And here we go…
Off into 2020 with Christmas officially over and me back at the desk with an almost daily blog.
We have had a great time, and it’s hard to get back into the old routine. It’s become normal around here to be up late (i.e. 6.00 a.m. rather than 4.30, but that has been achieved at times), to work through the morning until midday and then spend the rest of the day hanging out on the sofa. We’re currently working our way through another series of Australian Survivor, having seen a couple already, plus every available episode of The Amazing race (USA, Canada and Australia), many films and other TV entertainment. The stockpile of treats has now dwindled to the strawberry ones no-one cares for much, and all that chocolate and laziness has ended up back in the belly area, so we need to start working on that with our daily walks… Soon. Honest.
The weather has been up and down. Dropping below 10 degrees outside the house and, somehow lower inside the house. We’ve had rain and thunderstorms, some days when we’ve not gone out of the house at all and made do with unlabelled surprises from the freezer, and others where the sun has been out and blazing the temperature up to 14 degrees. Meanwhile, the windows are condensated each morning, so need to be left open for a few hours, the bathroom roof is dripping with condensation, and I’ve de-moulded it once already, the towels never dry, and we put the heater in the bathroom for half an hour before the ‘shower-dash’ game on cold days.
There have also been parties and dinners, events and fun stuff over the holiday period. Christmas Eve and Day with the godboys (Godson #1 loves his piano, and lessons resume on Friday), ditto New Year’s Eve and Day when godson #2 cooked for us all, we’ve called at the bars a couple of times and been to a quiz night. All this, and I have very few photos to show for it.
And so on into the new year. It’s started well with a consolidation Act of the Greek Parliament, again spelling out the rights of British citizens in Greece after the end of the month and beyond: the law is already in place to protect those registered to live here before the bidet… I mean, B Day – brexshit day, which is a weight off the mind, though finer details of how and when we will become biometric are yet to be decided. I think that’s the part where your paper records, in my case going back to 2003, are somehow gathered, checked, ordered and turned into a plastic card with digital data rather than an old piece of card stuck inside my passport, but we’ll have to see.
There is other news and chat to be had, but not all in one day, so I will leave it for another time, try and find some photos and brighten up this ramble with then, and let you get on with 2020. All being well, I’ll be back tomorrow and onwards through the year (apart from March).
