Author: Maggie Daniel

It had been raining during the night and we woke up to a lovely rainbow. Mal finished off the winter lounge and we were both very pleased to get the furniture back in as it had taken so long.

Our lack of internet problem had still not been resolved. The progress through the day can be followed on: http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com/2009/11/12/are-extend-broadband-rubbish-%E2%80%93-day-1/

Paul was so helpful and in future we will be paying our money to him and contacting him if things go wrong. At least he will know that we have paid, which is more than can be said for those in the frontline at Extend. I would recommend any other people with Extend to also go through Paul. The second part of the saga can be seen:

Is eXtend Broadband rubbish? – Day 2

So, Mal finished the two coats of painting on all the walls in the winter lounge BUT another wall had started peeling. He has more patience than I have and proceeded stripping the two layers of paint off the second wall, ready for sealing in the morning. In the evening we watched two more episodes of the ITV drama ‘Collision’. We watched it via Mal’s proxy server.

I am totally fed up with having no energy following whatever bug I have had but it is getting better and far more people are a lot worse. My brother in law is at last out of hospital following his major op and has a long road to full recovery. We wish you a speedy recovery Bryan.

Mal took Rosie out for a walk and then discovered we had no internet.

I think the best way to explain the trials of our wasted day can be seen here:

http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com/2009/11/12/are-extend-broadband-rubbish-%E2%80%93-day-1/.

I was still not feeling well and the last thing I wanted to do was drive to Girne and then back again to the shops to buy more credit for our phones. Needless to say, nothing else was done, no painting.

Another day with Mal trying to sort the walls out. It was a really sunny day a shame he was indoors. My neck was really hurting so did very little. In between painting and sealing he did make a start on the jungle of our front garden.

Mal and I took Rosie out for her morning walk. It was a long way and made me realise I had not fully recovered from the flu and spent the rest of the day exhausted. Mal decided as rain was forecast (no we didn’t have any), that he would start painting the winter lounge. We now buy the dye and mix our own colours as the shop mixes never seem to turn out the colour we want. It is now obvious that our builders messed up with the plaster on one of the walls as the original paint started peeling off on to the roller. What a mess. When it dried Mal decided the only course of action was to scrape it all off, seal the wall and start again.

The hunters woke us up at 6 in the morning, wonderful as we went to bed at 1.30 after watching the fight. Whoever it was with the gun was far too close to property and so we decided to take Rosie to the beach. It is the first time I have walked Rosie since returning from Turkey and how I needed that walk. I was going very stale indoors all the time and no exercise, not even swimming. It was lovely and of course Rosie loved the sea. We found lots of sea daffodils all along the beach.

During the morning the hunters came far too close and the Police had to be called. They should be more than 500 metres away from property.

Mal started digging at the front of our land in preparation for putting fruit trees in. Later we watched the Man U – Chelsea game. Chelsea won 1-0. No comment. We rang the boys in the eveing and Rivers football team won 13-1.

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I still ached and was coughing but even so, it was my first big outing! First stop the pharmacy to get some more ‘day nurse’ and then on to Lambousa. It seemed everyone we spoke to either had or still has ‘the bug’. It’s spreading like wildfire.

We then went on to buy more membrane for the gardens and on to the supermarket, Ileli. Potatoes at the moment have been pretty ropey, soft and 2.5tl for a kilo…UK prices! Ileli had some nice small potatoes and they were cheaper. They packed all our bags for us and took all the shopping out to the car. They really are such nice staff in there.

By the time we had done all this I was exhausted. Mal did more of the garden and then we watched the Man City game followed by Arsenal.

Much later in the evening Mal managed to get Sky box office on the internet and ran it through the TV for David Haye’s fight.  A relief that David threw some punches in the last round to secure his title as WBA Heavyweight Champion of the world. Well done David.