Rainbow

Monday at work started with the smell of grilling meat flooding the office from the newly reopened restaurant downstairs.  Torture for a cat.

Today we cut through the laiki on the way to work to see if F's favourite egg vendor has returned yet.

He might have said that I'm 'just like a dog', but F likes his Mum.  She doesn't speak any English but they seem to understand each other and they laugh a lot.  Mrs Egg thinks it is funny that F brings the old egg carton back to make it do another round.  She always tells the man selling beans on the next stall, that the English woman brings her egg trays back again.  (I suppose we won't be allowed to do that now for fear of some infection.)  

She hasn't returned yet, but we hope she will be back too, to 'do another round'.

We walked slowly through the laiki, the scent of fresh apricots heavy in the air.  Torture for F.

I think she is addicted to apricots.  She slowed down just so she could inhale fresh apricots a bit longer.  She has some on the bench at home already

Really heavy rain fell during the day and the dense cloud shrouded the sea.  It had stopped when we got home and briefly everything lifted except a bright white cloud between Poros and the mainland behind it.  Maybe the late sun was lighting the cloud, a bright page against which the usually invisible outline of Poros was crisp and clear - just briefly.

The weather closed in again and presented us with more heavy rain but just as the light was beginning to dim we got an enormous rainbow - our first since we lived here in Greece; a rainbow balancing on our balcony rails.

Mmmmm Roast Chicken