Rantings

The vet rang yesterday. It is a histiocytoma after all, so I can now relax. :-)

On a lighter note, Ian came home tonight with Sonny after walking him and told me that he (Sonny) had made his first kill! Aargh! I've never had a dog that killed anything! Biff's caught lots of things but didn't hurt any of them and let them all go once she got bored. Sonny killed a rabbit outright and brought it back to show Ian, but the rotten scone wouldn't bring it home with him!! Harrumph! I'd have brought it home and put it in a pie. I love rabbit. But not Ian. He said he didn't think he could eat anything that he had just seen killed. The daft sod. If that was the case I'd have shared the pie with Sonny.

Some of you who have been reading my blog from before November will know that my beloved seventeen year old pooch, Biff, died quietly in my arms after battling cancer for several months.

Last night, Sonny, my two and a half year old Border Collie dog was playing with Ian when he (Ian!) noticed that he had a lump on his leg. I've just got back from the vet surgery. As he's had breakfast this morning they can't take it off today, so he's got to go back tomorrow morning to have it taken off and sent to the labs. Please keep your fingers crossed that it turns out to be benign. I don't think I could take losing another dog to cancer so soon.

Well, that about wraps it up for the photo entries. I'd just like to say a big thank you to Aris and Lula for making us feel so welcome, and for anyone else wanting to visit Kefalonia, go to Katelios Studios in Katelios!! You won't be disappointed!

The owners of the studios. From right to left: Lula, Georgio, Georgio's girlfriend (never did learn her name), and Aris.

And I don't want you see my sunburned nose, either!

No, I don't want my picture taken!!

A view across to Assos on a clear day.

This is the monastery. Very very pretty.

... and ostriches. Hang on a sec ... ostriches?!! For reasons no doubt only known to the monks, these were kept at the Monastery of Agios Gerasimou.

... wild goats ...

... a gecko ...

... swallowtails ...

.... an swallows ...

There were cute little lizards everywhere!

Our first night there and already we were being introduced to the locals at our front door!

Well, I'm back. Came back on Sunday, actually, but didn't get my photos transferred from camera to PC till now ... you know how it is ... too much laundry and unpacking to do, shopping, family to visit, etc! Our apartment was nice and clean, though basic ... which is all we expected for the money we paid! Still, there was a nice cool pool and a bar, so what more could we ask for? And to top it off, our favourite restaurant, Persa's Taverna, was just over the road. We hired a car for the full two weeks so we got to travel around the island quite a bit. Photos to follow shortly. I guess the only bad thing I have to say about Kefalonia is it has far too many mosquitoes. I'm still taking antihistamines even now!

Well, I'm off on my jollies tomorrow. It's been a while since my last entry, and to be honest I've been so busy washing, ironing and packing, I've been too tired to post an entry the past couple of days anyway. Still, off to the Med I go, to soak up the sun, drink cold beer, and eat lots of my favourite rabbit stifado!

So, enjoy, folks! Behave while I'm gone, and maybe there'll be some interesting photos to show you when I get back!

Toodle-oo!

I'm seriously thinking of building one of these when I go to Kefalonia in a week's time!

Click on the image to go to the website.

My new greenhouse!

It's erected and glazed and nearly all finished! We got this greenhouse for free, so it was quite a bargain. Ian is currently building me shelves and potting tables, and one of them is in use already! I'm so excited ... I have transferred my tomatoes, peppers and chilies to the greenhouse, so we'll see what happens. :-)

On a not so good note ... my new RAM seems to be faulty. The bigger hard drive runs like a dream, but my pooter won't boot up from HD or CDRom when the new RAM is in, so obviously I had to remove it. I'll be leaving in an hour to go to my therapy appointment and will stop off at the repair shop on the way, so I'll keep you posted as to what's happening. Ho hum.

UPDATE: The bloke at the repair shop tried it in my laptop and his own and it did exactly the same thing in both of them ... which is nothing. No booting up, nothing. So he tried another one with exactly the same results. Needless to say, they are going back to the manufacturer, and hopefully he will have one that works for me tomorrow. I'm going over there tomorrow lunch time to pick it up.

Sorry for the quiet period, folks. My hard drive died without warning, so my pooter has been in the pooter hospital having a hard drive transplant and memory enhancement treatment.

It is now recovering, with lots of TLC, and I should be back blogging as usual once I have all my necessary software installed.

TTFN