A few things happening around here at the moment: A few more refugees have arrived and are being helped by the port police, the police and Solidarity Symi. A 12 year old girl sent in a large basket of teddy bears for the refugee children, so sweet. Neil also leaped on the port police on Sunday night as we were coming back from a party at Villa Sophia (where Rick Stein made his programme about Venice, or something). Neil didn’t actually leap on the poor unsuspecting guys and girl in uniform, but he did rather take them by surprise…
They were having coffee at Elpida’s before heading out on a patrol, happily minding their own business when this English chappie (Neil) saw them and went dashing in. He basically gave them a verbal handshake and told them how much we all appreciated their work and what they were doing. They were rather surprised but understood the message and he left them glowing slightly with a good feeling. Bravo that man, and those men, and that lady, and thank you to Hillary and Co. for the invite and the party.
Meanwhile, our village/island doctor has retired or is retiring and will be off to Rhodes to spend his retirement with his family. I’m not sure who his replacement is, but there were other doctors around recently and I assume we won’t be without one for any great length of time, if at all. Neil’s off to the surgery today for something so we’ll know more later on.
Other news? Not much, few clouds but not due another storm until next Tuesday though, the day I am thinking of heading to Rhodes to collect my nephew who arrives on Wednesday. Always better to be there ahead of time in case the weather changes. It depends, as it always does, on what forecast you use. One that I look at tells me that Friday is going to be ‘beautiful’ but Saturday will be both sunny and beautiful, though next Tuesday will be merely ‘pleasant.’ October 7th, on the other hand, is building itself up to have ‘Abundant sunshine’ (I can’t wait for that as, if you change the word ‘abundant’ to another from the thesaurus, we could be in for rich, profuse or, my favourite, lavish sunshine – fab) while on November 5th will have ‘A thunderstorm in spots.’ I assume that either means some kind of polka dot event in the heavens or very, very small thunderstorms in specific puddles dotted here and there. Who knows?
Anyway, there’s no other news from this desk this morning, so I’ll let you go and get on with something more interesting and wish you a merry Tuesday.
