As you can see from the picture below, the clouds are heading this way. There has been talk of storms in recent days and we are expecting bad weather on Symi and elsewhere in the very near future. We shall see…
Meanwhile, the Alarm Cat has been in a noisy mood since before dawn. I had my earplugs in but could still hear him out in the courtyard. And it’s not because he has nowhere to go, we leave the other kitchen window open for him so if it rains he has his own kitchens and bathroom to play in, and his dirt tray will be inside there when the weather turns, there’s water and places to sleep. He was just in a cantankerous mood I think. He’s been whingeing at me all day, sitting there staring up and me and telling me he is bored. It’s bloomin’ noisy.
But it did get me up and out before seven for a walk up the hills. The alarm clock was going off at the same time as the cat, but in the other room and I’d turned the volume down so couldn’t hear it – bit pointless setting it really. The walk was good, I managed the museum steps and up without stopping which isn’t bad as it’s the first time out in over three weeks. I then took it easy but at a decent pace up the road a way. The sun was up, behind the hills, and finally appeared around seven-thirty by which time I was heading back down, my new trainers rubbing on one heel where the ‘trainer sock’ had slipped down. Not sure about these ‘trainer socks’, I mean, I know how to wear socks, I don’t need training, they are really small and sometimes don’t fit over the heel, as in the case this morning.
Anyway, back to the blog. A good response from a few people about the idea of posting your own blog posts next month and into early December. A few people have said they will do it and I hope they all follow up on that as I think it will be good to see. I was asked when the deadline for submissions was and I’m saying November 22nd as that’s the Sunday before I go away and I can spend the day getting the posts ready. If I don’t get any then I will have to put up posts about my own books again and do some advertising; so you have been warned.
And on that note, remember that Neil’s 2016 Symi calendar is on sale ONLY from Lulu.com at this link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/neil-gosling/symi-dream-calendar-2016/calendar/product-22165801.html and Christmas is fast approaching and the calendars can take a week or more to arrive. So, best get your skates on and plan ahead. And if you like Neil’s photography (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) you might like to follow his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NeilGoslingPhotography I’ll let you go and have a look, a like and a comment on that and get back to this noisy cat – who is still there staring at me like something from a Poe poem.
