Just an average day in a Corfu hill village

... The sun is shining.

The children are off school today, and again on Monday, because of local elections. (They were also off school on Wednesday for the same reason - amazing how lengthy the local election process is here).

My daughter is playing dolls with her best pal... Yergos... Yergos does an uncanny impression of 2 cats fighting and prefers to stand at the front door shouting "ding dong" rather than actually pressing the door bell.

I asked my son to do the washing up this morning as he had nothing to do barring Kevin impersonations... Instead he decided to 'clear' the kitchen table and 'do' the floor (his words not mine).  I have no idea what his interpretation of clear and do are, but it took under 3 minutes and there is no discernible difference to either. The washing up was left for me to do.  He has now disappeared off the face of the earth, having muttered something about wanting a lift into Acharavi.

I've taken 4 phone calls from a friend who's in Athens at the moment with his elderly mother who is unwell.  I've now booked their flights back to Corfu later today, at roughly the cost of a small (slightly used) car. No, I haven't gone into the travel business, but I have internet and credit card access to hand (something of a novelty here it seems).

A five car shuffle took place at a bottle neck in the village about half an hour ago.  It was like watching one of those puzzles with one more space than squares where you have to jiggle the pieces around until they make a picture. I'll swear the houses were holding themselves in!

There is a young Albanian lad currently standing outside the front door shouting "Tzak". Another one who's not au fait with pressing the red button.  This is the 11th time today that he's done this, but it makes no difference... I still don't know where Tzak, or Jack, is... 


The Jehovah's Witnesses have just been to the door, twice.  Niamh hid under the table. They worked out how to use the door bell first time.


Yergos is now doing parrot impersonations too... Or maybe the parrots are doing Yergos impersonations, difficult to tell sometimes.  Still, they can do door bell impersonations perfectly... It's just a shame they can't answer it too.