After a wonderful Saturday morning and a lovely picnic, Sunday and Monday ended up being very wet, cold and we were back to struggling to get the log burner going again. It did not help that our wood pile had now got completely wet and that we had not had a chance to sort out a good dry covered place to store wood. However, we have a while to think about where to store it so that we have a good stock for any future cold spells and K’s friend Nicko was happy for him to some dry logs from his pile stacked in an empty house down the street.
The good thing is that on Sunday morning, first thing before the rain clouds came our way, we were up on the roof terrace celebrating the sight of the first swallow which we greeted like sailors sighting a pod of dolphins. So, providing the rest of the swift and swallow family make it from Africa, they should be swooping overhead in no time catching all the flying insects and midges.
The past two days have been spent profitably at home trying to do jobs that would otherwise get overlooked together with my 45 minutes per day “Teach Yourself Greek” regime via a CD until we can get language classes sorted out. I have the verbs’ to be’ and ‘to have’ pinned up in the kitchen and keep revising them every today with vocabulary. I have also just finished reading “The Golden Step” by Christopher Somerville, which ought to be compulsory reading for anyone who wants to visit Crete and is interested in the geography of the mountain countryside and the history – ancient and more modern – of Crete. I can thoroughly recommend it.
We now have a telephone line and internet service on order but we have no idea how long it will take for the service to become operational. Our lorry will deliver our furniture and boxes on Wednesday this week and we are short of warm jumpers and dry socks enough to look forward to this now because when the weather is fine, it is so easy to get a line full of washing dry in no time at all, but with this soggy weather we are biding our time! It has been the wettest winter for years.
This is the complicated still life we worked on last week. As from Tuesday, we will have quite a busy week with Art School on Tuesday, removals on Wednesday, and an airport run for Kimon at the end of the week while I am booked on a CIC Excursion. These are organised by the Cretan International Community and happen once per month but as yet, I am not quite sure where I am going- other than that there was no room for me in the car back from the airport- so I thought that I should take a chance and go out for the day. Let’s hope that the weather improves!
I heard at Art Class that the weather in England is lovely at the moment!! How typical - still wet and soggy here but the life and colour at Art School was great and I had a wonderful morning working on abstract themes from last weeks studies. I will try to photograph all the works of art next time.
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