Rains most of the day as we head into the second of the two consecutive long weekends. Worse, the forecast for tonight and tomorrow is a yellow alert for thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail. Suspect we’re not on the more violent end of that, but who knows. Apparently hail significantly damaged potato, onion, and kohlrabi crops a little to the north of us yesterday morning. Wifi happily not disrupted and good day for reading. Also good day for curry as J turns single remaining chicken breast and some mushrooms and onions into a nice curry and I make dhal with most of the dried lentils (Canadian, as green lentils seem to be in much of the world). Substitute the remaining bulgar for rice, which we’re out of. We’ve done much better than usual at finishing the provisions and the stay at the same time.
Small bit of drama in the Brexit department as Theresa May brings her EU withdrawal agreement to parliament for the third time and it is, for the third time defeated. This time she’d upped the ante somewhat by promising to resign if it passed - a prize which did lead a couple of would be prime ministers (notably the utterly shameless Boris Johnson) to overcome their passionately expressed objections and support it, but to no avail.
And, confirmation that the wheels of justice really do turn as slowly as they seem in Cyprus, as the Cyprus Mail reports rather quaintly that “Cyprus ranks among the slowest countries in the world in terms of receiving swift justice” as “the EU average required to complete a [legal] case is eight months, [while] Cyprus needs more than 2,500 days”. Entirely typical that the Cypriot time to deliver justice is cited in days, presumably In the hope that “more than 2500 days” would sound better than “nearly eight years”. The latter would surprise no one hear waiting decades for the title deeds to their property.