The sunshine is back, calm has been restored, and my forecast isn’t showing any rain for the foreseeable future, so the view is something like this:
It’s also something like this:
Or at least, it was yesterday as we moved onto the spray-painting stage. That was after the music lesson during which we took on the scale of Ab major because the next piece to study in the book has a key signature of Ab, which is four flats in case you were wondering, and looks like this:
That’s not the next piece in the book, but it looks interesting, so I might see if I have it or if I can find it. I’ve just ordered two pieces from Nakas music store in Athens, Fur Elise for my pupil, and a Mozart Fantasia for me. Having just written that, I remembered I’d had an email from them this morning and on checking it, I see my order has been sent to the courier, so I should receive that in a few days.
It’s important to consider where orders are coming from. It always has been, but now more so, because some items from the UK come with additional post-Brexit charges, and I find deliveries from Amazon France and Germany are costly on postage. However, if you head directly to a Greek outlet, you often find free delivery (over a certain amount spent), or delivery via ACS or another courier, and for a very reasonable price. You can use the post office, of course, which is also cheap for deliveries within the country. Not only is that handy to know, but it’s also much quicker to have something sent down from Athens or Thessaloniki than it is to receive it from abroad. I guess the temptation for many is to use Something.co.uk because the site will be in English, or because you’ve always used that outlet, but a quick search for similar products in Greece via Skroutz and other online places usually reveals the same items at a lower cost and without the hassle of extra delivery charges.
I have no idea where that ramble came from. Thoughts from the top of my head as usual. On which note, I have just decided to take a short walk around the village while I set the next chapter of the next book in my head. Yesterday, my copy of the slim volume of short stories, ‘1892’ arrived from Amazon Germany where the postage was the same cost as the book. It’s fun to see your husband and a friend on the cover of a book, even if it was your idea to put them there.
