Jane's VrahassiJane's VrahassiVrahassi, a mountain village in the East of Crete whose inhabitants claim that both Turk and German invaders were kept out. Jane Sharp, an English woman who was not kept out, writes a daily account of her life in Vrahassi. Articles
HOSPITAL AGAIN!
2007-07-20 07:54:00 Haven't much time this morning, rushing to get ready to go to Ag Nik hospital again with my foot. Have to pick up blood test results for my Thyroid so will try to see an Orthopedic Chap too. Pain killers do help. Talk later. More About: Hospital , Spit
IN DESPERATION!
2007-07-17 13:49:00 Gavin and Rosemary, I know you will think I'm thick but I can't get my photos to attach to e-mail. I don't know why I've done it many times before. So just hoping that you read the blog soon, this is what your house looks like at the moment.See you in September. Oh and I have made an appointment with an orthopedic chappie. More About: Desperation
OUR HOUSE IS SOLD
2007-07-16 08:54:00 OUR HOUSE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A LOVELY ENGLISH COUPLE FROM CHESHIRE, CINDY AND PETE. CONGRATULATIONS YOU TWO YOU HAVE YOURSELVES A FABULOUS OLD STONE HOUSE IN VRAHASSI.Before you all ask 'where are you going to live?' there is no panick, as yet. Cindy and Pete have put a deposit on the house and it may be a couple of months' before they move out here. Meanwhile David and I are going to renovate our little one up, one down cottage just a little down the road so that we can move in to that while we do up the bigger house that we bought a couple of years ago, further up the mountain but still in Vrahassi.It is all very exciting. Sure I am a little sad to leave this house because it has been our protector for 13 years, our neighbours are great, it is a quiet street, and the view from our roof terrace is 'katapliktiko' another Greek word for you - means 'fantastic'. But, onwards and upwards as they say.Our first step now is to apply for electricity to the 'little house'. In fact Da... More About: House , Sold , Ouse
NO BULSHIT BLOG!
2007-07-16 08:13:00 BIRTHDAY BARBECUE FOR JANE AND MARKIt is Monday. I missed a whole day yesterday recovering from the night before. No I wasn't hung over, just very, very tired and my foot HURT so much. But it was a great night and there was lots of food and lots of dancing.I really have to thank so many people for their help: first my daughter, Joanne, for helping me chop all those tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and onions, (enough for 100 people). Second, Jerry (and hubby Graham) who helped to dish it all out. Then there was Lefteris, our neighbour, who ran about taking orders and serving the food and drink, of course George on barbecue duty.But mainly I want to thank all those friends who turned up for the evening and brought dishes of this and that to help me out with the food. I seemed to be so busy that I didn't get chance to chat to many people. The band played on and the circle of dance wheeled throughout the evening. And at 2 a.m. when everybody had gone home, Pauline, my very good friend sp... More About: Blog
EXCELLENT FOOD
2007-07-13 09:12:00 This is becoming a habit! We dined out yet again last night and had another fantastic meal. This time we went to PARADOSIAKO a restaurant on the harbour in Sissi. We sat right on the edge of the sea, Jack, Jo, John, David and Mum, and we ate lamb. It was Kleftiko actually, which is a very Greek dish. It got it's name from the days when the Greek people were fighting the Turks. Bandits living in the mountains used to cook lamb, which they had stolen, over coals in a hole in the ground which they covered over and left for 24 hrs. There was no trace of the stolen lamb and no smell of cooking meat to give them away.Our lamb was served in parcels of baking paper. Inside the parcel there was a huge chunk of lamb and potatoes, succulent and very tasty. The house red, we found extremely good and served at the right temperature.It's muggy weather today, a bit overcast, a bit windy, very warm. We are going to take the family to Ag Nik this afternoon where they can go to the beach while Dave... More About: Food , Lent , Excellent
10 JULY BIRTHDAY FUN
2007-07-11 09:45:00 What on earth is going on in Vrahassi this morning. There must be every electric van on the street, cables, men up ladders, lots of noise and busing about, someone said something about cutting down trees but that may be another gang of men. Whatever it's very bustly. (George hasn't surfaced yet, he's missing it all).Oops! Speak of the Devil, here he is with his morning coffee (it's five to eleven). What can I say? "Good morning." I'm not hung over so I'm sure he isn't. I'll go and have my elevensies with him.Oh dear, George has made my chocolate with off milk so, not to offend him I've come back to the office saying that I will drink it while I work.I had wonderful birthday celebrations over the past two days and again on Saturday. The day before yesterday I went out with the ladies and last night David, George, Joanne, Jack, John and I had a special dinner in Sissi. Once again we went to Mamma Mia's where the steak was the best we had tasted since we came to Crete 13 year... More About: Birthday , July
FOOT CURED!
2007-07-09 08:01:00 It feels like a miracle! I got up this morning in exactly the same state of pain as I was in 2 months' ago. Hoping that one more day of rest would sort it. I took a bath and soaked my feet in hot water. I sat on the bed to dry my feet, took hold of 'poorly foot' and it went 'click', just like that, 'click'. For a minute I wondered, could that possibly be it. Dare I put my foot to the ground. But I did and the pain had gone. Just like that it had disappeared. I couldn't believe it. I had kept saying that the pain felt like I wanted to break my foot and release something, like the links of a chain that get out of synch. Now, whether it was Bryan with his ultrasound treatment that I had yesterday, or whether it was the hot water soak, or maybe the two combined, I don't know, but the first thing I did (after I had thanked God and any Guardian Angel who had helped me)was to ring Bryan and tell him. Whatever he did yesterday I am sure played a big part in loosening up that which ... More About: Cure , Foot
AGIOS NIKOLOAS HOSPITAL
2007-07-07 10:44:00 I didn't expect that!About 9.30 p.m. last night George received a telephone call to say that his brother, Manolis, had had an accident in his motor and was seriously injured. It was all hands to. We scooted to Neapolis hospital where the ambulance service had said they were taking him, but after much confusion we found out that the ambulance had gone to Ag Nig. It was a silent ride there but fast, there was not much traffic so we had a clear road.Manolis and Katerina had been driving back from Lassithi (it's a bad road at the best of times, very windy)when he had driven straight over the edge. Of course he was totally inebriated at the time. About 15 meters down the van came to a stop after rolling over and over. No seat belts. Katerina was remarkably unscathed but sadly Manolis was in a very sorry state when we arrived at the hospital. He had lost a lot of blood from a neck injury, his ear was in shreds and one eye mattered with blood. After the usual scans and blood tests he was... More About: Hospital , Spit , Niko
HAPPY GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN
2007-07-06 07:20:00 STORM TROUPERS IN THE SKY - It all happened round Vrahassi yesterday! Groups of police on the ground and a helicopter search of the valley. I went to the office early because I had adverts to make for the Table Top Sale on Saturday (4 a.m.), then I had to get to the market for fresh vegies and other shopping, and I had to be back for the Greek class at two. All of that went smoothly. When I set off for Neapolis the old men were gathering on the edge of Vrahassi to watch the action. The helicopter made several sweeps and then disappeared. "George" the oracle, told me that they would be back at 10.30. Oh yeah! I thought, how come he knows everything. But sure enough dead on 10.30 the show began again. And how did he know that? "Because," he said, "the sun will be on the valley at 10.30, and that is when the happy plants look to the sky and are more visible." He was quite right. The result - the police found 550 canabis plants growing tall as trees on shepherd land between the olive gr... More About: Happy , Grass , Mountain , Mount , The Mount
ULTRASOUND ON FOOT!
More articles from this author:2007-07-04 17:19:00 I was in so much pain with my foot last night that David suggested I ring Bryan the physio man to see what he could advice. No sooner said than done. 11 a.m. this morning there he was on my doorstep with his little black bag of tricks. Apparently it is a ligament problem (which, according to Bryan, I should have had treated weeks ago), I did think as much but you think that these things will just heal and that the pain is only temporary. Anyway he advised rest (of course), better shoes with some support and some more ultrasound treatment. When he'd gone I poured a Mataxa coke and joined George at a table on the edge of the mountain where I could watch his tomatoes grow and try to rest the foot. I have to get it better before Joanne and Jack come next week, I've Nannie things to do, sandcastles to build, games to play, dinners to make. I really don't have time to sit down with my leg up! But to be a bit sensible I have come home, away from Little Legs and the bar and I shall not b... More About: Foot 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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