I took Rosie out and then realised I didn’t have any of her pain killers left. I was at the vets (the Prof) at 9.00 am when she was supposed to open. She was shut and so I went to get some shopping and Cyprus Today see link. I was very sad to hear that Rauf Denktaş is in hospital. He seems the one person here who cares about his country and the expats here. We wish him well.
The shopping, what a difference in prices to the UK for fruit and veg. Potatoes 80 kurus a kilo, cucumber 60 kurus a kilo, aubergines 80 kurus a kilo, tomatoes 1 lira a kilo etc AND they actually taste of something here! I did notice the red wine Mal likes has risen from 6.90 to 10.90. Shopping done and I returned to the vets, still shut! I guess it may have been her day for teaching at the University.
I then went to Garfield vets. I asked if he had Rimadyl, the answer “yok”. Anyway, I explained about the Prof being shut and he asked me to come back in half an hour at which point he locked up and went off in his car. Half an hour later I returned and he had the tablets for me. Nice man.
Back home and I cleaned the pool for a second time. It is so full of that awful brown dust. I started on the gardening which obviously is way behind.I was so hot after all that I had a swim and gave Rosie a shower. The pool is a very nice 26 and a half degrees. The temperature outside a pleasant mid 30’s.
I took Rosie for her walk in the evening and when we arrived back home she had her nose down sniffing something and then started barking by some flower pots. By now it was dark and so I told her to ‘leave’ and went indoors to get a torch, of course thinking it was a snake. Back outside and discovered it was a baby hedgehog. I decided to leave it where it was as it would find its own way home. Half an hour later it had gone.
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Thought for the day – “The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ” ~ Leo Buscaglia