Symi spring photos
Sitting here in the heat with my mind drifting back to the spring made me think that I would put up a few more photos taken a few months ago when the flowers were out and the sheep were lambing. I’ve also been working on ‘The Saddling’, my novel for next year which is set in a very rural, closed community, and I’ve still got the characters’ voices in my head. (I still be ‘aving folk a-talking in me ‘ead.) There is a lot of rural speak involved, including words that I vaguely remember from my youth on the marshes, and plenty of others I have discovered from by book of Kent dialect. It’s a far cry from Symi, though also similar.
Symi has its own dialect and one I don’t pretend to be an expert in; why, I can’t even get my tongue around Greek, let alone anything else. It’s also similar in the use of words, in that some are ‘island words’ and then there’s the rural element, the sheep and lambs of spring and the agriculture. I am sure if I returned to the marshes now I would find some things very different, but other things still the same.
Like when people return to Symi after several years and chat, asking how things have changed over time. They can see some changes quite easily: the street lights on the road, the road itself in some cases, the widened harbour, the increase in traffic and the newly restored houses. But essentially it is still the same underneath with the hospitality, the choice of places to eat, the beaches, everything a bit laid back, the friendliness and the heat of summer. The more things change the more they remain the same and all that.
I’ve no idea where this post is going, I just opened up a new sheet of virtual paper and started taping away – a good exercise for anyone aspiring to be called a ‘writer.’ If in doubt, don’t feel blocked, just open a page and start putting down your thoughts. It keeps the fingers and the brain active if nothing else and every now and then you might put something down that you can use later.
And that’s how I got from spring to writing tips in one quick movement. Now I am going to make a slow movement towards the kitchen and get some lunch ready, and then make an even slower one towards the sofa for a cooling sit down before getting on with the rest of the day. Enjoy the Symi spring photos.
