Rain was forecast but there wasn’t any! I bought Cyprus Today and was horrified that Jacky Wilson’s pet boxer dog was shot by a hunter. He was jumping up at a hunter, being friendly and was shot in his leg. Poor Benson may lose his front leg. Naturally Jacky Wilson is distraught. Pertev is treating Benson. “Police are investigating the incident”. Shameful.
In the evening, some of our ‘pizza gang'(also known as ‘the coven’ by one of our members!) went to the Green Valley restaurant as they have started their winter menus, with different offers on each night. Wednesday nights menu is 15tl and well worth it. We had a table by a roaring log fire and it was quite busy in there. We started with a meze and then a choice of chicken and mushroom pie or steak and kidney pie with vegetables, chips and gravy, followed by a large Turkish pudding, coffee and brandy all in the price. Excellent value. We had a really good evening.
When I arrived home Mal had discovered that both this diary and his online newspaper were both in the midst of a DDoS attack, where many computers access the website at the same time so it either slows down or stops completely. Because Mal used to teach network security, he knew what to do and when he blocked the computers he thought were in the attack, it stopped and the sites were back to normal. Cyprus 44 (forum) has also had a DdoS attack this week and was brought down for 2 days.