Winter descends on the sunshine island

Pruning started at Tony's 

 We no sooner seemed to have returned from our short break in Metsovo then we were back in harness here on the island.  After my usual Friday morning guitar session at Lefkas we went up to Delphini Villas (Tony's place) to give the gardens there their annual haircut.  This is a full weekend of work so we stayed with Tony and Liz in the villa while work progressed.  As can be seen we ended up with a large amount of surplus vegetation and I think I may bring my old shredder from the UK next year to try and make this more manageable, there is a limit to how much dying shrubbery you can secrete around the place.  Maybe an incinerator might be a possible answer.

Now doesn't that look better!

The triffid between the two villa's

Looks more like it now!

The place looks much more loved now and we had a great time with Tony and Liz despite the cold weather.  Sandra cooked Fridays meal, Liz cooked Saturdays and a then we had roast chicken dinner on Sunday.  Also had a trip to the cinema on Saturday evening to see the film "The Double" which was a nice change to the normal routine.


Thanks for a great weekend you two!

About three inches and still snowing.

 On Tuesday morning I had agreed to meet Tony at the marina with a view to getting "Izola" & "Jungle" out of the water to have their bums cleaned and to do some general repairs in the case of "Izola".   When I set off from the south of the island there was slight breeze and it was only just above freezing.  When I got out of the car on the marina there was a full gale blowing straight into the marina with white topped waves and everything.  The wind was howling through the masts and rigging.  After a coffee in the cafe and a chat we decided that prudence was the watchword and we would leave them where they were until the weather improved.


We checked all the moorings on all the boats including "Contango" Tony's big boat to make sure that they were not going to come to any harm in the prevailing conditions and went home again.  On arriving back to the south of the island I found there was still only a light breeze here, weird this island weather!

Looks more like the Arctic than Lefkas.

JCB to the rescue this morning.

On the subject of weird weather we had a cold day yesterday and in the middle of the afternoon it started snowing.  As can be seen from the pictures we ended up with quite a lot of the stuff although there doesn't appear to be any at the bottom of the valley in Vasiliki.   Our landlord and neighbours, Mike and Tree had to abandon their car in the village and walk up to the house were Mike had to have a medicinal brandy in order to recover! I took a few pictures and posted some on Facebook and a couple got shown on our ITV regional news programme in Yorkshire, "Calendar",  so we were dead chuffed to see them on the telly.  Sandra was so excited she had to make a few telephone calls to let the world know that we were now famous!

Anyway suffice to say we are now thawing out quite well this morning and although it's not warm weather it is at least melting fairly quickly after we were ploughed out this morning.