Last week fending for myself...

Trimmed up triffid bougainvillea. 

It's been a strange old week really, On Saturday we went to Vlicho yacht club to their tenth anniversary (and Rauri's birthday) bash.  Excellent night with a very good group, sounded much better live then they did on YouTube.  Nice to meet a couple of people I hadn't seen for a while especially Jane who had just called in whilst on a delivery trip to Malta (well that's as far as she goes with it anyway).

Front garden whipped into shape

Thursday and Friday last week were spent getting to grips with the ever growing and more powerful triffids which populate Tony's garden.  The bougainvillea is particularly vicious but never mind armed with the appropriate tools we soon beat it into submission.  I think that it'll all survive for another year now that it's got some air  flow around it.  The front garden is looking quite well established now and now that the fruit trees have some shape to them it's looking quite good.

Alterations at Igoumenitsa port and ANEK coming in.

I've been full of cold all week and coughing and peffing like a sixty a day man (oops Freudian slip, I am a sixty a day man, well maybe not that many!).  To be honest it's quite debilitating and you don't really feel like doing anything but even more so when you scrub all the decks till they shine and then you get red rain overnight and the next day leaving a large part of the Sahara desert firmly adhered to your pride and joy it makes you want to weep.  But I'm not going to do that 'cos I'm a big strapping Yorkshire lad, so it's out with the hosepipe again.

More civil engineering (in spite of austerity)

Today I went to pick Sanny up at Corfu airport, she could have caught the ferry to Igoumenitsa herself but like the big softy I am I thought it would make a nice gesture to meet her off the plane.  That and the fact that it gave her about three or fours hours extra talking before bedtime!! luv you darling!!!

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