Something odd has been going on with the Symi Dream Facebook page. Recently, I’ve not been able to share the blog to the page by using the ‘share’ button at the bottom of each post. That’s the easiest way for me to do things but FB won’t have it. I’m not bothered. I can’t write posts via the feed (still not bothered) but instead, have to log in, switch to the SD page/wall itself, copy and paste the link and do it that way, which takes a little extra time. Bothered? Not me. Any messages to FB about the page’s wall go unanswered by FB who are clearly not bothered either, and now the wall is filled with ‘Pages you might like’ or some claptrap, which I usually X my way out of. American boxers, sports pages, cookery things, Thai wrestlers (vaguely interested), anything and everything non-Greek and non-Symi. So, that’s something to be dealt with one day because right now, I couldn’t be…
Another odd this is that they flagged up yesterday’s share as a violation, which made me laugh. All the post said was this:
Facebook’s behaviour is not the only odd thing I’ve seen of late. I took a walk to Yialos yesterday afternoon, where I saw my accountant driving a forklift truck. That was pretty odd. Last Saturday, Jenine arrived for dinner bearing the gift of an advent calendar. It was from Sotiris at the supermarket to say thank you for having her and the boys over for tea. Other odd things seen in the past include people carrying sheep or goats on their mopeds, which seems perfectly reasonable to me. On the other end of the scale, our internet connection speed is now 160 Mbs when we only pay for 100, but who’s complaining?
I certainly wasn’t complaining on my walk yesterday. I went down the zigzag path to the west of our house, and came back up the road, noticing how the new water treatment plant works are coming along at ‘Council Corner.’ I bumped into several people and stopped for a few chats before reaching home to discover the number of steps on that walk was the same as the number of steps it takes me to walk up through the village, up the main road, past the quarry and to the next corner and back. Roughly 6,000, if you’re interested. The quarry walk is harder work because of the gradients involved. The walk up the main road from Yialos involves a gradual gradient and there are no steps.
Anyway, I’ve got a few nice pictures of the sea and the route from yesterday, so you will be seeing those over the next few days no doubt.
