Well, I say lots… Today is a big day in the church calendar. I’ll let Jenine explain:
15th August is one of the biggest days in the Greek orthodox church calendar…the day that the Virgin Mary is celebrated. Everyone takes their holiday at this time, a chance for the city dwellers to visit their families on the islands and have a merry time. Yesterday was the evening service and tonight the dancing and barbeque feast. Chronia Polla! (I borrowed that from her Facebook page.)
That’s one thing, another is Upload Day, which means, for me, uploading the final files for my next book. More news when I have the link to its Amazon page.
Also today, I have the mundane bits and pieces to do, like paying the electricity bill and paying the mobile phone bills. Allegedly so much easier now it’s done online. Years ago, we’d have to take the pieces of paper down to the harbour and hope to find the appropriate office or bank open and without too long a queue; always a bit hit and miss. Now it’s a case of:
Open online banking, “Password expired, Please reset your password.” “Enter existing password”, think you know it, get it wrong. Try again. Get it wrong. Look in book, find a password, enter it, get it wrong. You have blocked your account. No, you have blocked my account… Find phone, make phone call. Press one for this, two for that, three to get ready and four to go to English. Get cut off.
Start again; one, two, three, four… Listen to Mozart’s 110th symphony recorded underwater and played back through a tin can and a length of string.
‘Your call is very important to us.’
Hayden’s 177th symphony played on a kazoo and a Stylophone.
‘Your call is very important to us.’
Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
‘Your call is…’
Apparently not.
Phone finally connects. It’s not in English but it says, press one to be ignored, press two for Bach’s entire output, press three for… ‘Kalimera?’ Oh joy. Explain problem in great depth (we’d got locked out of internet banking, in case you were distracted by the adagio and forgot where we were), and receive reply, ‘You will need to go into your branch.’
Luckily we have one on the island, so… down 400 steps, into bank, deal with issue, up 400 steps. Please enter your new password.
Doesn’t work.
Anyway… That’s not happened, I was just filling in white space.
So, the celebrations for the day started last night with church services, and by the sound of it, many people thirsting after righteousness and partying the night away until half three. They will continue through the day, no doubt, and culminate this evening at the church on the Pedi road.
If you are driving there (and I don’t advise it), you might like to check out the new speed reduction measure at the junction. Apparently, this appeared overnight the other day (you know what I mean), and so far, seems to be doing its job.
It’s just this sort of photo that accounts for news in my life. I am so provincial.
