I took a fairly easy morning walk yesterday, just down to Pedi and back. Mind you, I did it in 35 minutes and at quite a pace, for the aerobic stuff you understand. I got a few snaps, as you will, see from today’s truly amazing photos, and it was good to see the girls again – I’d not done this walk in the morning for months.
Feeling pretty bouncy I then set about a few hours’ work while listening to the Oxi Day music and parade that was taking place in Yialos. Yesterday was Oxi Day, obviously. You can find out more from this post on the old look Symi Dream: http://symidream.com/wp/oxi-day-symi/ While you are there you may want to browse back through the old Symi photos we have as the galleries are all still there, and the blog posts and other things. It’s all on the old Symi Dream Archive.
In other news: Work on ‘Straight Swap’ continues as I sit there of an afternoon crossing through lines and paragraphs and making notes and wondering ‘Have I already said this?’ and so on. It’s nice to be able to edit from the sofa, rather than be sat at the desk; that will all come later when I start to make the changes on the document files. Meanwhile, there’s been no news of the duvet delivery that is still, apparently, delivered according to the tracking site which only seemed to track it from one side of the warehouse to the other. It’s still too soon to worry though as, at this time of year things can take weeks to arrive.
The good news about the house is that the new-new pump is working fine still, the old-new pump had a fault, it turned out after a post mortem and so we were covered by the guarantee and Vasilis hugely kindly replaced it all for us at no extra charge. If you need an electrician I know a man I can recommend. The house is cooling down, I am wearing slippers and a sweatshirt for the first time in months, the cool air breezes in under and around my office window but I am loathed to close the shutters; I may look for draft excluder and talking of that, Yiannis now only has bottles of beer in the Rainbow bar so he’s another kind of draught excluder to I suppose. Not that I drink beer, not at this time of year.
Neil is still working though and sunny afternoons have brought some locals out during his shift so it’s still profitable for the boss to keep him on. The Blue Star came in on Wednesday morning taking people off to Rhodes for the day and at least one day trip boat came in too, as did the Express (or Pride) so Wednesday is still a fairly busy shipping day on Symi. And that’s about my news for today. Maybe something more interesting will happen tomorrow.
