The longest day...

Car Safely tucked up until summer.

 Sorry about there being no blog last week but we were busy making final preparation for returning to Lefkas.  Needed to get the final cutting of grass and clearing up in the paddock done to minimise the work we had to do when we return to the UK in three months time and also tuck the car away safe and sound although it's a good job that the car wasn't in the garage when the flood came as Sandra had left it at our sons before returning in November, if it had have been in there it would have been written off as the level of water in there was over the bonnet level.

The insurance companies excuse not to pay!

Paddock all cleared of detritus and most of the muck.

 Some of you may be aware that our insurance company have refused our flood cover because of this dyke running down the side of our property they claim that a water course includes all ditches, drains and dyke
s.  I have defied them to find me a rural property which isn't with a quarter mile of their definition of a watercourse.  It's now with the ombudsman and possibly may be in a court of law by the end of summer. PRATS!

At York Station waiting to come "home"

Last weekend we helped number 2 son Chris and his family move residence to another village five miles away.  I think it was really about Chris getting faster broadband but the kids will have more kids of their own age around them.  The house they moved into was a real state and despite eight of us on cleaning detail before they could even put stuff on the floor it will be several weeks work for Chris, Jane and maybe even the kids (if child labour isn't frowned on!) to get it into anything like the kind of place that Jane'll want.  They've never been frightened of hard work though.

Sanny brewing a cuppa while I watch Rugby in the Manchester Radisson.

 Anyway towards the end of the week we had a couple of meals out with friends and relatives before the journey back to the warmth of Lefkas (currently 18 degrees but feels like low 20's) before saying our farewells to the kids, grand kids and of course not forgetting (how could we) Geoff.  I think he was a little sad to see us go after being shacked up with him for so long and San waiting on his every whim but he is now much better and we think he'll manage fine until we return in the summer and if he isn't then we are only a flight away.  We left home for York on Saturday lunchtime to catch the train to Manchester airport where we had booked in the Manchester Radisson Hotel as our flight was at six thirty on Sunday Morning meaning being in the airport for four Thirty.  We had an easy flight to Athens and a couple of hours or so waiting for the bus from Athens to Lefkas where we arrived at around ten in the evening which made it a pretty long day all told, but it was better for already being in Manchester in the morning.  A word of warning, although the room rates at the hotel are reasonable, don't eat there it cost a bloody fortune, thanks Geoff for giving us the cash before we left to pay for it!