Birthdays and sunshine!

We are still getting lots of sunshine and are able to sit in the garden most afternoons to enjoy it.

We are heading for Mr D’s birthday on Sunday and, as usual, we are planning a bit a of feast over a couple of days.

A few kilometres from us is a lovely restaurant called The Farmyard.  We have enjoyed several Chinese meals there, which is part of the menu as well as more Cyprus traditional.

Although they had to close in one of the lockdowns and they lost their chef they are now able to have take away meals and with new chefs they are able to have some service so we will be collecting our meal to enjoy.

Can’t wait.

We have been building up ingredients to use in our wok, the local supermarket has quite a range and we love it.

Some years ago when we first got the wok we spent ages getting oils, spices, weird and wonderful veg. The latest addition is prawn crackers, which I cooked as a side dish the other evening.  Very odd the way they cook, nothing happens and then suddenly they appear and puff up and take.over the hob.

I am being a baby at the moment because for about a week I have had a splinter embedded in the top of my right index finger. Ouch.  Antiseptic every day but not much happening.

I am on the finishing off stage of my knitting and looking forward to that. It has been a long road.

The garden is a great source of patience and soothing.  

I got some tubs for growing runner beans and garden peas.  Can’t wait for the seeds to germinate.

I am very excited about our lemon trees, which we got about four months ago, followed by the orange tree. 

They are all showing sign of blossom 

 If you look carefully about half way down on the left hand side you can just see the start of orange blossom!

The top picture shows our very own lemons, with the second tree coming into its own with tiny blossom waiting to bloom.

We are expecting another announcement from the government tomorrow and will know what, if any, changes are going to be made.  We still have to sent out a SMS message to get permission to leave the house.  As I have said before we try and make just one journey a week but it is still bloody irritating.

I have just re-read this blog and it seems a bit all over the place.  Don’t know why but maybe it is one of my chaos days.

My special thoughts go out to my very dear friend in this very difficult time. I can’t be with you but be sure I am in spirit. x