Evil Under the Sun

A few days ago I posted  the photo below on instagram.

I was making this years supply of a liqueur made from red wine and rose geranium leaves

1 1/2 litres red wine, 300 grams sugar, a big bunch of fragrant rose geranium leaves and a cinnamon stick.  Simple and you get a light aromatic liqueur

 

So who put the evil eye on me?

The jar has to stand, preferably in the sun, for about a month.

I had the big jar on the bench and decided a better place for it would be the windowsill.

I lifted it up and carefully started to place it in the new sunny position.  The jar exploded.  One and a half litres of syrupy liqueur ran through the window rails, down the wall, under the radiator, the couch and down the outside wall.  Ye gods and little fishes, I couldn't believe it.

It took me over an hour to clear up the mess.  I had to change the mopping water three times.  I had to move furniture, the 25 kilos of bugless flour and half a dozen six packs of water.   

You can imagine the cleaning up involved in sopping up a litre and a half of sticky liquid and cleaning out those rails that the windows slide along.  I even had to get the hose out and spray water all over the outside wall and the tiles on the balcony.

Evil eye.  Maybe, maybe not.

I named this post 'Evil under the Sun' .  Later, after all that damn cleaning I was looking on youtube for another recipe, for K's favourite, cuttlefish and spinach and what should pop as a google suggestion but Agatha Christie's audio book 'Evil Under the Sun'.  And lo and behold the exact same Agatha Christie play was on TV that night.  I don't know quite what all that points to but there was evil lurking around our house that day so I said a few heebie jeebies, crossed myself a few times and spat three times as well.

The day started off with a warning sound from K's phone that something was moving on our ibank account.  Hackers had got into one of our cards and were having a spending spree.  He got on the phone immediately and sorted that out but it took ages waiting in phone queues and then he had to make a trip to our local bank as well.  Not such a simple operation in these days of covid-19.

Today our world is quieter.  

I am going to make another batch of that liqueur.  We have plenty of red wine and I have another big jar.  This time I won't take any photos and I won't be posting on social media.

spit spit spit

evil eye be gone

Oh and by the way, I added a shot glass of ouzo to the cuttlefish (like big kalamari) and my traditional person was over the moon.