A true goat story.
A few years ago I was staying at my sister in laws home in a very small village up in the hills near Pissouri.
My sister in law and her husband were doing some serious arguing about money that was owed by one of their neighbours for some ploughing done the previous year -- the subject had come up as the neighbour had asked for his fields to be ploughed again even though he hadn't paid for the previous work.
Trying to be helpful I asked if the neighbour had anything of value that could be used as payment.
As the neighbour had plenty of sheep and goats I suggested that they could be used as payment which it turned out that everybody including the neighbour agreed was a good idea .
We set off in the pick up and brought back the first lot of sheep without problems -- when we went for the second lot my brother in law noticed some young goats and asked for one of them to be part of the deal.
Although she was very young little miss goat put up quite a fight and I had to hang on to her in the back of the pick up in case she jumped out.
By the time we got to my sister in laws home the goat had attached itself to me and was resting her head on my shoulder ( romantic eh
) -- we tied the goat up at the back of the house and I thought that would be the end of the story ..
Well it wasn't -- the goat kept crying and I kept going out to her and tried to comfort her.
Later that evening we went out to Paphos we returned about 1 am and the goat was still crying -- the poor thing was crying all night and like a fool I went out to talk to her and shut her up.
After a couple of sleepless nights I got a great idea -- I bought a small cheap radio and put it next to her at night -- it worked -- no more crying .
The only problems after that was the strange looks I was getting from my relatives when I went into the back of the house and the goat came running to greet me ..
Anyway it soon came time to leave and return to the UK and I took a couple of pic's of my "girlfriend " for the family album -- as she had they most beautiful eyes I've ever seen .
A few months later I received a phone call from my sister in law --
"congratulations daddy Bill you have two very beautiful babies a boy and girl " --- so it seems that my sister in law has a sense of humour after all
.
We returned to Cyprus the following year and the relatives wouldn't stop joking and teasing about my new "children".
The funny thing is that I'll swear that the goat recognised me when when she saw me again
Well that's my story -- absolutely true --- and one of the memories I will always have of holidays in Cyprus.
Bill