All in A week

This week and a bit of last week

One morning we were startled by 3 gunshots very close at hand.  All morning there had been sounds of a goat bleating so we knew what had happened.  A goat had encroached on our neighbour's land and paid with its life for the invasion of private property.  

This guy has warned us that he'd shoot at anything that entered his territory.  Unfortunately there's no way of warning the goats.  The property is fenced in but they just butt it down.

He's been brought up on the land so the goat was hung up, skinned and butchered and left to 'ripen'.  That's country life.  Illegal, but who's going to know.  The goats are wild and fairplay.

We were given a leg of goat a few days later.  I hope it's not tough and smelly.  It was a big billy goat so probably needs a bit of boiling.

The closest fire this year.  

Away on the mainland, very near one of the villages and across the road from the house of a family friend.  Fortunately it was put out in good time and the wind carried the smoke away from the village.

The last of our monthly meetings with grandchildren, and their Mums at the Navy beach.  The canteen/taverna closes down in a few days.

Papous has been very happy this summer to be able to gather all the kids together.  It hasn't been easy.  They are all either working or doing summer school.

They'll all be here till the end of September.  Then summer jobs finish, universities open and there is work to be found in the big city.  

Kiwi friends sailed in on a yacht for a few days of Poros life.

That looked like a stable concrete quay.  It wasn't!  A passing hydrofoil caused enough waves to move the whole darn structure.  I thought I was having a dizzy attack and scuttled for terra firma after the photo.

And just look what they had in their suitcases.

A kilo of the best NZ peanut butter and real NZ marmite made by the Sanitarium Company since 1919.  And that wasn't all

I had just finished a jar of vegemite .  It was the first time I could tell the difference in taste.  There is a huge difference.   I was loving the vegemite but after a few days I was firmly back on the Marmite wagon.

Thank you so much Jenny, Roger and Lynley.  

Jenny for knowing what we need (also Raro drink powder and a New World shopping bag!)

Lynley and Roger for hauling it all across to the other side of the world.

These two are seasoned sailors.  They hoist the sails and, hopefully,  run before the wind .

Blue skies and fair winds to you and your crew as you sail around the Greek isles, on your annual Greek Odyssey. 

Life on a small greek island was not just coffee drinking and people watching this week