Some bits and pieces
I have picked up on a couple of things that might be of interest to you today. I’ll have a quick chat about them while showing you some of the lazy photos taken from my window over the past couple of days. I’ve not been out an about much since the weekend, it’s cold and there is no need, so what’s the point? I have spent a lot of time at home updating my recently destroyed autocorrect changes, turning the water pump back on several times a day, sweeping up the mountain of cat litter Jack manages to throw out of his box every night, trying to warm the house, writing letters to water pump manufacturers in Italy (two €400 pumps going wrong in six months, not a good thing but I doubt I shall hear back) and thinking about doing some more Donkey work, and then finding I have spent so long warming the sitting room to an acceptable level that I have neglected the office and it’s too darn cold to go back there and start writing again. (And it’s actually not that cold out, ten degrees or so; due to be down to three next Monday.) The kitchen alternative is just as cold. But, while pottering around with all that, I also found these news items:
“Greece has seen 21 times more migrants arrive on its shores so far this month [January] than in all of January 2015, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. By the end of the year [2015] the country alone saw well over 850,000 arrivals.” That’s according to ekthimerini.com and the article link is here.
The other thing I picked up on is an interview with Anne Zouroudi on ‘effrosyni writes’, a blog by fellow indie author Effrosyni Moschoudi. You might like to read the interview here. The good news is that Anne is starting work on more ‘Greek Detective’ novels; where the last series was based around the seven deadly sins, the next one is going to be based around the Ten Commandments. Looking forward to that or what?
In other news, I have been sent a link to the score for ‘the Thirteenth’ as ‘The Judas Curse’ is now called. I have downloaded it and will give it a play through soon. I played a little of it (to make sure I’d converted the file correctly so I could play it on my CD player) and it sounds great. I thought it would be good to give the whole thing a play through to get an idea of the overall tone, the atmosphere and the style, but you really need the visuals to make sense of the music. I’ll have a go at that later today perhaps.
I saw the Blue Star come in yesterday, Wednesday, on its usual run to Rhodes. It had come back through on Monday rather than Friday last because of the storm we had. I wondered if, when you are booked into the boat for the Friday evening sailing but find you are not leaving until Monday, do you get a free cabin for the weekend? Not that I would like to find out, not in Rhodes. I wouldn’t mind if I was stranded on an island I’d not been to before, as long as the cabin was free. And there may be other disruptions later this week as there is another strike due. This is in protest over what the government is having to do to workers’ pensions or something equally as justified.
There you go, a few snippets of stuff for a Thursday morning. Now, back to the heating and trying to warm my toes and fingers.
