Friday morning jobs done, weekend ahead
A fairly successful Friday morning has been completed. It started with an email from my old local authority in the UK saying I am now successfully registered to vote for the up-coming referendum and can apply for a postal or proxy vote. I’ve already sent back the application for a postal vote. Then I was able to get some work done and finished another chapter of ‘Shocking the Donkeys’ (first draft form of course). And while that was going on, the artist designing the image for the next novel, ‘Remotely’, sent in his latest draft which contained all the element’s we’d discussed and looks good. I’m looking forward to seeing the next stage, the colour version.
We had some rain overnight on Thursday but luckily it didn’t start until after the Tsiknopempti celebrations had ended. This was ‘meat eating Thursday’ which goes by many other interpretations. There was a barbeque in the village square with live music and recorded music, children in costumes, and free food. There might have been another similar event taking places in Yialos, but we were at home enjoying the bass line of such Greek classics as ‘Reet Petite’ and ‘La Bamba’ until just after nine.
There was some more rain on Friday morning, rather, there was a hail storm of biblical proportions but short story length. Neil had just gone out to go and buy some plant pots and had to shelter around the ex Kali Strata bar area; shame it’s not still open. Not that it was ever open in the winter months, nor did it have any shelter, but you know what I mean. And now, writing on Friday, another weekend is upon us with all chores taken care of and all writing targets met. I’m waiting to see what the weather holds in store before planning any walks or trips out and the only thing on my list of things to do is some more writing on one of the many ideas that are floating around at the moment.
And so, with that, I will wish you a happy and safe weekend as I head off into the kitchen to prepare lunch, an event which may well be followed by some more Netflix programmes, followed by another Donkey chapter. Only 11 more to go before I reach the end of draft one, and I wanted to have that ready for early June, so it looks like I am getting ahead of my schedule which is never a bad thing. Have fun!
