It’s the end of the week and here are some Saturday Symi photos for you; again, these are from last weekend and our long walk and the Panormitis Festival. After this we shall move on to other things for next week, though there are still many images to share. There are a few posts about Panormitis coming in the future in the guest post slots while we are away, so watch out for them. We’re away to a baptism today and then I may go on a walk on Sunday so there could be a deluge of photos over the next week.
Other news? Well, there’s a meeting with Solidarity Symi on Monday at 2pm in the cultural centre in Yialos and everyone is welcome. There are lots of things up for discussion and not just the refugee situation on Symi, but also what the charity can do to help locals affected by the economic crisis. We are doing out little stint at the aid centre this morning, there have been refugees coming through Symi but not in the numbers we saw in August and not as many as on other islands. But keep your donations coming as any over-spill of donations will be sent on to where they are needed if not needed here.
More domestically; we have started readying the house for winter and on Symi this means: waterproofing where necessary – rain through windows, under doors etc., so shutters shut when it rains and some plastic sheeting up on the porch, also covering garden/courtyard furniture in plastic. We’ve filled in some gaps under doors and around windows where the cold north wind blasts in, so that should help. I am waiting for some thermal curtains to put up at the moussandra balcony so any heat we can generate in the sitting room is not lost to there and the oxeye at the back of the house. Neil’s been chopping the vine back and seeing to his and Louise’s plants that are sheltering in the courtyard. And we have dug out the electric blankets and spare blankets ready for when it gets really cold. It’s been fine of late though, hot in the sun and cool in the shade, average around 23 degrees. But we all know that cold and dark are on their way.
Anyway, enough rambling, I am going to leave you now with some more photos (in no particular order) and wish you a happy weekend.
