Time to come clean. It’s Louise’s birthday
Captain chaos strikes again !
It is Friday 13th !!
1 . A Bouquet of flowers (Lilies) are secreted into the garden hut late last night in advance of Mrs M’s birthday.
For some reason I then started to read about Lilies:
– extremely toxic to cats !
– death in 48 hours if they come in contact with even the minutest part of the plant, water or pollen!
Google it if you don’t believe me.
2. A bottle of rose wine scoffed the night before – intended for the birthday breakfast also now gone !
Thinking, I’ll donate them (the lilies) randomly to somebody, but I further discover from my “research” – lilies are normally associated with funerals, FFS !
In the morning, says I to Mrs M:
“Look out the kitchen window”
“If you look next to the hut you will see the flowers intended for you”.
BUT ……..
“You can’t have them.” LOL
” Will be gone for a bit” I say
Off down to Vathi (Samos town) just intending to return the flowers rather than throwing them in the bin.
I’m not looking for a replacement, but the florist decides he is going to do something for me & no arguments please.
He is an absolute gentleman, and he is called Hercules.
Hercules making up a replacement bouquet
So now I am going back up the road with a replacement bunch of flowers to tell Louise they are from a Greek called Hercules.
You couldn’t make it up.
Anyway a nice lunch, body shop guff, even pink fizz and everything fine for the rest of the day ……..………………. so far.
Birthday breakfast with replacement flowers and fizzy pink stuff.
Captain Chaos himself!
Lunch at Chickens Taverna, Samos Town in glorious weather
Addendum
The wonderful Hercules got a bottle of Psilés Korfés, by way of thanks.
Ψηλές Κορφές is a well‑known dry white from Samos made from Muscat of Samos. It’s one of the island’s signature aromatic whites.
