Symi Dream Calendar 2019
Here are a few news updates for you. To start with, Neil’s Symi Dream calendar for 2019 is now ready and for sale. It is only available online so don’t ask if we can keep you a copy because we don’t have any. I have to say that because I say it every year and people still ask if they can buy it on the island. No. It’s exclusive to this link: Symi Dream Calendar 2019. It’s the same price as all previous years, though postage may vary, and it can be bought in any currency. The proceeds go towards helping us look after the bin cats in our lane in the winter. You’re able to look through an online preview when you get to that page.
Last Friday, the Blue Star Patmos came into the south side of the harbour at the new landing stage – you may need to know this if you are planning to use it. I’m on it on Friday night going to Athens (no blog for a few days next week), so will watch in the morning to make sure I know what side it’s on. I assume it will dock on the new southside jetty from now on, but you’d better ask, rather than take my word for it.
The next piece of info comes from the Symi International Film Festival and reads: “Symi International Film Festival news. The Earlybird deadline has passed with 137 submissions from 37 countries. Total run time so far is 55 hours, so the selection committee has a lot of work to do. The Standard Deadline is 30 June with submission fees ranging from $4.00 to $15.00 (US). and the late deadline is 15 July.”
The next isn’t news, but just a local story. We were at Georgio’s on Friday night, having a light supper… Well, it was light until the free wine started to appear from the kitchen. I was on my way down to use the facilities out the back and reached the bottom of the steps in the back courtyard when something moved a few inches to my right. Usually, when something rustles like that, I assume snake, spider, rat, mouse, cat and not always in that order. It wasn’t any of those things, it was a little owl playing with a dustpan. I looked at him, he looked at me as if to say, ‘What’s it got to do with you, pal?’ I was politer and said, ‘Hello, what are you doing here?’ and he flew off silently. I’ve never been that close to one of them before; they’re really cute, but clearly aren’t masters of conversation.
And finally, in other non-news events, the local authority has started work on clearing the weeds from in front of the house.
