March on Symi
March marches on on Symi and we have more grey skies and fairly strong winds. The wind may have changed direction as it’s now noticeably colder in the house than it has been of late. We’ve had several days without having to put any heating or thermals on, but today it’s back to long-johns and the electric bar heater, much to Jack’s approval. And talking of Jack…
Old routines are falling back into place. Another walk on Wednesday morning at 6.40, only up to the second bend in the road after Periotisa; on Friday I will head up one more, and so on until I am back to regularly reaching the Kantina and getting home again within 40 minutes or so, three or maybe more times per week. Neil has now done two aerobics sessions in two days (mad fool) and has another one to attend this morning, making it three in a row.
Elsewhere in the village, the Olive Tree is now being prepared for the summer season, the Village Café has opened up again and Georgio’s has been hosting some events while staying open for the evenings. The Rainbow Bar is open in the afternoons again and, despite the cold weather, folk are out and about preparing their businesses for the months ahead. The Blue Star came in on Wednesday morning, only a little bit late, and the Frontex or navy boat is out in the bay on call and doing whatever it is that it does out there. The coastguard has also been patrolling but so far we’ve not seen any of the expected refugees boats turning up in mass numbers, as predicted by some media, due to the amount of NATO and other ships on their way to waters between Lesbos and other islands, and Turkey. No doubt things will change but the prediction is that there will be more attempted crossings from Marmaris to Greece. The nearest port of call from there would be Rhodes or Symi, so there could be busy times ahead.
Back at home, I have started on my new scriptwriting course and my first task is to write 500 words about the script of ‘Shaving Ryan’s Privates’, I mean ‘Saving Private Ryan’ (there are other options, but I happen to have this film and know it reasonably well). But only 500 words? I have no idea how I shall discuss the plot, action, dialogue and character development in only 500 words, I don’t usually get out of bed for less than 700, as regular readers will know. But I shall give it a good old go.
And as for the rest of this week, well, there’s nothing on the dance card apart from paying the Netflix subscription, the website host’s invoice and my annual Microsoft invoice which seems to have come around very quickly, oh, and that post office box rental bill I’ve had on the desk for a few weeks now, that’s due at the end of the month. Best go and find some way to see to all that before getting back to my typing exercises. I’m still not doing that well as I am only on the middle row and no matter how much I try and keep the fingers in the right place, I still use the wrong ones for the keys I’ve not yet rehearsed up. So I can write slag, glass and and, for example, without looking at my fingers and by using the correct fingers, but then when an E gets involved or a P (I usually get the symbol [ by mistake), I am still moving my hands into the wrong place and, usually, missing the right keys. Once I’ve mastered the first row though, I can start to expand. So, onwards and u[wards with the ty[ing [ractice and, without looking at my fingers, I will wiosh yout a bery food dat aheaf. (A very good day ahead.)
