The return trip to the dentist in Rhodes tomorrow is off. That’s thanks to the weather and the resulting change in the Blue Star timetable. (And not wanting to add another €300 or so to the bill by going yesterday and spending until Monday there, or coming back on a boat at two in the morning on Saturday.) We once worked out that if we wanted to go to the cinema, it would cost us over €200, what with hotels and feeding, etc., Mind you, these days, if we did, we’d stay at the Castellum (where we will be staying in a couple of weeks), and pay only €75 for a night with all our meals and drinks included, so a cinema trip would probably now only cost us around €150 if we were careful.
Anyway, not what I was going to say. It’s been raining already, and we’re expecting a big storm over the next two days, so I plan to stay in as much as possible. Here’s the new look for Rhodes rainfall on Friday afternoon, and the wind is just as bad.
I had a successful trip to town yesterday. A check up on the teeth, and now the naughty one has had its roots pulled out, the others around it seem to be behaving and don’t need any work, at least for now, so that’s good news. I picked up some supplies for our forthcoming trip, some new joggers, and some USB rechargeable heated gloves, some… What? No, honestly, it’s a thing. Two things, in fact, and they work. They are for when the office is down at 6° in the winter, and it’s hard to type. Some days, it can take me all morning to get the room up to 10°, and some days, I simply don’t bother coming into work, but take work home with me (and write at the kitchen table). That’s all to come after Christmas.
Before that, we have a long-planned and saved-for trip, and we’ll be leaving two weeks tomorrow, or earlier if the weather looks like it’s going to be dodgy. More about that in due course.
As for today, I am planning to hoover the office carpet, which is always something of a workout, then there’s some piano playing, and a guidebook to work on. I’ve also started on another winter project, which is to transfer my old music from CD to digital storage before the CDs refuse to stop playing. This is my music, btw, not other people’s CDs, but the cabaret recordings, and the theatre show studio recordings.
So, there’s plenty going on, and it’s all going to go on behind shuttered windows with towels ready in vulnerable places, like the porch.
