Ploughing on with the novel though I’m pretty sure I will need to revisit the second half. It’s a complicated story and I might have made it over complicated in at least one place. I’ll get a proof copy of it soon and while I wait for that to arrive I’ll think about writing something else.
That was a kind of note to self as I think of what to write about today. Today is actually Tuesday as I’m writing this the day before so I have my early morning free. Neil’s just back from the dentist and Yialos. He bought some cat litter (not from the dentist), and some shopping, loads of cat food and some lemons and then carried it all back up the steps, arriving home looking a little damp. It’s still pretty hot out there and will be for a while yet.
There was a concert in Yialos last night with one of the local bands on the main stage and there’s another concert in the square tonight (Tuesday). We are having one of those weeks where you start out with nothing planned and end up, after a day, with only two free evenings out of seven. Not complaining, we love being taken to dinner and being invited for drinks. We also like inviting folk to the new house, which is so much more convenient to do now we are closer to the main square and don’t have to worry about the shop.
So, it looks like it is going to be a busy week, and we probably won’t have much opportunity to get up early and head out, which is what we did this morning. Leaving the house at around 5.40, we passed a small group of foreign girls on the steps by the square. They were drinking water but I fear it may have been a case of stable door and bolted horses. It also sounded like someone had had a bit of a falling out with the Greek boy of her dreams who she met only yesterday and who asked her to marry him before supper, during which he met someone else and she changed her mind, much though she still loves him and will never forget him… you know, what’s his name?
After that is was plain sailing, for us at least, heading up the lane and through the village to the usual route to To Vrisi. The girls had gone by the time we came back to the square about fifty minutes later, perhaps the wedding was on again. I then spent the rest of the day, up until writing this, at this desk working, apart from a break to make a veg soup for lunch. So there, that was my thrilling and exciting Tuesday morning. Life on a Greek island eh? Doesn’t get much more thrilling…
