The E MESS – "Your Makrigialos Fix"
Quote from Matt "it’s a state of mind"
ISSUE NUMBER NINE– WEEK COMMENCING
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Today's
news… Good company in Hani at lunchtime -Sue,Michele ,Andrew,Ann,Daniela
and Andonis a pleasant lunch in very windy conditions
- hey look lots of smoke in the sky behind Lucky Lukes
…. Andonis "Its nothing just a few leaves
burning" a few moments later the church bells start ringing - Andonis was out of his chair and off on the papaki - the Church bells ringing in this manner mean -
All hands to the helm - so about 100 people went up to help to put out the
fire. When the fire brigade arrived 50 of the 100 who were watching left and
the other 50 stayed to help - this was the time everyone was needed!! TRAVEL
TIPS if you are flying anywhere always know the airport code
of your destination and when the checkin person
whacks the sticker on your bag make sure it’s the correct one. ARRIVALS Yes
Jason's back. Whilst lunch was being taken in Hani
rumour has it that Sara with an H was slung into the Villea Pool - she did
not want to go in and apparently the perpetrators left the pool soon after -
so said Nikolaki Mou. QUOTE
OF THE WEEK Sue asked Mikle what he
thought about the restaurant prices in Makrigialos - well replied Mikle they are about the same as a Chinese takeaway in NAME
DAYS As you may all know in Greece Name Days [Saints Days]
are celebrated as opposed to birthdays. Saturday was St Pauls day as in Apostolis
of Porfira Fame. Usually on your name day you buy everyone
a cake - not so Apostolis who kindly bought all
present at Fisherman Jacks Pool Bar a cold beer - thanks and Kronia Polla [ literally translated meaning many years
- used for birthdays and name days]. With
thanks to Ann and Michele for their contributions. Wow we
got a page and a bit this week - just read Anns
contribution re the house and it has to be said that during the "fire
panic" she was very worried lest the orange strings around the concrete
on the house base were burned. As
Judith Chalmers[?] said - wish you were here. |
BIG
MAC INDEX none CRETA
WAGGED HER TAIL Margaret
knew that Creta had been in Apotheke
as she had seen the hairs on the floor - you cannot do anything here without
the whole Village knowing. Ron
and Margaret's Wedding -.Ron had his family here and did "
Grandad" brilliantly. THE
WORRIT WATKINS OPINION -A GENUINE LONGE SERVING MAKRIADICT. This is
the 2nd time I have been to Makrigialos this year. So that may
tell you all that I am either an addict to the place or a very sad individual.
Andrew [our son] and I arrived at Heraklion on
Thursday night to find that Greek beaurocracy was
at it's best and all 237 passengers were herded like
sheep into the passport area and each passport had to be stamped! And then I
though "Oh God, I'm back in LITTLE
PEOPLE Those of you who have visited The Irish Bar will
possibly have noticed a small door by the "facilities" well
apparently some children asked what was behind the door - they were told it
was the home of the "Little People" and were thus encouraged to
write notes and push them under the door. They got replies - God Bless you
Michael you surely kissed the Blarney Stone and it’s the best piece of
marketing I have heard of recently. Subsequently all the parents got dragged
back to Michaels bar to pick up more replies. |
FISH
Happily we still have four fish left. One of them is very white however
thanks to a South African visitor I know the reason why. Its
in the food and its something to do with why the FISHERMAN
JACKS Well most of the signs are up but the stenciling
has yet to be done - however Nikolaki Mous cocktails happy hours are proving popular so things
are on the move. GREEK
IN 35 YEARS AND HOUSEKEEPING HINTS this has been merged for
obvious reasons - first of all we have the word dust which is Skoni as in ekei skoni meaning we have dust please note that dust is a
noun - anyone stating that dust is a verb as in SkenonizoI
I dust will fail the course!!!! And if
you say "Sue dusts", then you must be from another planet!! Progress
on Ann and Marks House: Over the last two weeks the only progress has
been that 2 lines of orange string have been stretched along on side of the
foundations supposedly to mark out where a wall will be. This work of art has
been attributed to Aneste, master stonemason and
permanently lipi person, although it could easily
have been achieved by a 6 year old who has lost the string from his yo yo. There is now a
sweepstake on the chances of Mark and Ann oving in
this year. Ann has started off the betting by predicting that she will be
drawing her pension before she becomes a woman of 'Greek' property. Mark is
being kept in the dark in order to minimise the nagging Ann receives. Telephone
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