New Symi book and other news
A couple of photos today from a brief walk in the village on Sunday, in the sun as you can see. I also had time to start putting together some ideas for another book about life on Symi to go with ‘Symi 85600’ and ‘Carry On Up The Kali Strata‘ (currently available for a free on a special five-day deal) and also ‘Village View’, the three books I’ve compiled with writings about life on the island.
The new one is now titled, ‘Symi, Stuff and Nonsense’ and the comma is very important. I found an old diary I had started, but not kept up, when we were preparing to move here in 2002, and it also had some entries written during the first couple of weeks of our adventure. When we arrived here we were too busy finding a house and jobs, so it runs out but it has given me a good starting place for a new book of travel stories, Symi notes and, well, other stuff, some of which is nonsense (word play and observations about nothing in particular). So, for the next couple of months, that’s what I shall be working on. There are stories from travels other than to Symi or Greece, and that’s the ‘Stuff’ of the tile and there will be other smaller bits and pieces that might be mildly interesting or amusing.
While that’s going on… We have some army doctors on the island for a couple of days, apparently. We saw the navy ship come into the bay yesterday morning and a smaller boat came from it with some passengers, I assume they were the doctors. They are visiting various islands and currently it’s Symi’s turn to benefit. Luckily I don’t need them at the moment. We are also sourcing some worming tablets for the cat to try them on him to see if it stops his regular afternoon up-chuck, and we’re also asking about the next vet visit (via the pet shop) so we can see if he needs to have his ears taken off. If so, I imagine we will be heading to Rhodes for a day, with a Jack in a box (cat box) to have a minor operation. Btw, there’s a Symi Animal Welfare update coming along soon.
Other than that, the week started well, with a clear and sunny day, calm weather, cool but not bad at between 14 and 19 degrees and a new book to start working on while ‘The Saddling’ goes before the editor. I await her marking and it does feel like I am waiting for my exam results this time as I know she is going to be thorough.
