Hi Elsa, sounds and by the pics you had a ball in UK with your travel buddy. Back to the grind of home now I guess. Glad to hear your house is ok. and you are fine too. Take care. luv from us here in OZ.xxxx

Sunday 25th August

Thanks Linda...as for a breeze with a fourteen year old...think back...was it so easy? but I saw things that I would never have seen like...Chelsea Football ground....given my history like yours...Wolves would have been more appropriate...

So last night sleeping on the sofa at the Librarians and stomach cramps hit at about two am and several trips to the loo were on the cards after that.  I took my kindle to keep me company and eventually got to bed at three thirty.  Only thing different in out diets...i had a Twix that I think had been melted and frozen with the filling lying between the two fingers.  The rest of the diet was the same and no one else had the hebejebes at silly o'clock.

So breakfast was fry up of bacon, mushrooms, fried tomatoes and scrambled egg and by the time breakfast arrived I was absolutely fine.  Out into the garden by eleven thirty so that I could dig up several acacias that had self set or developed from suckers in the garden and I now have six that need planting on my hedgeline.  I think they are so pretty and not solid trees so that you can see through them.  I worked on the garden with her son and we have cleared quite a few of the other suckers that have found their way into the garden.  It's looking a lot clearer now.

Watch the Discovery channel this afternoon while the sun was doing its stuff and waiting for it to cool down but unfortunately the eyelids were heading southwards so it was a quick cup of coffee, downloaded several books for her from the pc to the Kindle so that she has a new supply and headed home forgetting my trusty English fork that is now on her patio.  Caught up with some missed calls on Facebook since it's so much cheaper and you can be far more succinct in the responses.

Supper tonight was a spicy (just for you Princess) sausage fried off with an onion and served with a couple of slices of bread.  Filled the gap and accompanied the beer.  Off to the dentist tomorrow with my Avatar....let's see how long we have to wait and I'll book myself in for a scale and polish while I'm there.  Eight thirty start from here so I better get my head down in a little while... I've had a good day but I'm looking forward to my bed....LN

Monday 26th August

Bloody mosquito again at one o'clock this morning so I was spraying and plugging in my zapper and eventually went off again after reading for about an hour.  Can anyone please tell me what the mosquito was put on the planet for....

Washing pegged out at six thirty, escalonia and fuschia from England potted up after two days sitting in a jar of water and several other 'bits' that I plucked from trees have been bedded in as well.  Some had roots just showing and others green shoots and they have two chances...either they will or they won't.  My next task should I choose to accept it is to dig out suitable holes in the bottom of the garden to plant up the acacia that I brought back yesterday from the Librarian's.

So for the rest of the morning.  My Avatar was dressed and best suited to go to the dentist this morning and when we got there there was no one waiting which was a good sign.  I knocked on the door, opened it and no one was in the surgery so we sat down.  By this time we were joined by another couple who were obviously wanting attention and when my dentist appeared he spoke to the couple and told them that they were fully booked.  My Avatar got up, I remained seated and he said that he had no vacancies but then they put the landing light on, he recognised me, we shook hands and I said that she was my neighbour and that she required attention.  He found a gap in his busy schedule, she was straight in the chair, ten minutes later she was out, I made my appointment for a clean and polish for the 9th September and back home in quicksticks.  It does annoy me though that had I not been there she would've been told to come back another day which isn't easy when there are only two buses a week from the villages.   

And now to the rest of the day....Acacia....here I come....the job has to be done.

Monday continued

Just been over to check on my Avatar and she has a headache so I dosed her up with strong Aspirin and left her enough for tonight.

And so by popular demand the proof that the fire was near the house and likely to have done its worst.  I can only think that it was caused by a shard of glass..there seems nothing else in sight and it has been three weeks without rain here.  Kismet....luck was on my side again...thank you to the higher power.

Supper tonight is spicy ( again for my daugher) sausage with potatoes and onions turned into an omelette....and I'm now down to the kitchen to sort it out...LN.  The acacia are still waiting for planting...it was so hot this afternoon that I got down with my book and my eyelids went skywards for a couple of hours....it's called catching up...LN....I'm back to the kitchen...

Hi Elsa, In answer to your question, They were made for fish to eat in the wilds, till suburbia came and we are their food now...lol

My solution to your problem......they like heat and fresh blood, so u have to have a fan blowing on you osolating of course and make it cool in your room, so they blow away before they can reach the flesh....lol   it might work..... or spray the room before you go to bed. Or get an electronic zapper......any way few ideas....

Can you post a pic of the front of your house, as I've only seen the back....???????

Tuesday 27th August

Thanks Linda...it was quite a hypothetical question....I just don't like to be 'food' but at two in the morning I find it difficult to decide the best solution....but now I seemed to have worked it out.   As requested, pictures of the front of the house but the intention was to make it look like the rest from the road and to make the best bits at the back so that  was the part that I lived in and appreciated.

So today has been hot hot hot and I think the most energetic thing that I have done is to plant up two of the acacias and the rest will be done tomorrow.  They are sitting in a bucket of water, looking OK for now but really need to go in.  As I've already said, my garden is so scorched...it was thirty four again today and it has been about a month now without rain.  It's been threatened but to date nothing and I think my Avatar was not as generous with water as I am.

Slept this afternoon...needed rest and recuperation and had phone calls from the UK to deal with.  Now waiting for next visitors from the UK....short and sweet this time in the shape of Kingdom's better half to inspect the work that's been carried out on their roof...I'll have the rope ready to string up the culprits if the work isn't to schedule.

LN....shower and bed...it's a warm one tonight....supper not required but maybe another drink just to replace the moisture.... LN

Wednesday 28th August

It has been one of those days that you just can't remember what day it is.  I've arranged to go to the Librarians on Thursday afternoon so that we can have an early start to Greece on Friday but this morning there was an element of confusion.  I think I've been going at full pelt for the last month and coming down is taking its toll.  Another week or so and I'll be fine but the heat hasn't helped.  It's been well in the thirties again today and all you can do is stay inside and keep yourself occupied once you've watered the poor plants.  Even some of the long standing shrubs are needing to be drenched twice a day and there was a very hot wind which seems to be drying them out even more.

Lunch was a mixture of hard-boiled eggs, potatoes, tuna and mayo.  The tuna was a new brand to me but tasted very 'fishy' so I'll go for the regular in future.  Had a visitor this afternoon...Emaula has come back from Turkey since the work has finished and is here for about twenty days.  I'm not sure if he was looking for some paid employment from me or not but it's far too hot to even think about finding him something to do.

My book has moved on a pace today and I'm now up to seventy two percent and at last it seems to be back to the story and moving well.  I think she get's into the habit of describing things in too much detail as if to pad it out or to tell me what she knows.....so I found I was skipping pages and not losing the plot so to speak.

Cooling down now....the clouds have come over and it would be wonderful if it rained....it's been threatened but no luck so far....I'm just about to go out into the garden and do a rain dance....LN...it's sorely needed..

Thanks Elsa, I did assume that from the road the house would be plain, as u have the best view from the back.... so thanks for showing me.  lol  

Thursday 29th August

On the plus side Linda...this is the coldest wall and always in shade and to break through the two foot walls to put windows in would have been really hard work and expensive.  Might as well have big holes on the front and fit bl**dy big windows.  Also it cuts down the noise...that's about ten cars at rush house and a couple of tractors a day....oh and I forgot...the one horse and cart.

Five thirty start this morning and out for coffee like a good'un.  It was cloud over this morning but as the sun came up it burnt it off and it's turned into another scorcher.  Emails and stuff this morning and then back to my book and at eighty percent it's still OK.  Stripped the beds and got two loads of washing done so that's one thing off my mind for next week...spare bedroom prepared.

Two little visitors this afternoon...they let themselves in and I told them off for not shutting the fly-screen.  I suppose if they don't have them they don't shut them.  We talked for a while and it was obvious that they had come round to use the computer....so I said that I had only just put it down and the answer was no.  I really don't want them to get in the habit and they go into things that I don't so may be opening it up to wee beasties.

So washing dry and in....passport dusted, euros sorted and I think I have enough to get three cups of coffee over in Greece.  Just need pj's, clothes for tomorrow and bed quilt....I'm on my way to the seaside....