Well, the move over to this new look blog hasn’t run too smoothly and neither have the waterworks at the house.
It’s a marvel, our plumbing, a marvel that it works at all. In case you have ever wondered how it all runs around here, in our case: We fill the ‘sterna’ under the house from the mains water supply whenever it needs topping up. Then, when we turn on a tap, the pump up on the flat roof, kicks in and draws the water up from under the sitting room, where the sterna is, and to the roof. It then runs along exposed pipes to the very end of the house and the kitchen roof, where it disappears into the concrete, reaching the hot water tank and kitchen sink first before heading back towards the pump and the bathroom. It does a kind of round trip to reach its destination.
If the pump goes wrong we have no water; end of story. Our old one was going wrong, leaking slightly, so we’d wake up in the morning to no water anywhere and have to go and jump start it, so Ian (another marvel) came and put a new pump on for us. That worked marvellously for a while and then conked out due to an airlock somewhere, so he came straight back and fixed that too. Marvelous!
And then we woke up on Sunday morning with water in the taps and shower, but not in the W.C. How very odd. So, that’s still an on-going wonder to be performed.
Meanwhile, I am in the office grappling with the new site. I had it all prepared with the adverts and widgets and pages and everything, and it was being created in a folder ‘over there’ somewhere off stage. Then, when the guys who run the server and do the maintenance for me moved it across to where it is now, half of the content got left behind (something to do with backups of images only happening every few days). Not a huge problem as I had all the codes and pictures and things so only had to spend another two hours putting it back together. But the ‘add to Facebook’ and other little plug-ins that appear are/were not working so I spent Saturday and half of Sunday in an exchange of emails with the server folk about that. If you see and use a share or like button and get a ‘500 internal server error’, it’s not you, it’s us and it should all be better soon.
So, the plumbing and the site both having internal errors eh? Whatever next? Well, for us, this week, what comes next is: Working from home, Neil painting the inside of the now empty shop ready to hand it back, some business to attend to with the accountant down town, a walk to Nimborio on Wednesday for lunch, working on the new book, ‘Lonely House’ and getting it ready for RC Publishing (Rousseau-Collins, or Jack’n’Me) and aiming to have it ready for the New Year, a walk up to Kokimidis on Saturday for the St Michael Panormitis festival, and also planning a trip to Kos or Patmos for a few days towards the end of the month if the weather and finances hold. The savings have taken a bit of a pre-Christmas bash as things have now been ordered for small children and grown up children alike, but the weather has held and it’s been a very sunny weekend.
