Dentist first. I suspect a broken filling, but it's a break in the tooth, fixed by Xenia, our dentist. One advantage to female dentists is smaller hands filling your mouth.
Surprisingly, we do get a tv working on all channels. The man we take to be the manager's brother comes, along with the cleaner, to investigate our defective arrangement. An interesting choice of personnel, as neither speaks any English. The first attempted solution is a switch of sets with another flat. Not so good for the next tenants there if we're trading bad for good. Tomorrow, the brother says, of the exchange. But tomorrow may never come, and we realise that the reason for the postponement is the brother's inability to lift things - when we were collecting our stored belongings he raised his shirt to reveal more scarred anatomy than we needed to see, by way of apology for non assistance. So J effects the transfer. Still no luck. But then the digital boxes are exchanged and that does it - perfect reception.
We book a three day holiday (well, we've always said that the winters aren't our holiday - they're the other half of our life). We're joining Jane and Bill in a Christmas trip to Kyrenia in North Cyprus, breakfasts and Christmas dinner included. Nice to have company again after all those years when we got together with Maggi and Magne for Christmas dinner.
Surprisingly, we do get a tv working on all channels. The man we take to be the manager's brother comes, along with the cleaner, to investigate our defective arrangement. An interesting choice of personnel, as neither speaks any English. The first attempted solution is a switch of sets with another flat. Not so good for the next tenants there if we're trading bad for good. Tomorrow, the brother says, of the exchange. But tomorrow may never come, and we realise that the reason for the postponement is the brother's inability to lift things - when we were collecting our stored belongings he raised his shirt to reveal more scarred anatomy than we needed to see, by way of apology for non assistance. So J effects the transfer. Still no luck. But then the digital boxes are exchanged and that does it - perfect reception.
We book a three day holiday (well, we've always said that the winters aren't our holiday - they're the other half of our life). We're joining Jane and Bill in a Christmas trip to Kyrenia in North Cyprus, breakfasts and Christmas dinner included. Nice to have company again after all those years when we got together with Maggi and Magne for Christmas dinner.