Saturday
Had to pop into town on Saturday to pick up a new PC keyboard. I seem to go through one every six months and haven’t yet found the perfect one. The Microsoft one was flat, and I eventually got used to it, but then the keys’ stuck’ and all I was getting on the page was a long line of one letter or spaces. The big old Logitech giant was more heavy-duty with clunky and large keys that got stuck on their mechanism on the way down so not every letter was typed. Now I have a smaller Logitech, and the keys feel smooth and are slightly raised, but it’s a smaller keyboard, so my fingers are fighting over each other, and things aren’t quite in the same place. I play the keyboard like I would play a piano, which doesn’t help (I’ve never learnt to type properly), so my right hand is all over it while my left tends to stay still and only plays the from Tab to R, Ctrl to V. Which all an excuse for any typos you may find.
But hey! At least we were able to have lunch out for the first time in ages and for only about the fifth time this year. Friday lunch ‘down town’ used to be a regular thing, but this year has been different, for various reasons, mainly financial, so we made the most of it at Meraklis before treating ourselves to a taxi back up.
There’s work going on in the harbour, and I mean in the harbour. Concrete slabs are being dropped, planted, placed, sunk, whatever beneath the water for a reason I can only guess at, and this involves floating them out under balloons and then deflating the balloons, so the slabs sink, and a diver goes down with them to… Well, most of that is guesswork. I’ve been told they’re concrete slabs, I only saw the balloons, and I can only assume it’s something to do with making anchoring easier? Whatever the reason, I’m sure it’s for a useful purpose.
Now then, I am one chapter away from finishing a rough first draft, so I’m going to get on with that as I have all day, and one without interruptions apart from godson #1 coming to do the cleaning as that’s his Sunday job and maybe popping out to buy a bottle of milk.
