Posted: July 17th, 2010 by admin
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thing is with pools you spend more time cleaning them than you do in them….
Posted: July 12th, 2010 by admin
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Posted: July 9th, 2010 by admin
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well got the pool furniture assembled and once again wished i had watched blue peter when i was a kid i am not a diy person.. then on to the kitchen shelves which unfortunately didnt come with wall screws and of course today is holy trinty day and also the day when you have to wash your feet in the sea for good luck! so the shops were shut as everyone presumably has salty foot day off. so the kitchen remains un-shelved and tomorrow is another day!
Posted: May 24th, 2010 by admin
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swallows are all well and good outside swooping about eating bugs and being wonderful.. but inside they are somewhat of a pain..i dont mind the geko’s that live up the chimney.they dont make much noise..occasional squeak and only come out at night to snack on insects.. but this swallow keeps getting stuck in the living room..swooping about in semi panicky way and adorning my floor with partly digested mozzies.. 2 hours i have been trying to persuade the thing to leave but to no avail.. now working on a recipe for swallow souvlaki.. well here animal rights aren’t quite the same.. one of my neighbours told me that when his friend shot one of the elanora’s falcons its stomach was full of bees! i couldnt understand the reason given for the shooting but in england he would have a vegan encampment outside his house by now throwing petrol bombs …things are different here…!
Posted: May 17th, 2010 by admin
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Posted: April 24th, 2010 by admin
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Posted: April 20th, 2010 by admin
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The hills as usual are covered with flowers..this is probably the nicest time of year-warm but not hot- everything so green and of course very quiet. Starting to get the house ready for summer and painting, detailing and doing some outside works drives -patio’s -walls etc…its amaqzing how much time and money the outside stuff takes .its something i never imagined when i was budgeting .. I know you arent supposed to pick wild flowers but there are literally hundreds of acres of them here and what is so nice is to see the original plants which have been transmogrified into the awful gawdy things we see in suburban gardens and flower shops..here are some beautiful wild gladioli in the livin
g room and some wild white iris in the downstairs bedroom..
Posted: April 18th, 2010 by admin
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A quick trip to the island having been delayed by various matters in the uk to do some painting…unfortunate that the beautiful weather that made the november there into summer ended just as i arrived..so it became inside painting rather than the outside which was my intended target. Two difficulties ,one is painting white onto white plaster is very frustrating and secondly the rough scarred finish tradition in the islands is very hard to pain into for the first time .Still managed to do the living room area -first time i havent enjoyed its roomy dimensions- and it looks a lot better - i realize the difference isnt noticable on here but it is when you are there.
still on the last couple of days a mighty storm came in and eventually i managed to get off the island and battle my way through to the airport..having got back to the uk the normal thing haopened and its spring again there and here its minus freezing….
Posted: December 17th, 2009 by admin
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the swallows whom nested in the downstairs bedroom last year returned and re-nested in the basement-as the presence of doors and windows thwarted their return,so as we started with 2 birds we now have an entire flock- between 20-25 of them difficult to count as they fly so quickly. Every evening they perform around the pool an amazing acrobatic show which includes them sipping from the pool in the manner of firebrigade planes collecting water from the sea.
not sure what drinking chlorinated water does for them but they seem to like it,and they also reduce the mozzie population as the dip and dive around the house. not to many mozzies around-maybe thats why- the young ones arent always as adept as their parents though -i suppose its a training flight -and as they dip for water they sometimes get it wrong and crash!
I will try and take some more photos before they leave but they are so fast i am shooting at 8000th of a second and still getting movement on some of them.Sometimes the sky above the pool is full of birds like swallow wallpaper-will try and capture it.
Posted: August 17th, 2009 by martin
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