The Good Times

A family birthday 

Another celebration in the summer of corona-virus

We are  free to come and go but with social distancing, lots of handwashing and commonsense.  However, already we have new clusters around the country of fresh corona cases as family members fly back from the USof A, Germany, greet other family members in the usual mediterranean  cheek-kissing-hugging fashion and then circulate in cafeterias and tavernas greeting long lost friends the same way.  Never mind the  beach parties down on the island of Mykonos where the dancers and revellers are jam packed like sunburnt sardines.

And in a weeks time the country opens up for foreign tourists.  The english, the Italians, the Germans and the Spanish will be welcomed but hopefully only at five paces and with bottles of handwash

In the meantime our family life is back, more or less to normal.

Birthdays and name days are together times

This time it was a birthday.  

Setting the long table

The boys doing what boys do best.........

Filling bottles with wine from the family barrels

A 3 1/2 kilo octopus hanging out to dry before it goes on the coals

Of course there was dancing

And birthday cake

Cheesecake, homemade by the girls

The boys turn to fill the bottles

BBQing is thirsty work

And in the middle of all these noisy celebrations there was a zing as my phone received a whatsap message from downunder.

We had another family birthday to celebrate, a beautiful baby boy had just been delivered  to bring even greater joy and lots of 'sniff-sniffs' on my part.

We have lots of clusters of birthdays in our family. June has a small cluster, October has another and November-December is a huge cluster of birthdays .

And 26 is a number which pops up throughout the year.

Family!