Waterproofing

Sunday 23 Dec

Dave has found out the hard (damp and cold) way that his waterproofs aren’t.  We’ve been waiting weeks for delivery of re-waterproofing solution, which finally arrived by the skin of its teeth on Friday.  Despite the wet weather, Dave wanted to get this done, so we washed them on Saturday, drip-dried overnight under the awning and sprayed on Sunday.  The weather is all set to clear up on Monday!

Then we finished the olive harvest.  Storms over the weekend had brought down this many olives into the nets we’d moved under the largest tree.  We had asked Spiros at Mamma Mia if he knew anyone who would prune our seriously overgrown olive trees and he’d said he’d get someone to come as soon as it was dry.  We would then be able to get the last olives off the fallen branches.  We didn’t want to wait too long as the olives in the sacks start to deteriorate and can go bitter if left too long.   

I am amazed by the colour in the olives – they are a rich maroon purple on light apple green – not black as expected.