Late breakfast on the patio in the sun. Looks to be sunny for a couple of days anyway, if BBC weather can be relied on. Oddly, more than one radar map has been showing Cyprus with a large blob of rain seemingly permanently attached to its backside. More or less connected to Paphos on the southwest coast. Have never thought of Paphos as being particularly rainy - and we have stayed there - and indeed rain is not in their immediate forecast now. But there is the radar blob.
If it were to rain here it would be down to me as I murdered three pretty innocuous looking spiders discovered in the most fragile of webs in a corner. No easy way to remove them without resorting to arachnicide. But so far the sun continues.
Down to Blue Song in the afternoon. Spot a murder of crows in the top branches of a tall tree on the way. Too far away to identify by more than body language, but they will be hooded crows - associated in Celtic myth with death on the battlefield and also known as the bearers of messages.
We’re not the only ones at the Blue Song to choose to sit at an outside table. It’s lovely and J points out that now we’re at sea level and a little farther from the mountains it’s possible to see the sun for a bit longer. Do notice that most of the other “outdoors” people are smokers. One man suits up to leave by bicycle. I tell J that I wouldn’t be keen on biking here because it’s so hilly. He says it’s also hazardous as drivers not noted for due care and attention. The cyclist seems to be of the same mind and has both a substantial hi vis vest and a flashing rear light on his bike.
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