Bits and Pieces
I’m starting off the new year blog with some bits and pieces drawn at random from my mind at 4.47 on Sunday morning.
First of all, this news just in: Banyak & Fecks has made it to the next round of the Cover of the Month competition on AllAuthor.com. You can vote for it via this link https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-month/10695/ I often drop cover into this competition to get my designer, Andjela, some more publicity, so any votes and shares you can manage would be appreciated. Thank you.
Then, there was New Year. We spent the evening at home and missed the dynamite and fireworks because we were asleep by 10pm, but apparently, it was, somehow, quite rowdy. We’d also turned off the doorbell as some malaka thought it funny to ring it several times during the previous night, an old and rather boring trick some local idiot gets a kick from, from time to time. (Note: if you want us to answer the gate, send a message first.)
Then, on New Year’s Day, there was the weather. Luckily, we’d been up to the family the day before to drop off Christmas presents that had come late in the post, and so we didn’t have to carry them through the rain and runoff on New Years’ Day morning. It poured down just at the time we were preparing to leave to attend the hallowed kitchen for NYD, and we had to wait for a break in the downpour. In fact, the day/year started, for me, at 6 am with a power cut and a thunderstorm, neither of which lasted for very long.
The day itself was spent at the kitchen table with the god boys and mum and progressed through sherry to delayed present-giving, games, madness and celebration until it was time to get home before the curfew. The following day was spent on the sofa wading through new films on Netflix and doing very little apart from making self-promises.
I was able to do some more writing during the holiday period, and am getting back to it today with two new stories crowding my head and desperate to get out through my fingertips, so I have plenty of work ahead of me.
Meanwhile, in the slightly wider world, our lockdown has been extended again but is nothing compared to an island-wide lockdown instigated in Kalymnos. Where our non-essential shops have had to close again after the Christmas break, over there, residents are not even allowed out to ‘click and collect’, and from what I’ve heard, to even go to the supermarkets. I need to check the facts of that, but that’s the general chatter on certain Facebook groups and news summaries. Again, Greece is being very tough on restrictions in order to keep things under control, or as much as is possible. We’re into something like day 59 of a nationwide lockdown now, with no messing about.
And so, into the first week of the new year with the weather looking improved, lots of good intentions, lots of creative ideas and plenty of things to do at home. I’ll keep you posted.
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