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| On the way back from the store |
Thunderstorm in the early hours of the morning. First hear the distant rumbling and then see the lightning. Best watched from the sitting room as it’s mostly sheet lightning with the occasional strike out over the Mediterranean, though it’s too dark to actually see the sea. But the action is to the north of us and the radar shows Cyprus, as usual, on the periphery of the stormy weather with Turkey and Syria experiencing much more. And, while it’s still dark, we hear the rooster - Chanticleer trying to raise the sun.
Electrician round first thing in the morning to fix a defective switch. Unrelated, J spends much of the day fixing both adapter plugs and his voltmeter. Plugs here all UK system. Also in the South. And driving on the left hand side of the road. Well, Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960, well into the motor age. Although it was 1967 when Sweden made an overnight change from left to right hand driving. Not that it could have been done other than overnight. And Canada has its own mixed history, with some provinces left hand drive and others right until into the 1920’s. Newfoundland more than half an hour later at 1947 - though of course it wasn’t part of Canada until 1949.
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