First Symi rain for a while
Now that feels much more like winter. Monday: started with some sun and low clouds that soon built up and, by 12.00, it was raining, slightly. No downpour as yet and, as I write, not enough to make any difference to the water levels in the reservoirs I expect, but there’s hope that we’ll get a lot more rain later – both Symi and Rhodes are suffering from lack of rain water at the moment and the farmers are worried about crops.
But yesterday it certainly felt as if winter had finally arrived and the season was definitely over. No day boats, no taxis, very few sailing boats in and a chill breeze, plus the rain. Lights on during the day and the windows finally closed. Next it will be the shutters, when the wind starts, and later I must put up the thermal curtains across the mousandra to help keep the heat in the sitting room. I hope my patch repair on the bathroom roof worked so the rain doesn’t seep in there again. If I am very lucky then it will rain harder later today and I will be forced to spend the afternoon on the sofa watching Time Team instead of going out for the walk I had told myself I was going to do. Yesterday was all about getting back to the Ws. Work, Water (fill the sterna), Walking, Washing and Weight, but…
My lovely neighbour called around with a ‘meals on wheels’ for me, a large slice of meat and potato pie with gravy; whoops, there goes the diet I wasn’t on!
Mind you, the rain didn’t deter a trio of canoeists who I saw heading out around the headland alongside a catamaran yesterday. I don’t have the benefit of Neil’s long lens as he has it with him on his trip to Scotland, but I zoomed in as much as I could on my rather appropriate underwater camera to get a shot. The sea was calm enough so I am sure these intrepid explorers were safe enough.
Right then, back to the Ws, the Work and the Washing, the Water (rain) and the Watching of TV or Wreading of a book… Kalo mina!
