I’m not going to hanging around for long today. It’s actually Wednesday and I am getting this ready ahead of time, as has become my habit of late.
I find that I can witter on aimlessly more freely at this time of day, usually around lunchtime, because I’ve got my morning work out of the way and have the rest of the day to myself. Being an early morning person I like to get straight on with thing as soon as I have got up and sat down at the desk. In the old days the blog used to be my wake up routine, now it has become my wind down routine. Either way, it still gets done.
But the reason I am not hanging around for long is that my fingers are not working properly due to the cold. I have four layers on including a new woollen jumper, there are two heaters going, one either side, and now, after five hours in this large front room, the temperature has risen from nine to nearly eighteen degrees. But still my fingers are cold and stiff and I can’t type in fingerless gloves. Even the cat is not happy with the arrangements, he keeps wandering from one heater to the other finding no satisfaction with either, it seems.
But at least I am inside and not having to be working outdoors, That must be very bitter for the workmen, builders, and others who have to go outside to work. Neil went to Yialos this morning for aerobics at the gym, brave him, as a way of shaking off a cold he has picked up. He also picked up some post and shopping and carried it all the way back up the steps. I was hoping to be taking up my morning exercise routine again by now but it’s just too cold. That’s my excuse, not that I need one, and I am staying with it.
So, pointless blog post done, a couple of pics from the archives put up, a few emails to do and then an afternoon of keeping warm, either in the sitting room or back here for another chapter of the book. Oh, and in case anyone needed to know, the wind was in the wrong direction for the Blue Star to dock this morning (Wednesday) and the next boat isn’t due in, from Rhodes, until Friday. Let’s hope the wind has died down by then. Oh yes, and the Sunrise tells us that they have got their temperature up to above 20 degrees, so there’s a warm place to hide out in, should you be on Symi and venturing out and about.
