Sunday Before Xmas

 9am. Looks like another grey day .

Today we are scrabbling to make new lists and get things done a day earlier.

We will be away all day Tuesday, Xmas Eve, at a family funeral on the island of Salamina. Weather permitting. There's a cold front coming in. Snow forecast further north. 

Tonight I'll make paté.

Later.  Done and potted. 

Tomorrow we have to pick up 3 x 20 kilo cardboard boxes of wine. 40 kilos of white and 20 of red. 

Thanks to son-in-law Yiannis. Do you think we will have enough! That's besides the 2 bottles of sauv blanc in the fridge. One Greek and one French. Maybe it will last till Easter. Hollow laugh. 

We made a Christmas visit to neighbours elderly Vaso and her son Vangelis. I filled up a container of Xmas cookies that K had baked and a loaf of sweet bread called tsoureki. The latter from the baker. 

Vaso is still strong in body, lighter up top, staying beside the fire on cold winter days. 

They have an orchard of lemon, mandarin, orange and pomegranates. Vangelis gave me a bag of mandarins and told me to come back and pick more. I shall do that after Xmas. 

Evening

The sun came out but the day was chilly. We lit the fire around midday and sat comfortably watching TV and doing chores. 

K got a phone call from the meat 'boutique' in Nafplio where he had ordered a pigs head. No pig head available!

Imagine me doing a happy dance!, 

They were selling them for 6 euros a whole head. Obviously trying to get rid of them. And they did. 

We ended the day with cheap Lidls whisky and paté on crackers.