Here I go again........

Who'd have thought it, six years after leaving the sunny shores of Cyprus for the not so sunny banks of the Humber I'd be back here again?

I'm not really sure how it happened, there I was, minding my own business, looking after a 2.6 acre field, complete with pigs, goats, chickens, geese, dogs, cats, occasional sheep - oh and Beccy. Quite happy we were milking, making, growing and generally being partially self sufficient. In fact happy enough to be looking to retire from Border Force and packing in Winteringham Fields as soon as economically viable to move to a house in the middle of rural Brittany to do the "Tom and Barbara" thing (only those of a certain age will know what that means) permanently.

Then one day my phone pings - Civil Service job alerts have sent me an email saying that the Officer in Charge job in Dhekelia is available. I ring Beccy say shall I give it a go - she says yes, so an interview, much discussion about the pro's and cons, (big pro - sun always shines and it's an escape from Border Force, big con - leaving the kids, family, friends and animals etc behind) and the sun always shining pro wins out.

Much form filling, waiting, more form filling, security checks, waiting, form filling and yet more waiting follows - but now six or so months later here we are. The sun does still always shine (which is good because I'd told Beccy it did) - although we have had rain three times since we arrived. It's a Sunday morning, I'm sat in shorts, next to our pool telling you all about it. Now to be fair I have no idea how good we will be at this blogging thing. Previous attempts will indicate that we'll be erratic at best, but we will try to keep you all abreast of our life out here. We'll try not to be smug (did I mention the sun always shines?), it'll be a warts and all chronicle of the up and the downs - and indeed the often huge frustrations of living and working in Cyprus - contrary to popular belief work isn't a walk in the park here! Beccy will largely be in charge of photo's I'll provide the accompanying waffle - apparently I'm better at it.

To get us started, the picture below is the sun going down over mountains to the west of us - taken from the hill just behind our village - you'll get lots of sunset pictures I think - Beccy likes taking them!

That's enough of said waffle for now - over the next couple of days we'll give a resume as to what has happened in the month or so since we arrived - but for today I don't want to bombard you with too much stuff!

Cheers
Andy