International Buy a Book Day
Hello, and may I wish you a happy International Buy a Book Day? Obviously, as I’ve written four books about Symi, I’d suggest buying one of them to celebrate, but I think most of my readers have already read them. I’ve been doing a lot of research of late which means a lot of reading of new books, so for me, I think today is more about not buying a book day (though I probably will), and instead, I’ll get on with writing one. After I’ve told you what we’ve been up to over the weekend…
Well, let’s see… It started on Friday with a trip to town where I went looking for a surprise for someone’s birthday and wedding anniversary tomorrow, and, that done, we treated ourselves to a taxi over to Pedi where we were being taken to lunch. This was at Apostolis, right by the sea and very pleasant it is too. I can’t remember the last time I had a lunch that didn’t involve eating salad and chicken while watching MasterChef on TV, and although Neil had to go to work for 3pm, Anne and I stayed until the 4.30 bus. Masks, handsan, caution but still only €1.70 and beats walking up after a four-hour lunch.
Completely unrelated, but that night, one of Neil’s crowns fell out leaving him toothless. What do you do? Send your dentist a photo, put the crown in an envelope, and pop down the next morning and have it fixed by 10.30. That’s Symi living for you. Meanwhile, Godson #1 came to do the cleaning and earn his coffee money, I finished off reading the last draft of ‘One of a Pair’ and wrote a blog post about what I am currently working on (click here). Later, it was salad and chicken in front of MasterChef (Aus), and then back to work. The day was cooler thanks to a mighty wind which had blown half the courtyard into the house, and down at the bar, threw as something of a gathering of regular visitors at distances and the usual malarkey.
It’s Sunday morning as I’m writing so I can’t tell you what happened today as it’s not happened yet, but I can remind you it’s International Buy a Book Day, and here’s a link to my two author profiles on Amazon just in case you’re hankering for some reading. Me… The other me.
