Heading for silence
Well, maybe not total silence but we’re definitely heading for a quieter time. There were few visitors around in the village square yesterday afternoon, and a few still here with only a couple more days to go of their expended summer holidays. There are fewer boats in the harbour, at least at the end of it that we can see from our balcony, and although we’ve not had bad weather yet, it is expected soon. Mind you, it was also expected a while back and never really materialised.
I am looking at one forecast (Windfinder), and it’s showing rain right about now (Tuesday morning). Looking out, I can see the sky is a little cloudy, but it doesn’t look like rain. I’ve just come back from my three-mile walk up to the monastery and back, and everything was calm if overcast. The forecast is only showing a few mm of rain anyway, and it’s still warm, in the early to mid-twenties, with very little wind. Wednesday looks calm, maybe damp, but Thursday is showing high winds up to 7Bf and from the north-west, so the temperature is going to drop. Meanwhile: Viking, rising easterly, moderate, 3 – Forties, easterly, holding, good – Forth, Tyne, West Dogger: Westerly or northwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Slight or moderate. Fair. Good…
That was the (yUK) shipping forecast which, incidentally, used to be read by someone I worked with, an actress who appeared on The Archers as a character from south London. She was a right old ‘dogger’ (no offence, Celia). When not putting on her ‘saff-Lundun’ accent, she read the forecast with clarity and was a very well-spoken and charming young lady and an excellent actress. But that’s an aside. I had a look to see if we had similar shipping areas around Symi and what I found was a little worrying. Symi, on the map I saw, came under area 8 of Turkey, whereas Rhodes was area 22 of Greece. The only other Greek island that came under the Turkish shipping-weather map was half of Lesvos, but I like to think we are safely in GRC22, from Karpathos to Rhodes, although we’re just beyond it.
Anyway, that was all apropos nothing but filling white space. I’m just back from my walk, going to have breakfast and then get on with a book or something.
