Thursday again already!

Good grief is it that time already!  I haven't taken any pictures at all this week so you'll have to be satisfied with my verbal meanderings.

Last Friday we went to the pontoon party at Lefkas marina and had a great afternoon in the warm sunshine meeting with people who were new to the Island for this winter and also with others who we seem to have known for years.  There was an abundance of food and wine available but Sandra took the flask and we had tea and coffee, although I did have a couple of glasses of red wine prior to coming back to the south of the island.

Unfortunately since Friday the weather has taken on a much colder turn and the nights have been well into single figures at around six degrees and the days have only been in the mid teens so it's felt rather cold here.  In fact the electric blanket has made an appearance although it only needs to be on a low setting.  We have had the fire blazing away for the last week in the late afternoon until bedtime but only had the central heating on for a short time when we first get up.  Yesterday and today it's felt somewhat warmer so hopefully the weather is now going to improve, today the breeze has turned around more to the south west from being stuck in the north west for the last few days so hopefully that bodes well.

Sandra has been poorly since last week also which has stopped us doing much this week, she actually spent almost the whole day in bed on Tuesday although she seems to be much better today, you know what this "woman Flu" is!!!

I would think that by now most people who read this blog will be aware that the price of meat here in Greece is quite expensive, well if you didn't you do now.  We bought a chicken from the butcher in Sivros, the next village to ours, the other day.  It cost eight Euro's which must be at least twice the price of a similar sized bird in the UK.  However with a little of Sandra's creativity we have had four meals from it which ain't really bad value.  We had a traditional roast dinner, sandwiches the next day and then from the carcase Sandra has made enough of a heavenly broth with dumplings to have another two meals each from.  All in all that chicken really didn't die in vain!

Oh well, that's about it for today hopefully there'll be more to talk about next week.