Last blog for a short while (at least)...

Some of the olive pickers.

More talk than work I think!

Brian and Vicky very kindly invited us to their house warming over the weekend but of course there was an ulterior motive: Olive picking.

There were a great many people there so although Sandra helped with the "harvest" I just stood around and talked, bit of a man-woman roll reversal really!  I may end up paying dearly for that remark but hey ho.

More quake damage pictures.

Road not to be trusted.

A tight squeeze.

Anyway their new house looks great and I understand that they have got twenty five litres of oil from the weekends endeavours so success on both counts.  Thanks very much for inviting us Brian & Vicky, sorry we couldn't stay until the end but we were told it was a great evening.

This is the last time I will mention the earthquakes as they are now tailing away nicely.  Having said that we have had about thirty five tremors in the last two days according to the seismic web site, the largest of these being 3.6, so they are still about.

Debbie and Jeremy took the quake photos I have attached to the blog this week while they were travelling about the south of the island.  I'm sure you'll agree the damage is not minor by any standards.  Thanks for the pictures guys.

There will not be any blog next week as we will be travelling to Athens in order to fly back to the UK next Friday to be with our family over the Christmas season.  Sandra and I would like therefore to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a fantastic new year now.  Just in case the access to the internet in rural Yorkshire is as dire as it sometimes can be when we get home.