I’m not hanging around here for long this morning, there’s too much to do: housework, bits of shopping, peeling vegetables, going to the dentist…
Sadly yes. I had a tooth fall in half yesterday lunchtime which resulted in a going ‘off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of teeth,’ aka Vasilis, at seven last night. He told me it was an old root canal which is why it wasn’t hurting, and took half of it out there and then; well, it kind of fell out, and he discovered two pieces of ‘wire’ left in from when the work had been done. Apparently that’s quite common. So this morning, in about two hours’ time I am going back to have the rest of it taken out. No peanut brittle for me on Christmas Day!
While out and about yesterday though (still trying to track down this delivery for Neil which doesn’t seem to have reached anywhere here yet), I caught a couple of snaps on the camera. The nativity scene in the garden at To Steno in Yialos, the cat on duty at the Windmill in Horio, the village square, empty and quiet and the view from Elpida’s café where we had coffee while she was cooking an apple cake.
It was all very quiet out and about yesterday, a lot of people are away for Christmas, there are only a few tavernas open (two that I can immediately think of, and three souvlaki places), the shops in town are still open, mostly, but there’s hardly anyone in them.
Oh, and news from the town hall, via the dentist’ chair, is that it’s all going well with the new team and everyone is working hard on the paperwork needed to raise money as there is no money and what little there is requires acres of forms filled out.
Right, so I have to go and prepare myself for Christmas Eve and what may come: tooth extraction and tomato soup I think. I probably won’t be blogging tomorrow, so have a great Christmas if you celebrate it, be peaceful and remember to stay calm, it’s a celebration!
I’ll be back on Monday.
