonked away with the guitar most of the day taking advantage of the fact that no one could witness the caterwauling.

The Almond blossom coming out hand over fist

The Almond blossom is coming out thick and fast at the moment and it makes a very spectacular sight all over the hill sides.  Also all the orange and lemon trees are full to bursting, it seems such a shame that most of these will probably go to waste as I think it probably costs more money to harvest these fruits than what the farmer can get for them at market.  Perhaps they need to start making marmalade as well!

More oranges than you can throw a hat at 

We have been burning quite a bit of fuel as the weather has definitely taken a colder turn so I've been logging up some of the stuff we had piled up for drying.  We have also been raiding the local dump as someone had put tons of good logs in six foot lengths there.  We decided just to take a little as we weren't sure of the "form" after all they may have been just leaving them there to return to as they needed the wood for their own fires.  Two days after we got a few bits the whole lot was flattened with a JCB and lost under tons of soil and stone.  He who hesitates is lost!