Summer Prep

 6 - 10 May 2021

The end of lockdown is in sight, at last.  We are doing lots of jobs around the house and boat to get ready for the summer.

 First lily appears in the pond

Our exotic new plant 'Captain Cook's Cabbage' or NZ spinach seems to be settling in.  It is a perennial edible and ground cover, so we've planted about five out around the Moringa beds.

The broad (fava) bean harvest continues.  We are a little overwhelmed by the quantities of beans we have grown over the winter.  After a couple of long sessions podding, we made bean burger mix and bean hummus mix and put them in the freezer.  Beans to eat for a long time yet!

In the pond, distorted by pollen in the water, we saw one tadpole that was undergoing 'the change'.  Hope there are more of them that made it.  They all disappear before changing usually, and we don't know if something is eating them, or they are just hiding very carefully.

A lovely shot of the house through apple blossom

Our boat-kittens, getting to the stage where they want to explore.  We had set aside a cardboard box for a rescue operation, when we were told that the mother cat had relocated them all to a power-boat on the opposite side of the pontoon.

 

Work on the boat - fitting the new bimini, and then tying it up against the wind.  All fitting perfectly.

Hurrah!  We are allowed to eat out.  First off was supper in George's, then I had my first jab and decided to miss out on all the openings and celebrations, but some days later, we had a civilized lunch at Flisvos, after juices in Elite, then drinks at Arnie's, and finally back to George's for dinner, as we no longer wanted to cook that evening.  Lots of fun.

This is the current state of the high street in Nydri.  Lots of work still to do, and we are now open to tourists from the EU and some other countries.  A litigant's dream

Dave suddenly decided to remove the masking tape from around the little triangle window above the bedroom door.  It's been two years, but very glad that it's finally done.