What Is Happening In My Little World Today Then!

Everything in the garden is growing.

Courgettes doing their stuff.

Radishes coming along nicely.

Lemon flowering.

 

Rhubarb putting on a spurt in the sun.

Lettuce looking yummy.

Tomatoes swelling.

Seedlings reaching up toward the sun.

A bean emerging from the soil.

A pepper stretching out.

Strawberries for tea maybe?

A very large wasp of some sort enjoying the sun. He was well over an inch long!!! Think I will stay well clear of him.

Lastly a very tomato faced tortoise causing havoc again. Think we should have called him RAMBO and not Sandy.

In answer to Mary’s Comment.

 

When I first started this quilt my children were very young and it was going to be a cot quilt. however as it took me so long to do my children grew so it progresses to a single quilt. Then it went onto become a double quilt and then it was put away for a lot of years.

We then packed up home and left for Crete. Me taking along my quilt, however now we have a king-sized bed, so it had to grow accordingly. If you look at the photos you can see the various stages.

This is the centre and the cot size

The blue band takes it to single bed size

The flowers take it to double bed size

And finally the double blue takes it to king –size.

This is what I sat doing last night.

Taking out loads of tacking and papers. Some of these papers have been in the quilt for donkey years.

Cya

Judith

Yes! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m skipping and dancing and clapping. Can you guess what for????????????????????????????????

Yes, after 35 long years I have finished my hexagon quilt top. Just need the wadding and backing attached and its all done. How long do you think that is going to take? Are we taking bets on this?

Lucky has claimed her place on the quilt as she always does.

I have quite a few hexagons left over and I can’t let these go to waste so I have an idea. Will tell you all about that at a later date when I have my quilt all done and dusted so to speak.

 

Anyway must go and admire my lovely hexie quilt now. You know cuddle it and stroke it and run my eyes over it.

Cya

Judith.

x

When we went visiting.

We called into see John today to return his drill that we borrowed. Here are John and Ian relaxing in the shade as it is so hot just now. John’s relaxed  so much he has his eyes shut. He told Jenny he was coming over to work on some jobs in and around their house.
 
There are loads of geraniums growing alongside of the path coming from Jenny's house


A lovely arched entrance

Kind of a steep path but it’s ok going down.  However it’s good exercise going up. It really does make you fit……………………… to drop.


and rampant grape vines.

A nice colourful entrance.
This is the same village that  Jude lives in. It’s much bigger than ours.

What a Lovely Sky

The other evening when we were watering the garden we had this lovely sight

 

Nothing beats a glorious sunset unless its a fantastic sunrise.

The Sun is Shining and the Garden is Growing.

Well,  in the middle of March  we set about getting our newly acquired garden ready for planting. I took before and after pictures as it was rotorvated and planted, but alas when I got home I found that I had forgotten to put in the card so no pictures. (SILLY ME)

Anyway here it is now

We have potatoes, tomatoes, courgette, onions, okra, peas, beans, aubergines, cucumber and beans.

At home in our little garden above the house we have lettuce, a few tomatoes, peppers, a couple of courgette and yesterday I planted some spring onions, radish and some carrot. The carrots I have planted have small round roots not long tapering ones as the garden is very stony and they would just fork.

I also have some lettuce seeds growing in pots. I only take a pinch of seed and only get about 6 or seven plants at a time, then a few weeks later I do the same again so we don’t get gluts all at once.

Oh! and I have some strawberries in pots and they are flowering away to themselves. So it will be strawberries and cream soon folks.

Well it looks like another shorts and strappy top day today. Must go and enjoy the sun with a nice cool drink.

Cya.

Volcanic Ash Cloud.

We went to a talk last week on the subject of Santorin's earthquake. It was very interesting and we where told about all the volcanic ash and pumice that was spewed out into the atmosphere, and here we are now with a cloud of volcanic ash crippling Europe.

We have my niece and partner here on holiday and they where supposed to fly back home on Friday 16th April. They both should have started work again today after the Easter holidays. No such luck!

So there are a lot of holiday makers stranded here. Now they are talking about shipping them home as the airports remain closed.

This is a terrible start to the holiday season here as last year was bad also. We need the tourists for our jobs to be safe. No tourists, no jobs, no money.

never mind we are still having a good time going out eating drinking and been merry.

Iraklion

I have family here for a weeks holiday and we have been going here and there for the last few days.

On Tuesday we went to Iraklion for the day and believe me when I say we walked our feet off.  As you can see it was a lovely sunny day.

We walked the streets and inspected loads of shops.

Saw some nice architecture.

And some not so well preserved.

All in all we had a good day. Bought a few goodies and returned home a little bit weary but happy.

Our Easter Sunday

After Lucky’s ordeal with the loud bangs from all the fireworks Saturday night. She was shaking like a leaf literally. We decided to go out on Sunday for the afternoon and take a picnic.



We went to Driros just across the mountains from us. This is an archaeology site. See here.
We had a wander around and found someone had been digging a pit.


It was very quiet. Just what the doctor ordered.



There has been some activity there. Don’t know what they where looking for.


Some very structural plants. Rather smelly ones too.
We spent a few pleasant hours there and Lucky enjoyed it too.

Walking with Lucky.

Still plenty of oranges around. I am quite surprised that there are so many what with the winds we had the yesterday.

There are loads of flowers starting to bloom.

The spring in our village. People come and fill their water bottles from here.

A big big cactus. It’s a prickly pear.

The olive trees have been pruned and this will be next years firewood.

These last 2 photos are down in Neapoli. This wisteria is just massive. it is so pretty sprawling through the trees and running riot and I mean riot in the whole garden.