Early January 2011
Well, hopefully, this will be the Year of the Camper Truck - although moving in doesn't seem to be getting any closer. We've been getting things done, interspersed with having to get on with work in the boatyard, and have had a run of exceptional weather, which has delayed updates to this blog, as I've either been out working or at home eating and sleeping.
I thought I'd try to keep a record of any Greek words we add to our vocab, so here are a few: the Camper Truck is a 'Tro-ho-spito' - literally 'wheeled house' and the shed is either 'spitaki' (little house) or 'apothiki' (storehouse). Interestingly, apothiki must be the root for the word apothecary. At a recent visit to Constantine the architect we found out that linen store is 'linothiki' - where '-thiki' is the word for something that holds a gun: holster, perhaps.
These little flowers have been popping up around us, enjoying the mild weather, and causing mayhem as we try not to step on them when heavily laden, or in a rush.
We had a run into Lefkas one day. I picked up this somewhat tedious if very useful item of equipment, and gave the deck a good brushing ...
... while Dave got this amazing Nimbus 2000* of a wood chopping axe, so we can get our olive wood cut to size for the stove.
This is pretty well the only item we've bought in Greece where they didn't offer us a plastic bag - which we refuse whenever we can. But Dave was not prepared to walk out the shop with a great big axe over his shoulder, so we had to persuade them we really did want a bag for it.
*Harry Potter's fancy broomstick
Around about January 6th, a Thursday, when we'd been down the yard for most of three days, we couldn't help ourselves, and spent a day on the land.
The next job, we decided, was putting the door on the shed. This would mean we weren't having to unpin and re-pin polythene over the door space at every visit.
I didn't take enough photos of the process, but we cut two sides of ply, drilled out the holes for the handle and the lock, glued on the sides (which was a bit messy, as the ply wanted to buckle and we didn't have enough clamps for the job) and fixed on the door furniture.
Dave planed it smooth and we checked it for fit. Then he put the hinges on the door edge and marked the places in the door frame to be chiselled out.
Just then, Leslie and Steve called by. While we made them tea ...
... Steve set to work on the chiselling, proving an unstoppable force ...
... that soon got the door hung ...
... and it still fitted perfectly.
Well, hopefully, this will be the Year of the Camper Truck - although moving in doesn't seem to be getting any closer. We've been getting things done, interspersed with having to get on with work in the boatyard, and have had a run of exceptional weather, which has delayed updates to this blog, as I've either been out working or at home eating and sleeping.
I thought I'd try to keep a record of any Greek words we add to our vocab, so here are a few: the Camper Truck is a 'Tro-ho-spito' - literally 'wheeled house' and the shed is either 'spitaki' (little house) or 'apothiki' (storehouse). Interestingly, apothiki must be the root for the word apothecary. At a recent visit to Constantine the architect we found out that linen store is 'linothiki' - where '-thiki' is the word for something that holds a gun: holster, perhaps.These little flowers have been popping up around us, enjoying the mild weather, and causing mayhem as we try not to step on them when heavily laden, or in a rush.
We had a run into Lefkas one day. I picked up this somewhat tedious if very useful item of equipment, and gave the deck a good brushing ...
... while Dave got this amazing Nimbus 2000* of a wood chopping axe, so we can get our olive wood cut to size for the stove.This is pretty well the only item we've bought in Greece where they didn't offer us a plastic bag - which we refuse whenever we can. But Dave was not prepared to walk out the shop with a great big axe over his shoulder, so we had to persuade them we really did want a bag for it.
*Harry Potter's fancy broomstick
Around about January 6th, a Thursday, when we'd been down the yard for most of three days, we couldn't help ourselves, and spent a day on the land.
The next job, we decided, was putting the door on the shed. This would mean we weren't having to unpin and re-pin polythene over the door space at every visit.
I didn't take enough photos of the process, but we cut two sides of ply, drilled out the holes for the handle and the lock, glued on the sides (which was a bit messy, as the ply wanted to buckle and we didn't have enough clamps for the job) and fixed on the door furniture.
Dave planed it smooth and we checked it for fit. Then he put the hinges on the door edge and marked the places in the door frame to be chiselled out.
Just then, Leslie and Steve called by. While we made them tea ...
... that soon got the door hung ...
... and it still fitted perfectly.
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