Thursday 14 January 2016

There is light...

Ex-Work colleagues night out. (Pic. courtesy of G.C.)
It's been a full week this week starting with an evening out with some of my ex-work colleagues last Friday night.  It was great to find out what they are all doing now and to toast absent friends.  A shame not everyone could make it this time but there maybe another opportunity in the summer.  My god but some of you guys are looking old, I'm pleased I managed to keep hold of my youthful good looks!
At last the scaffold goes onto the Blacktoft church.

Blacktoft Village (Sandra's dad's is the far house)
 The other thing which has started just before we left the UK was the scaffolding erected all around the village church.

This meant a lot to Sandra as it's about eighteen months since she organised a flower festival to celebrate her father's ninetieth birthday with the proceeds going towards re-roofing the church, which is very close to Geoff's heart.  We thought we had provided the last bit of funding needed but it has still taken all this time to get things moving.

We have been asked many times by people who sponsored our event when it was going to happen and you do feel a little like a charlatan getting funding under false pretences when nothing happens.  But all's well that ends well.
New 12 volt power selector switch fitted.
 Then it was back to good old Lefkas complete with bits and bobs for the boat.  I got a set of screwdrivers confiscated at Manchester airport (they were packed by mistake) but despite airport security showing interest in my various bits of hardware they eventually let me through.

It was good to get back to Greece just for the light, we seem to have been living in darkness or near darkness for the last month and I couldn't believe it when my glasses almost instantly reacted when we got off the plane.  It's not the sun or even the warmth, just the level of light that you miss.

New toilet pump fitted.
Anyway, having got back we have had a busy time fitting various bits that we returned with and that's just about all the planned work completed now.  So for Allen's benefit all that talk of "another winter job" when you were here, well another winter is only half way through and they're done.

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