Somehow i didnt get in here yesterday to add anything.. so i'll ramble a little about that first before going onto today...


Thursday....

Athens action?

Well there's some kind of general strike on today... so the schools are off. which means i got a bit of extra kip this morning..

It feels to have been a busy week though i cant imagine why though i did go to the bank three times yesterday morning.. but the good news is we sorted a problem that had been going on for two years... so was worth it..

I passed the sumptuous chocolate shop.. ( :lol: which is enough to bring on palpitations.... )...8 times yesterday.. 6 on the way to the Bank and twice when i went to the supermarket..

In the morning it was still closed....... ahhh but later on... the irresistible aroma drifted towards my nostrils. thats part of what attracts people to it.. its a great way to sell a product...

Anyway its a lazy day today... I shaved Chris earlier.. ( really must get him a new blade sometime... i keep using the old one... as am wary of cutting him.... as with the aspirin he bleeds a lot. so I've been playing it safe..)

Today is now Friday...



Friday.. and the day started quite energetically with doing Chris' hair.. then as i had both lads out of the house and the bedroom empty for once... i leapt in there and tried to clear a bit of the debris..

Really its become more of a computer/ games room that they sleep in.. the wardrobe now houses the tv.. which leaves the problem of where to put the clothes.. fortunately they don't have a lot...

I'd just finished Chris' hair.. ( put the colour on..) and had left him to cook.. and a friend of his rang.. and said he was coming over,, :shock: well there wasn't anything we could do fortunately he isn't someone we stand on ceremony with and he sat and read the newspapers while i washed the colour off..

His friend had managed to find him a bottle of his favorite wine..... I was reading in the news yesterday of the benefits of red wine to people who have had strokes...

So its obviously a good thing for him to be having it..

I'm feeling quite wicked as have just nicked a tube of the kids smarties.. :lol: why is it stolen fruit always tastes better... :wink:
He has another 3 tubes so don't think he'll miss..

I now need to start making Chris' lunch and then its off out for the Friday shop.. to replenish our dwindling supplies.. they don't last Long around here..

So i'll wander off and do something... wishing you all a happy day...

:0)

I've been legging it back and forth to the bank today... to sort out an issue we had with one of the pensions.. a mistake that occurred when he had his stroke.. which has taken 2 years to sort out..

So am feeling quite pleased to have it sorted...

A large black buzzy thing..( fly,) is zooming about..I call them airplanes.. As i have to duck when they zoom overhead... So the balcony doors are open to let it out..

The big ones are usually quite brainy.. and will go out if you show them the way..

You can just imagine me cant you... " come on darling ...out you go... (as i gently try and waft it out..)

I remember when we were first married hubby used to squash them on the glass of the doors... a habit i have since trained him out of as to my mind it just created an unpleasant mess.

Generally speaking i dont want to harm the wee critters that fly in Ijust want them to fly out again..

Dull looking day outside.. for once i'm dressed and not slopping about in something comfy...
Tis off to the supermarket i will go .. Heigh Ho.. Heigh Ho...

Pity i haven't got the seven dwarves to help me carry it back.. :D

Later... have now got back and the buy of the day was some flipflops for one euro...

No matter how tight money may be... i usually try to fit a bit of frivolity in somewhere.. to make the days shopping fun..

Didn't matter at all that they were a couple of sizes too big.. they were a pretty shade of blue.. and had a rabbit on..

:0)

Gosh its so long since was last in here.. cant think where the days are going to… It seems no sooner have I got up and its time to go to bed again,,
As it’s a Saturday I haven’t been anywhere apart from onto the balcony.. to trim the leaves of my yucca I always lose a few over winter..

It’s a big yucca so it has a few to spare.. is really 4 trees in one.. I guess that’s one of the reasons its survived having me as a mamma….

My cat seems off color at the moment which is unusual for her so I’m watching her..but as she seems okay in herself am hopeful it will pass off in a day or so…

I know its not her teeth as the poor thing hasn’t got any.. that’s how I’ve noticed the change In her appetite.. because I hand feed her… mind you she had got a little rotund over the winter… so she’s looking better for having lost a little..

I try not to think about the economics of the country at the moment..the latest suggestion I’ve heard is that they don’t give the next two months pensions.. Eeek..

One wonders what they expect us all to live on…

Amidst such gloom and doom should I really have bought a doormat ( I think..!) with a collection of happy cat faces smiling back.. probably not… but it wasn’t very expensive…and it makes me smile…

:0)

Thursday and the tap is dripping… I wonder if the drops are water babies being pushed out into the world.. one by one .. and as they fall they say..~” Oh! Oh! Oh! “

Us human creatures are awfully slow sometimes at seeing things as they really are..
Its as though we think within a box... and many of us never step outside of that little square of acceptable thought..

We just assume that water doesn’t have feelings..

My first coffee of the day always seems to result in a time of contemplation..
It sets the tone for the rest of the day..

I suppose its rather vain of me to want to share my thoughts.. half baked as they are.. always struggling to find completeness.

But if I waited till I had a perfect thought I would probably never speak at all.. and so I grasp at those fleeting thoughts as they go past…

Knowing that particularly when we’re online that our words do become to some degree our presence… that by which we can be seen..

“Zee Body.. “ says Monsieur Le Baron..( not wanting to be left out of the conversation..)

Go back to bed … ( say I in undertone…). “you know how the sun makes you sneeze..” :0)


Today I’ve discovered a Blanket that I’ve postponed washing all winter and now I discover the moths have been at it..
So I guess it serves me right..

It was a baby blanket.. so the nostalgic in me doesn’t want to just throw it away.. so its now in the washing machine..

Why oh why do we so often postpone doing things until its almost too late.

Wednesday and the cat is showing her approval... by running back and forth as if all the hounds of hell are after her...
I have crawled out of bed and am now perched on a chair in the kitchen waking up over a mug of coffee and something called friganez ( dried toasts that come in a packet..) very morish....

My little finger knuckle still hurts.. and the joint has swollen more than it had.. as this is my 5th finger to be affected.. i'm getting used to the routine of hurt swell distortion.. the good part is that the sensitivity will pass to some degree. its only the top knuckle and i have another 5 fingers...

I suppose at one time something like arthritis could have been seen as a punishment for something.. or perhaps the workings of witchcraft..
Fortunately we're living in slightly more enlightened times.. at least in most parts of the world...

For me its a family thing.. I'm just following in the footsteps of my parents and grandparents.. I count my blessings that its not something worse...

So what else....( before i start to sound like auntie Mable discussing her ailments...)

Every now and then the sun breaks through the cotton wool clouds... and lights up my world... funny how immediately it feels warmer just because the sun is there...

Chris has gone out for a walk.. (he seems a little better of late...) and the large hairy lads are asleep in their cave..

Hope you're all having a happy day.... X

Happy Easter.... Kalo Pasca...

Monday already… How did Easter slip by I wonder… so fast….

I‘ve started to trim my yucca…. And my poor bedraggled gardenia.. it just refuses to kick the bucket.. and so I keep it still.. well life is life… is life… and though it looks pretty appalling as plants go.. who knows.. what it feels inside..

Once more its midnight… the time of ghosties and ghoulies.. when all sensible folk take to their beds.. though I find it a rather nice time of night.. its peaceful somehow..

Chilly here in the evenings though.. since they switched the central heating off.. lets hope we don’t have a cold spell or I might FWEEZE.. and my poor cat wouldn’t be very pleased either…

As she’s not one of those who creep under the covers.. though she may come on the bed and snuggle near my legs once the lights are off and she thinks I’m asleep..

I guess you could say she’s the independent type..

Happy Easter to any of you who may be listening.. or as they say in Greece.. `Kalo Pasca.! ’

Happy April the first everyone..

I’m not going to try and fool anyone I figure there’s enough people out there trying to do that.. and sometimes I find the jokes more nasty than funny…

I don’t know why but it brings to mind… those not very funny kids pranks that happen in schools which usually involve elements of bullying…and ridicule… Ho ho isn’t it funny..

So I guess that makes me a sour puss…

Though having said that I did read one that amused me..

A newspaper was asking the viewers to lick a blank square of the paper that was said to have a flavor impregnated into it….the readers were asked to guess the flavor…( you can imagine…. :0)… )

Nice to be able to sleep in this morning… and not have to go charging off to the hospital..

Its quite a nice day.. not summers ….as our summers here can be blisteringly hot.. but pleasant enough to sit outside…

The tree’s are starting to show little bits of green.. thank goodness…

This year I have a particular reason for wanting the trees to grow..
As for the past couple on months we have had someone floor polisher,,( red stringy mat like object..)stuck in the branches of the tree outside..

Although we can just manage to touch it with a pole.. we haven’t been able to detach it.. so I guess we’ll just have to leave it there.. until the tree’s are trimmed.. which doesn’t happen every year with that particular tree.. but at least once the leaves are out.. it will be hidden form view.,.

Wooden parke’ floors are popular here.. so what will have happened.. is someone will have been polishing their floor and have shaken it over the balcony.. a little too hard..,

And Ooooops down it went.. lets hope its not there in another 50 years…