All smiles at the start of the game!

It rained during Saturday night - not that we saw it only the resultant puddles on the road on Sunday morning.  The first since April if memory serves right.

Some events since last posting.

A trip to Kyrenia in the north for a night stay and a game of golf with Geoff and Hazel at their club.  First game for Lillian and i since June and it showed, well in my game with 7 lost balls on the very tight course meant a poor score.  But it was all fun except for some of the hills.  Having elected to walk instead of a  buggy cart was a brave decision with us gasping for breath on more than one occasion.

Each year the village of Pervolia has a Charity week.  Events are created at may of the restaurants and bars in the village to raise funds to help those less fortunate in the area.  It is a sign of the times when supermarkets have large perspex containers past the check-outs where shoppers can donate foodstuff that they have just bought.  So on Friday night it was a 'Dutch Auction' of various gifts given by regulars that would make attractive 'parcels' of prizes to bid for.  We had nothing that we could think would be useful so after a meal in Pyrgos determined to be charitable and make some good donations we joined the fun, helped by more than a few beers.  If you have not been to a Dutch Auction there are a number of methods but this was designed to raise the maximum amount of cash in the shortest time.  Hosted by Nat, the landlady of the The Cottage, who did a fantastic job, she first selected a number of gifts that had been donated to make an attractive package.  Bidding started at anything from 10 cents to 5 Euros depending on the prize. So whoever bid say 10 cents placed the 10 cents in the bucket, the next bidder who perhaps raised the stake to 20 cents put 20 cents in the bucket and so on.  It was easy to get carried away and soon place a lot of cash into the bucket.  Everyone was in good spirits and it was all a lot of fun with over 2000 Euros being raised by the end of the evening.  We had contributed well and come home with some 'junk' and a voucher for a meal at Pyrgos!  We will enjoy it as we spent enough to go there 5 times!  Still a good cause.

Late Saturday afternoon saw a special bowls event when people from the town of Kiti were invited to try bowls for the first time.  About 20 turned up, many not speaking English so Lillian was a star with her greek. After a couple of hours of fun, which seemed to be enjoyed by all it was locals time to entertain with three games of bingo (numbers called in greek as well as English) and kebabs and pitta from the BBQ all held in the meeting hall.  It was a good event.

Sunday ...... with the pool temperature reading only 20C it was probably the last swim of the year. Managed 6 lengths before saying enough ...... believe me the hot tub felt roasting afterwards.