Anoia was, in Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld stories, the goddess who received your imprecations when kitchen utensils jammed a drawer shut - the goddess of things that get stuck in drawers.
Anoia (spelled Anogeia but pronounced the same) is a nearby village in Crete.
Just thought we'd tell you that.
It rained on and off today. I buried myself in a pile of blankets on the human bed and pretended to be not here.
They went off without me. On return they advised they had been in search of a nearby bakery. After a 20km circuit through about 6 neighbouring collections of village houses, they had admired views, photographed rocks, olive trees and sheep, found a 'not today working' wind powered flour mill, had seen several community wood fired bread ovens (also not in use), no bakery anywhere and no sight of the bread van (that could easily have been driving around half a mile ahead of them).
F's food collection contains the remnants of a packet of Kythera rusk so they ate those with their cheese and olives at lunch time.
I came downstairs for lunch and had to glare at a local cousin trying to gain admission at our patio door.
Now I am helping with the photo editing.
And do you know what any of this stuff is for?
A potato ridger/plough and I can see a grape press Tigger.
ReplyDeleteWe thought it might be an olive press. The gun carriage thing is for Grushing olives (the sign said so). Thest is as JayCee names them and describes their purposes.
DeleteAll that stuff? That's easy. It's the oojamaflips for the doings.
ReplyDeleteQuite right ... and not doing much these dsys.
DeleteIt's stuff created as tourist attractions. The place names are fascinating -- either like rare diseases or animals. I'm definitely enjoying following your travels, and definitely glad I'm not there. Armchair tourist, me!
ReplyDeleteWe suspect the restored mill was intended to be that. It hasn't been maintained or used for a while and the sails are shredded. The farm machinery is just parked in or beside derelict and unoccupied homes in this village, abandoned when the families gave up the hard grind of mountain village life and moved to modern convenience in towns and cities.
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ReplyDeleteI'm hunkered under shawls and blankets, too, Tigger. The switch from decent to downright nippy was rapid and shows no signs of reversing.
I love all those old workings at the mill and around the yard - yes I would have said olive press and certainly plough parts and then the thingymybobs and whatchyamaycallits... fabulous things. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Tigger is looking forward to the fireplace being fired up at home. F can give a kiwi name to all the towable farm cultivation stuff, the press is just a guess, and the gun carriage thing would have been a 'gun carriage thing' if the sign had not helpfully explained its purpose. Back to the mainksnd tonight - weather permitting. Furrings and purrings Mr T
DeleteNow I understand why the world stopped for a bread van!
ReplyDeleteIt took me a minute to get the Anoia thing, then I had a good laugh (not heard it before).
I agree with JayCee - those items are most definitely oojamflips!! :)
We asked our host and he said his grandmother used to make bread once a week. There is an enormous bread oven by our door, and it seems from what I have seen that baking at home was the way here. Bread must have been vile by the time it was 6 days old. (No wonder they have lots of recipes that employ stale bread, and eat lots of dried out rusks). When modern arrived here, people moved to bigger towns and the villages never got bakeries - just a visiting bread van.
DeleteHow can you be in a village in Greece and not have a bakery lol
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what those things are. But I’m sure they were once very useful to some one
80 people in this village - all old. 7 died this year (there is a 40 day ceremony happening as i type this). I walked around yesterday. It difinitely is not a tourist attraction village; maybe 1 in 5 houses are permanently occupied, 1 in 3 is probably derelict beyond recovery. There are one or two super modern new places that suggest family holiday places 'in the family village' and probably only used at Easter. There is a derelict olive mill from the 1930s, evidence of a few former shops, and at least 3 closed up family tavernas - none remain open. The only two properties in stand-out tip top condition are the churches. The 'business' around here is olive oil and sheep, both probably managed by people who don't live here any more. A new road connecting them to Ieraklion (not yet on G maps which why we endured the old one) might bring a few more travellers (one walked in, yes WALKED, last night while we were dining and shooting the breeze with our host - his mother cooks great tradtional food by the way), but the only real reason to be here is we found Elena's Traditional Rooms on a booking website and decided it would as far as we could get from tourist attractions.... and it is. It's the family's way of trying to keep their old house alive, but even they now live in Ieraklion.
Deletenot sure what all that STUFF is, but I like it. again with no bread? I have noticed where you lived, travel and now in these posts, cats are everywhere, are there no dogs? or is it that you skip the pics of dogs?
ReplyDeleteLOVE that windmill
Blankets are always good, I'm forever knitting and crocheting them, Bruno likes the texture of them when he sits his bum down.
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