Ants
Ants are the latest thing. In fact, they are very nearly flavour of the month, except we check everything before we cook with it or put it on a plate. I’m sitting at my desk in the office nowhere near the kitchen, and there are a couple of them running across the rim of my glasses, more investigating the desktop, a couple about to get squashed on the keyboard, and I came in here to get away from the ones crawling all over me in the sitting room. These are tiny things, by the way, not the standard size edition, and although they’re useful for eventually getting rid of dead cockroaches, they are annoying when clambering all over you and your kitchen. Anyway… I just thought I’d mention that as it was the first thing on my mind this morning. That and mosquitoes, but lets’ not start that one. Let’s have a gratuitous photo of Symi instead.
So, apart from becoming an adventure playground for ants, what else have I been up to? Not a lot. A few evenings in the square where there’s a mix of distancing and not. The weekend saw the August 15th Panagia, and I know there were events planned, though I don’t know how they went off. Joyous and safe, I hope. I did a quick wander around some hills, Neil walked the length of the island as the crow flies by walking to Pedi and then to Nimborio and then back via the roads, no shortcuts, and stopped for a swim somewhere en route too. I happened to be on the balcony wondering about nothing when I saw him march past the clock tower heading home. It took 40 minutes from there to here around the harbour and up the main road; not bad going.
And talking of going, I am. An idea for a new story is presenting itself, and I want to get on with that. I can’t promise there will be any interesting news here this week, there rarely is these days as I don’t go out much. There’s far too much to watch at home, like this military parade of ants now assembling on the laptop screen…
