Health, work and happiness

Tuesday 25 January 2011

The first thing we saw when we got up was this concrete mixer at the bottom of our garden.  They'd started pouring concrete into the sheep-field-as-was.  It feels like an act of criminal vandalism, but I expect I'm over-reacting

The second thing we noticed was snow on the mountain.  OUR mountain, wherein lies Goat Bottom (admittedly only 13 metres up from sea level, but close enough).  There was a definite chill in the air.

We took off in search of Dave's medical insurance stamp.  Finding the right office in the Town Hall was surprisingly easy, as a helpful young man showed us around.  On arrival, we found the insurance room to be full, with a clerk at a desk at each end, two female visitors sitting chatting to our clerk, and another male visitor just being helped.  The room was about the size of our shed, so by the time you'd squeezed both of us in too, it was standing room only.  Luckily, in all the crowd, there was one good English speaker, who explained that we couldn't get Dave's book stamped without a medical number, and this was issued by the citizen's advice bureau in the next village.

Off we went.  Found the bureau, admired the view of Vlicho bay from the window while waiting, got the number issued, returned to the Town Hall, located the right office again, and got the book stamped. 

Now we could get some work done.  So down the yard we went, and Dave spent the rest of the morning grinding a damaged rudder, covering himself in health-giving fibreglass dust from top to toe.

With that finished we bought a couple of cans of soup and headed up to Goat Bottom for some fresh air and a busy afternoon.

While in Lefkas I'd treated myself to this fancy new staple gun.  (I'm as irresponsible in toolshops as other women are rumoured to be in shoe shops!)   Look at it - sexy matt black - it says 'aircraft aluminium' on it - very impressive (wonder what it means?). 

Anyway, it just flew through the job of foiling the next two walls of the shed, without wasting a single staple.

And there we were, with a glamorous shiny robotic shed ...

 ... which then became a soft fluffy teddy-bear of a shed as the cosy insulation went in ...

 ... and finally the mackintosh of membrane.

And the snow was still thick on the mountains - the mainland ones opposite, as well as our own.

I went into Lefkas for my test results while Dave went to band practice.  It seems my cholesterol is a little up - I'm advised to get lots of outdoor exercise and eat a healthy Mediterranean diet ...!