The week
Ah well, the wind has come and gone but may be back, the sky is white/grey with warm cloud cover, but the sea is calm, and there are no white waves being swept into the harbour as there were on Sunday. I can honestly say I did not set foot outside of the house all day, but I did look out of the window once or twice. I spent a lot of time at my writing desk, as opposed to the computer pod, writing notes longhand, notes which I will never be able to read again. If you think my typing is bad, you should see my handwriting.
This week is shaping up to be a quiet one – famous last words. The 8th May parade is happening on Wednesday, so that will liven up the morning, and I know of a few regular visitors who are arriving this week as the season starts to busy up. May/June and September/October are usually popular months for northern Europeans, while July and August are favoured by the southern Europeans, mainly French and Italian. We’ve already seen several Israeli groups coming over from Rhodes, a few yachts, sailors and gin-palace floating hotels, and have had a couple of walking and painting groups, here to benefit from the mild temperatures we get (usually) at this time of year.
Looking in the diary, my week is dominated by payments; my Microsoft subscription and final payment for my accommodation on Tilos at the end of the month. Luckily, both are saved for and ready to go. I’m heading across the water for the last week of May to do one of my writing retreats; a chance to work all day without only self-induced interruptions, answering the doorbell, watching TV, shopping and so on, and I am staying in the same place as last time, which was, I realise, two years ago… Or was it three? Whatever. I shall be there in a few weeks ready to start on a new story of some sort with lots of background reading on various scandals in Victorian London in the 1880/1890 period. I’m hoping my research books arrive by then, the rest of them that is. I have two on The Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889, one about Victorian crime generally, another that is a collection of writings from a range of observers at the time, both writers and the general public, and a book of Victorian slang. If the two new ones I’ve ordered arrive in time, I will also have books about stately homes; the working of and design of. I might need a larger suitcase. So, plenty of reading for when I am not writing, or having a break in the square. I’m not sure if there will be a blog for that week, we’ll have to wait and see.
