Thursday, 12 February 2015

Wednesday, February 11/2015

Spend ridiculous amount of time trying to order, online, glasses to replace the ones J left in Rome. We'd actually thought of ordering from Zenni before - ever since The dental tech in Regina said how pleased she'd been and I finally got my mouth freed to ask questions. Internet reviews have been (mostly) favourable and prices excellent. Have all the info - prescription, pupillary distance, etc. the site works fairly well. You get to upload a photo of your face and try the various glasses on it, having previously filtered out unwanted colours, styles and materials. Takes a while - and then find that the program won't move to the payment screen. Use the live "help" function and someone called Jade tells me that some browsers work better than Safari. Acquire a Chrome browser via a new app. Begin again. Takes a couple of tries, but eventually reach the final payment page and get a message from Paypal that they can't send the money "right now" - or later either, it seems. Aaaaaagh.

Evening meal at Gregory's, a little establishment along the Dhekelia Road. Ailsa and Harry often eat there, in part because it's a stone's throw from their house. Jane and Bill have picked us up, which is nice. It is on a pretty good bus route but it's raining - again. Gregory's is pretty basic in appearance but friendly and the food is good - even runs to chicken kiev, which J orders. Place isn't busy on a wet Wednesday evening in February but Bill says that it's crowded in the summer as people come over from the beach across the road. Probably busier on weekends as well. Afterwards we go round the corner for coffee at the house Ailsa and Harry share with 5? dogs, innumerable (but named) cats, and various birds. And Ailsa kindly runs us home.