August 2003 saw our return to Parga for another two weeks in Paradise!  One night or should I really say ... early one morning, I created the following recipe ..

 

1.Drink copious amounts of wine and beer with your wife.

2.Return to one's apartment, gently swaying ....

3.My better half notices a lizard the size of a postage stamp happily

   minding his own business on the ceiling above our bed ...

4.I cannot go to sleep with him there .... says the wife

5.Stood on a chair, still swaying gently and wearing only my boxers, I attempt to remove the little chap with the aid of a small saucepan in my left hand and a deadly spatula in my right ....

6.Our little lodger was probably highly amused to observe I still could not reach him, being a good foot away from the ceiling ....

7.Try not to hurt him !! Barbara pleads, and plan 2 goes into action ..

8.After a further 15 minutes of me gently hurling my pillow up at our friend, he got bored and scuttled over to an adjoining wall ...

9.Triumphantly I managed to gently flick him with the aid of my trusty spatula onto the floor ... where upon he scuttled under our front door after discarding his tail !!!

 

The end of the story ??? not at all .... he might come back in, observes Barbara !!! ..... so .....

10. At around 2.15am, any locals still awake would have been greeted with the dubious sight of yours truely cavorting with minimal attire outside the apartment still wielding my trusty spatula and saucepan for all to see !!  Mad Dogs and Englishmen ???

 

Postscript ...Our little friend lived to have fun another day as I gently flicked him onto the verandah blinds below !!!!