Wednesday 11th January 2012

The beach on a grey day

A morning trip to IKEA in Lefkosia (Nicosia) sees us return with a roller blind for the kitchen and a good stock of candles.  We have become somewhat connoisseurs on candle buying since the days when we nearly burnt Lincoln Road down with wax from a cheap Christmas candles and without a doubt those IKEA candles are great.  they burn well and give very little in terms of wax dribbling down the side.

The road to Lefkosia is a good run and we are there in 30 minutes passing two lots of police cars with speed guns.  For both I sailed past at 120km /hr where the speed limit is 100 km/hr.  Letter in the post?  It is a ridiculously low speed for such a good road.  Lillian made the outward journey amusing me by phoning Stefanos, the Quality Group engineer and giving him a hard time about the state of the road.  Lillian has a great style at being politely assertive whereas I would just get stroppy if I spoke with him.  However they as in QG still await a new permit to complete so we are getting nowhere.

Back home I decided to spray the mud and rubbish from the wheel arches to find the the attachment to join the hose to the tap was missing. Somebody has come in and stolen it can be the only answer.  Our first lost and can only be down to one of the contractors.  A bit of a worry but the hose will go in the cupboard when we levee on Friday just in case they come back for that!  I borrowed the attachment from the tap at the pool and put it back when I had finished!  A clean car ...... until we go out again.

A call from the heating engineer to 'play' with the dials on the underfloor heating again as some areas are not working.  (As I write this it is still not in our bedroom!)  Where it is as on the landing upstairs bedrooms, except ours and the study it is great and the tiles are lovely and warm.

The afternoon is spent with preparation again for the work I will do in Doha, Lillian helping reading documentation and making notes.  Blind fixed in the kitchen and although it looks nice the locking mechanism does not work well and it is hard to keep the blind in a middle position as it gradually slides down.  A shame but we can live with it either up or down.  Lillian left at 1900 to go to Greek lessons and I followed later meeting her and 3 other class members for a drink and meal in Bar Coast.

Back home to listen to the second half of the Ipswich game for them to lose yet again 1-2 with the winning goal scored  in the 94th minute.  They have a relegation battle now.  Sack the manager.