Friday 11th November 11.11.11

Up early to the normal blue skies and sunshine although it disappeared by 1000 to be once again cloudy and overcast.  Whilst I was doing my normal pottering about in the garden Lillian announced she was going to walk to the local mini-market store to get milk.  I suggested they took the bikes and so they set off for what should be a quick trip.  After about 15 minutes when they had not returned I wondered where they were thinking perhaps they had gone for a longer ride.


Suddenly Nick returned to say bring tissues and the car as Lillian had fallen off her bike and had a nose bleed. We raced to the scene to find poor Lillian sitting / lying by the kerbside covered in blood from her nose with cut hands, knees and thighs.  Once in the car she was soon home and cleaned up.  Fortunately it was all 'superficial' damage and she cleaned up 'quite well' although not complaining the grazes on her legs look real sore and she now has a cracker of a black eye.  As ever she is very brave so uncomplaining I think just trying to get out of the fitness campaign once again.  First her toe and now this!


How did she fall?  Lillian says it happened all too quickly was going at a tight angle sideways up a ramped kerb and the bike just slipped away from her.  

Once we had breakfasted and Lillian felt 'repaired' we took the drive along the coastal road to Zygi to visit the garden centre as Lillian has 'Improvement Plans' for some new planting.  Just window shopping I took the coastal track where we ride our bikes on the way back so we could drive close to the water.  We stopped to collect some more stones and walk on the small sandy stretch of the beach.  We walked Lillian limped.  The water was calm and there were lovely views.  Playing with my new camera for the picture seen here.  Back home it was stone arrangement and I am now only one more trip away from completing the 'White Stone project'.


Chris and Nick are ardent football fans (season ticket holders at West Ham) so we spent the evening going to our first international football match.  Cyprus v Scotland played in a stadium in Larnaca.  Scot supporters were there in force and sitting with them was quick a funny but friendly experience.  Many had clearly had a few beverages before the game and one wonders what the Cypriots thought of them in their kilts, football shirts and St Andrews flags wrapped around them.  It was an OK game and the Cyprus team played well, although Scotland deserved to win.  A new experience.