The Last Post.....

...... well for a fortnight or so anyway, unless I get a chance at my mother in laws. We fly home for a couple of weeks on Wednesday. Got a family wedding next weekend, so it'll be good to catch up with everybody there, then start a round of visiting friends and family, culminating in me taking the boys away camping for a weekend, whilst Jo goes to London shopping and doing "London" things with her mates down there. All I can say is the weather back home had better improve before then !!!
Went to a Grenglish wedding this weekend - a colleague (an English Cypriot) got married, it was a strange mix of traditional Greek and English. The Greeks don't usually do speeches, but Marcos did - I really felt for his best man who had no real idea what was expected from a best mans speech. And I'd been out to a leaving do the night before, if I'm not careful I might start developing a social life. Apart from that spent most of the weekend playing in the sea with the boys, so am suitably pink to prove it, and poor Mattie burnt the soles of his feet walking barefoot on the road looking for Charlie who had snuck off, oh well it'll teach him not to wear his flip flops !!
I fully expect to come back to a garden as dry as sticks, I've started pulling out all the dead and dying stuff, leaving in the chilli's and tomatoes and gazania's which are all doing OK - the toms are flagging a bit but still producing, whilst the chillis mostly have fruit on them, but are surprisingly struggling a little bit. I'm starting research for next years plants - I think I'm going to have to have a few more succulents - the only trouble is that generally I don't like them very much!!! I went out onto the bondu yesterday and collected some seed from stuff that grow out there, some alliums, echinops, cistus and lantana - and they have all died back too so I reckon I'll have to accept July and August as the times when the garden looks poor over here and adjust things accordingly.
Here the weather is really quite strange - today it is cloudy but incredibly humid - and that is the biggest problem, the humidity has been at around 80 percent and apparently temperatures are about 5 degrees higher than normal for this time of year - the humidity makes it very difficult to do anything, just moving leaves you covered in sweat and you just can't get dry !! Not expecting much sympathy considering what is happening at home but just saying anyway!!! It's bizarre, I was looking at something about last summer which said the North East of England had no rain for over three months last year - and look at it this. Who says climate change isn't happening?
For those of you who I'll be seeing over the next couple of weeks - see you soon, and those I won't I'll be back on the 15thish.