Some things change and some don’t

As you can see I haven’t yet got around to renaming or revamping the blog but that’s because we’re still waiting for OTE to connect us. We naively thought that contacting them a few weeks before we were due to move in would mean that the phone line and internet would be ready and waiting for us once we arrived. Oh you trusting fool. We are still waiting although we were apparently issued with a telephone number 3 weeks’ ago! Not much use having a number and no working phone. So I’m still using the mobile internet stick although it does seem to be behaving a bit better at the moment.
So what is life like on the mainland? Well we’ve not really seen much of it at the moment although we have seen rather a lot of the inside of Ikea! What with buying beds and bookshelves we hardly seem to be out of the place. Junior loves Ikea especially since we bought her bed from there as well as a desk and pink swivel chair for her to use for her homework. She has the biggest room in the house but still manages to fill it with all her belongings – hence the trips to Ikea for storage solutions.
Of course now that we’ve moved over here Sean is in…………..Skopelos. Of the 24 days we’ve been here, Sean has spent nearly half of them in Skopelos. It seems that the minute we left, the whole of Skopelos decided that they needed him! Typical. He says that things will improve once the summer is over but I’m rather hoping he’ll be spending some of the summer with us so we can maybe have a holiday. We all fancy the idea of driving through Europe but obviously Junior and I have got to get Sean to commit to a date.
Junior started school a few days’ after we arrived here and likes the fact that she can walk to and from school again as we used to and also that the school is painted peach! She breaks up for summer on Tuesday morning and if it continues getting hotter we’ll probably be spending most of our time inside in front of a fan. It was 38 degrees today and is set to rise to 40 by the beginning of the week. I’m still not keen on the hot weather although I am obviously more used to it than I was when we first arrived 2 years’ ago. Then I’d probably wilt when it hit the high 20s, now I can walk to get junior for school when it’s mid 30s and not feel too bad. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been doing more walking, to and from school, taking the dogs for a wander. The dogs have been quite surprised – and not pleasantly – by the number of other dogs around. Everyone seems to have 1 or 2 dogs and they all seem to like to bark around 5am. It can get quite noisy although I find that listening to my i-pod when I go to bed finally lulls me to sleep. Another thing the dogs have found surprising are the wild tortoises we have found wandering around. Junior also finds them quite fascinating but, unlike the dogs, she doesn’t feel the need to sniff and butt them with her nose!
It’s Sean’s birthday next weekend and while he fancies a weekend in Cork (!) we’ll probably head for Meteora instead, so hopefully I’ll post some pictures on the next post (he mislaid the camera for a while so that’s why you’re being deprived of tortoise shots!).