The trouble with the world today…
It’s turning out to be quite a hectic weekend and it’s only Sunday morning. We were down in Yialos on Saturday and it was heaving, as they say. Well, it was certainly very busy for October 1st with three day boats in and a cruise ship back in again. We had lunch at Meraklis and it was just about full, George and Maria were scurrying about all over the place, working hard.
We also did some wandering around and shopping, as you’ll see from upcoming photos, had a coffee here and an ice cream there, it’s rather like being on holiday. In the evening we went to a memorial gathering at Tolis Taverna in Pedi where there was singing and dancing, poetry reading and speeches, a nice buffet and a good time had by all. We left at 11.30 and it was still going on – a bus had been provided for 12.30 but if I’d stayed that late I’d not have got up on Sunday morning, it was difficult enough as it was.
Sunday evening: we have an invite to drinks at Taxiarchis, next week we have guests coming on Tuesday, we may all be off on a boat trip on Friday as Neil has a very rare day off work, I have the dentist to look forward to on Thursday and… well, apart from that I think I’ll be on holiday for a while. It’s a lovely sunny Sunday out there, the sea is calm, the temperature was up to around 30 yesterday and it looks like it’s going to be the same again today.
One thing I did note just now online was a supermarket (not here but in the UK) selling peeled oranges in plastic tubs and labelling them ‘fresh produce.’ I mean… come on people – who needs to have an orange peeled and ready to go at a moment’s notice? And how can it be fresh if it’s been peeled and is sitting there in plastic on a shelf? And why waste that money, packaging and advertising on such a thing? And what about the environmental considerations of the plastic container when oranges come in a perfectly good (and edible if you like it) package of their own? Sheesh -I hope you never feel the need to buy an allegedly fresh orange just because someone has peeled it for you? ‘Ah yes, but there are people out there who can’t peel oranges,’ you cry! Well, take a look at the package, I reckon that’s just as hard to open as orange peel. Honestly, makes me laugh – kind of. No wonder the world is going to hell in a handbag. As Kander and Ebb wrote (well, Fred Ebb, as he did the words), ‘The trouble with the world today it seems to me, is coffee in a cardboard cup…’ Or peeled oranges for those too lazy to peel them themselves. Sheesh! Here’s a photo of some shoes:
