Chugging along
The weather has warmed, cloud is due on Wednesday and Thursday. The boats continue to come in, people have been taking advantage of cheap flights at the last minute, and a couple of the taxi boats are still running to the nearer beaches. I heard the Poseidon is continuing its trips for a couple more weeks, numbers permitting. People are still donating to the appeal to help fund the music school, which will have to close if it can’t raise enough funds. The Oxi Day parades have been cancelled this year.
The cockerels continue to crow from early morning to late at night, the owl sits on the pole outside the sitting room and calls in the early hours, and the mules have been working. There are more cats at our local bins these days, the mosquitoes are back, but so far, no October spider invasion.
Messages are passed – there’s a parcel for you at the book shop, but he couldn’t get you on the phone, visitors welcomed, buildings worked on, diner invitations sent and received, walks planned, swims taken, gossip passed along and embellished. Cars drive down to meet the early morning ferry, fishing boats chug out to sea, the occasional church bell rings, and the same old sun shines in the morning. Life goes on, and the cockerels are still crowing for twenty hours a day.
