Thursday 12 June 2014

Well we're here....

ZZzzzzz She just doesn't have the staying power.

Spot the tractor - six foot weeds.
 We had a good trip from Lefkada back to good old Yorkshire but it was a long day setting off from the Marina at 9 0'clock Greek time (07:00 BST) and actually arriving at Sandra's dads house at 02:30.  We had a super meal in Athens airport, deciding to have a proper meal at the restaurant in the airport rather then the MacD's which most people plumb for.  The restaurant is called the olive tree and although not cheap as you would expect in an airport, it was excellent fodder the best we have ever had in a public place like an airport.  The flight was delayed by 45 minutes which meant that even if we had a good, quick flight home it would be nip and tuck if we caught our train for the onward journey.  We landed just 15 minutes later then expected so the pilot had done well to catch up but then we had the gauntlet of passport control to get through!  We were not worried, we had chip and pin and would get straight through!  No - all the machines were closed and we had to queue.  We had a frantic dive towards the station to catch our train and get the tickets out of the automated machine, two minutes then to get to the platform.  The guard was standing whistle in mouth when I spotted him from the balcony above.  I shouted for him not to let the train go we were at full gallop, (not a pretty sight!) we just got there with the guard grabbing Sandra's case and almost pushing her onboard, then the two hour journey to York.  She was buggered and went to sleep, too much exercise is definitely bad for you.  Anyway Number three son John met us at York and then drove us the forty five minutes home.  Thanks John.
Two and a half days of hard graft later.

Some of the mountains of hay, anyone got a horse?
Later on Tuesday I went down to have a look at the paddock which I knew would be in a state.  Our neighbour, a farmer, had thought so too and knocked quite a lot of it down with a tractor and flail mower but it was still a massive task awaiting.  Two and a half days later I've got it something like although it'll take two or three weeks for it to recover.  We have tons of hay in big piles all around the periphery but it'll rot away in time.  I can now set about getting the caravan base prepared to move onto.

We have had confirmation from our long standing tenants that they are leaving in early July so we will not start our redecorating until then.  Good luck Andrew and Lesley with your new home, it's been nice knowing you.

We have not had time yet to go visiting Grandkids etc. but will get around to it over the weekend hopefully and maybe some more interesting things in the meantime.

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