Sunday, 30 December 2012

Picking Olives

Friday 14 Dec


Because of the potential dispute over ownership of the olive trees we have been reluctant to take any action.  But it is a fantastic year for olives, and heartbreaking to see ours falling wastefully to the ground.


 We seriously considered buying some more olive nets, but the proper ones come on a 4 x 20 metre roll from Lefkas town – which would droop out of the back of the van and scrape along the road.   I got as far as buying a roof-rack for the Punto, but then I couldn’t afford the nets.  So, we set to work to pick the remaining olives: Dave using our old nets, moved from tree to tree, while thwacking with a stick, and I did the ‘yia-yia’ (grandmother) job of picking fallen ones from the ground one by one.  Here's my bucket after the first half hour - a slow process!

 
Then we went out for the evening to see Robbie and Sue in gold lamé at the premier of their latest blockbuster – ‘Titanic II, the second sinking’  Look for it on YouTube. 


 
  

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