Sunday morning zoom
Never be afraid to ask, that’s the moto of the day. Here are two examples where it didn’t hurt to ask. First of all: when trying to get home after a late, long, lovely, lush and other L-word lunch in Harani and finding no taxi available and no bus for nearly an hour, don’t be afraid to stick your thumb out and flag down a passing car. ‘Can you give us a lift?’ ‘Certainly, hop in.’ And off you go. It doesn’t always work, but the chances are it will be someone you know and they will be happy to oblige if they can. At least, it works/worked here on Symi.
The other example is: I am/was looking for a new camera as a) mine is an underwater one that’s not so good on zoom, b) it’s a bit old now and c) I have no idea where it went – so I have no camera. (Apart from the two large Nikons and one large Cannon (that has never worked properly) that Neil uses.) So, I asked a friend what his camera was, knowing that I’d seen it in action and it was the kind of thing I was looking for. I asked the make and model so I could look it up with a view to buying one. Turns out, he’s had and upgrade and the old one is available. Not only that but I can borrow it for a test run and see what I think. So, today’s photos are taken from the roof this morning (Sunday) where I was testing out the zoom. I have to say, I am very impressed and I think there will be an offer in the offing soon.
As for the rest of the weekend… We were hanging on, waiting for a huge storm that was promised and that didn’t really arrive, though there have been some very windy moments and some heavy rain. As you can see, Sunday was bright and clear and cold in the morning. The wind, when there is some, is from the north-west and, looking at Windfinder.com, is set to change from NNW to N to NE to ESE to E to WSW to SSW to S… over the next few days. It seems the wind doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going, but it will be getting stronger, and is due to bring more rain during the week. I think we’ve already had more colder and rainier weather than we had last winter; the current air temp of 5 degrees is due to warm up during the week to a heady 13 or 14 by next weekend; that’ll be the cloud cover helping, I guess.
That’s the weather for the week ahead. The diary contains only a little piano playing, a games afternoon/evening, moving house (not us) and a lot of the usual typing. Neil is working hard on his course, I am pottering about with books, there are 101 household things to be done and maybe, if I can get into the mood, some walking. The aerobics classes also start again today (if you’re local, see Dawn for details) though they are not for me, and the children are back at school now for the long term and run up to Easter. That’ll be on us before we know with carnival and Clean Monday and all that comes with it.
But I am getting ahead of myself, so I will go back, post this blog and then check out what jobs I need to be doing today: Shopping, putting the clothes away, getting some washing dry between the rain, sweeping up the last of the vine leaves from the courtyard (must cut it back soon) and picking up leftover Christmas tinsel that seems to get everywhere and that is usually hanging around in unexpected places until summer. Have a good week.
