'Facilities' at the Villa

As I have mentioned before, we are living in a 'country chic villa' (air B&B description not mine) where there is no bath plug and no shower holder making baths impossible and showers a bit uncomfortable.  By far outweighing these little inconveniences are the fact that we have a wonderful view through our wild garden, cypresses and olives down to the sea with the hills of mainland Greece and Albania over the water and snow capped peaks in the far distance. To be honest, a view does not get much better than that, although we have had to wait almost a week for the Sahara dust to leave us to be able to appreciate it.  Added to all this we have the cheerful chatter of a flock of sparrow in the bushes by the terrace.

Back to the bath with no plug.  Julian likes his baths and we thought it would be an excellent plan to buy a plug at a local hardware shop, allowing us to have baths and improving the facilities at the villa.  We duely bought the plug and enjoyed our bath.  Only one bath, of course, and me going in first, of course. After I had enjoyed a good soak Julian went in there and fell asleep, snoring rather loudly which put me off the book that I was listening too in bed.

The next thing that happened was Julian, unclothed!, outside the bathroom with mop swishing around and lots of squeezing out mop in bucket, and emptying bucket outside (he couldn't exactly pour it down the sink could he!). Possibly a little too much information for my readers (or reader), but the fact was that Julian, having pulled the plug from the bath and flushed the loo had overloaded the system and was faced with water coming over the top of the loo and also out of cracks in the tiles at the base of the bath. Coming out faster than he could mop it all up. (We now knew why no plug in bath). I will spare you a photo.  I'm sure that Mrs Durrell would have taken the whole thing in her stride.  Mrs Edwards, pretended to be asleep!

Poor Mr Edwards, he is very good with mop and bucket and is an equally talented photographer always managing to capture the best of me.