My style of Symi News live from the desk at 06.40 this morning: The Panagia Skiadeni has just gone out, the sun has just come up and I have just sat down at the desk with a mug of hot water and lemon. Mr Hayfever is next door in his office checking his emails and Jack the cat is still out in the ‘hood somewhere. Here are some photos of the sun-up this morning.
Jack went out, or was put out, two nights ago and hasn’t been home since. We’re not worried. He usually comes back anywhere between nine in the morning and three in the afternoon. Yesterday he wasn’t back by the time we went to Yialos, and then we didn’t get back until early evening and, by then, he’d probably decided to stay out anyway. No doubt he’ll be back soon enough, shouting the house down.
Talking of noise; I walked down to Pedi this morning for a change and was practically deafened by the noise. You can tell you’re rural when all you can hear are 101 cockerels going off, dogs barking, chickens fussing about a couple of sheep that were, as far as I could see, rutting, birds waking up – and that includes the one outside the window which sounds like a football rattle crossed with a machine gun – and goats bleating. I was passed by one truck in the forty minutes it took me to walk down, take some photos and walk back up again.
It’s still too early for swimming, for me. I tend to go in on August 12th and leave it at that, just to be safe. No, not really. Last year we went a couple of times per week through July and August, I may do that again, when the sun comes up earlier and I can get up at 5.30 and be back at the desk by seven.
We managed to get lots of ‘formal’ things done yesterday; enquiries at the accountants, papers from the doctor, and so on. We also saw another clutch of refugees heading around to the Symi for a trip on to Rhodes, leaving even more at the police station being ‘processed.’ We visited the nautical museum and the antique shop that is also housed there now. A great idea; the museum can now be open in return for someone housing their shop in the downstairs part; previously it was generally closed.
And that’s today’s Symi News from my desk. I have things to be getting on with today, mainly around the house and I am not planning to go anywhere today, though we may be planting some plants in brightly coloured pots we bought yesterday, and no doubt Mr Hayfever will be sneezing a lot. It doesn’t get much more newsier than that.
