Monday 7th November

Monday is bowls day although only for me.  The delivery man was due to fit the new sink for the downstairs bathroom with a scheduled arrival at 1000.  Much to our surprise an early phone call is received to say the ‘Bannister Man’ was coming to fit the new bannister at 0900!  Two sets of workmen at the same time working in a very small space.  Good job I  am excused.

By the time I returned from bowls all work was completed and hopefully you can see from the picture an improvement.  Although both of the originals ‘worked’ these look a lot better.  Lillian is pleased and as the orchestrator of the work its just as well!  We really have not much else to do to get ourselves sorted.  Just the search for curtains for downstairs which again I will let Lillian ‘take the strain’.

Enjoyed the morning at bowls.  The sun was shining and it felt quite warm.  Temperatures did register 76F in the afternoon.  There was a good crowd present and I was greeted with the normal with the normal “Where’s Lillian?”.  I explained about the workers and told them we had to toss a coin to see who would come to bowls and that I had lost.  Some laughed although I am not sure all understand my sense of humour. With 34 members present all the mats were full and by luck of the draw for the second successive game I was drawn to play against ‘Super Bob’ who again by luck of the draw he was in the position of ‘Skip’ where he could direct all and then deliver the telling winning bowl.  After 8 ends my team were struggling 4-13 and the match was destined to be a loss even though we had all bowled well until Bob persistently scattered all our bowls placing his next to the jack.  “A good game to win” I said and sure enough that is exactly what we did winning 10 points in the last three ends to win 14-13 creating much noise and laughter as our skip, a lady called Joan delivered the final winning shot.  A fantastic come back and a first victory against a team with ‘Super Bob’ as a member.  The second game was always going to be an anti-climax after the fun of the first and a narrow defeat 10-12.

A lazy afternoon enjoying the sunshine with a quick trip to the ‘Kite Beach’ to collect some stones.  Almost one side of the garden complete.  Of course some ‘digging for Charlie’ about which we have become obsessive.  It is amazing how quickly it re-appears in areas which you think you have cleared.  It has such a strong network of runners as a root system.  It is a good job though we are keeping at it.  Next door’s garden looks a mess.

As darkness fell which starts to come now at about 16.45 a necessary trip to Lidl in Larnaca to stock up for the pending visit from the Plastows on Wednesday.  Usual evening in .......... only 3 more episodes of  ‘The Wire’ to go.  With 65 gone the story still springs surprises, the latest being the demise of Omar which was totally unsuspected!