In a word, mundane. Just back from a morning walk, gosh aren’t I good? Well, I did go to bed at 9.15 last night. Just as well as the Alarm Cat was very alarming at 5.45 this morning. He had a limp yesterday, and was standing with his near-side front paw up in the air for some of the time. Nothing too bad I think as he let me examine it, and wasn’t limping as much this morning. Just out for some kind of sympathy I expect. No sign of trauma of breakage, possibly a strain, may have tried to jump a wall, or heave himself up a step too many, more likely did it fighting. We will keep an eye on it.
Anyway, he’s in the house now and asleep on one of his sofas, having his post breakfast, pre-second breakfast nap. I’ve been out, around the back of the village, across the village and up to the top road and then up a couple of turns in said road to the place known as ‘Far enough for today.’ The bells at Ag Athanasios were ringing, there was a service going on, the sheep were bleating on the hill side, the cockerels were doing their thing, Ag Triada’s bells were going at one point, around 6.45 they struck three for no apparent reason and the sun was just coming over the top of Ano Pedi as I was heading back down through the village, and across the village to home.
Where I find Neil already up and having a shower before he goes to aerobics, which seems like the wrong way round to me but there you are. The sun is now hitting Harani, the sea is slightly ruffled by a breeze which I noticed on this, north, side of the hill, but not up there on the road, and I have a day at home planned with perhaps the excitement of a trip to the supermarket later.
There, that’s as thrilling as Symi news gets around here on a Wednesday morning. No, wait! The Blue Star is due in; it’s now 7.14 and the boat is just off the Turkish headland near Knidos, so that’s on its way. There will be excitement in town later – and maybe the new RAM chip for my computer. It took it about half an hour to go and look at the Live Ships site just then (I jest, but it is slow on certain programmes).
I ordered a new 8 RAM card which I am going to put in myself, I’ve had the tutorial and I have two experts standing by. More on this, and other Symi news before long.
