There’s been a bit of a gap in the blogging, not for want of
things to say, just time to say them! We’ve
been back to Northern Europe for a month – lots of snow in Hamburg, and very
cold. Here we’ve had some dramatic
weather – 140km/h wind gusts recorded, but we are still here! Now wind back to late February:
The front of the house has taken on a two tone look!
They call it Kokkino Vrechi – “red rain”. It comes from the Sahara on a hot South wind,
strong enough last year to strip off a gutter and 15 tiles! On the night of 21st Feb, we just
such an experience. Luckily this time,
no house damage, but plenty out in the garden.
We lost a large pithoi out on the swimming pool terrace, despite several attempts by John to wire it up (again) to the railings.
Our terrace chairs had been fighting up on the East balcony, and the cypresses look like they’ve had one too many raki.
There’s plenty of window cleaning to be done, Oh, and whoops! The concrete mixer has
been blown over – Yes blown over!
