It’s been a mixed and social weekend and it’s only Sunday as I write.
For a start, I released my next Jackson Marsh book, and it’s still not gone live on Kindle. Why? I don’t know. It usually only takes a couple of hours, but it was stuck in the system, as ‘Publishing’ for three days, so I contacted Amazon’s online chat help robot thing, and they looked into it for me. They came back with something like, Yes, it is stuck in Publishing and will be live as soon as it is live. Not helpful. Could they estimate when? No. Anything else they can help me with today…? No. Well, your boss, Jeff was here the other day, and if I’d known this would be the first of my 40 + titles to get ‘stuck in publishing’, I could have popped over to his boat and had a word. Anyway… As I say to my piano student, it’s all about the three Ps: Patience, Persistence and Practice. Without them, you get the other three Ps: Piss Poor Performance.
Moving on…
A while ago, a teacher of theology in the 3rd High School of Ilion in Athens contacted me to ask permission to use a piece of my ‘Symi Dreams’ music in his students’ video presentation. This was ‘in the context of our school program “Forgiveness Education”’, and of course, I said yes. The students have now completed their short video and it’s up on YouTube. It would be really nice if you had a look and listen (the texts are in Greek and English), and give the students a like/share etc., if you can, Here’s the link. https://youtu.be/1DNnex0llAA?si=Zsihm2Uh8anwrinL
We had a morning ‘down town’ on Saturday which included lunch at To Spitiko, and a humorous taxi ride back up with Constantinos. ‘Where to?’ ‘Japan.’ ‘Okay. Why not Botswana?’ ‘Okay.’ And so on. Harry came to run through his concert pieces in the afternoon, which he did well (in readiness for playing for his dad for the first time later today), and we had our obligatory balcony chat while watching the boats and mulling over the meaning of life. Later in the day, George, Mother and I went to Jenine’s house for a courtyard evening which involved pizza, wine, chat, laughs, and cats.
Now, we’re off into another week with the family visit continuing until Friday. George and I are off to the Taj Mahal this evening while Neil and Mother go to Georgio’s, we have another day in Yialos planned, a trip to Pedi and… Who knows?
