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 What's up?  With the second round of elections Greece re-elected the New Democracy party with a safe majority.

The day ended in thunderstorms and heavy rain.  It was so nice, maybe the last time for many months, to go to sleep listening to the rain beating on the tiles.  Today of course is a sunshiney day but very humid.  

Good for my nasturtiums.  The tomatoes didn't get battered and the pumpkin plants grew an inch overnight.  All's well in the garden.

We are still getting dust clouds though the rain this time seems to have been cleaner and washed away the orange streaks on the car.  The last dust cloud  covered most of southern europe and even reached the Carribean.  I sometimes wonder how much sand is actually left in the Sahara.

Almost the last of the roses but they seem to have revived with the rain too.  The plant behind it is a bougainvillia.  The no-thorn variety

Oregano

We have been given bunches and bunches by neighbours and I have a thriving pot of oregano in the garden.

These bunches are hanging out in the shed to dry

The last of the rugs have been washed, hung out to dry on the garden gate and are now stored away till November

The water pipe down the side of our road broke for the umpteenth time.  At this spot the pipe has broken 3 times in the last few months.  It usually takes them 3 weeks to get round to fixing a leak.

This is not just a leak!  We put this video on instagram, facebook and sent it to the Mayor. the 'gang' was here before 8 the next morning to fix it.  But I wonder how long it will hold.