Season of Mist and…
It’s all a bit grey and misty today (Wednesday). The air is thick with humidity, parts of Nimos are in cloud, there are more clouds above us, and the coast of Turkey is receding into what, in my Saddling books, they call a ‘grey-hang’. That’s one of the words I invented for ‘mist’ in the dialect. I’m currently writing the third in the quartet, and the element behind this one is Air, the season is Autumn, and so the main feature is Mist. But how many words for mist are there that you can legitimately use within the context? It’s too easy to keep talking about ‘the mist’ or ‘the marsh mist’ and over-using ‘brume’, and words like vapour and condensation don’t work more than once, haze isn’t too bad, but cloud is a bit dull… Anyway, that’s why I invent my own words.
Here are a few shots from the house. There have been a lot of boats in latterly – we can only see the north-east end of the harbour but it’s an indication of what’s going on further in, and that’s good to see. Already today we’ve had the Blue Star and the Dodecanese come in, the day boats are expected later. I don’t know if you picked up on yesterday’s’ blog where I mentioned the Sebeco making a trip to Panormitis? As I understand it, you can get there and back by boat, from Yialos, in the afternoons. You won’t have much time there but what you can do is take the bus over and the boat back – just an idea. You can also walk too (approx. four hours), take the bus both ways, or, if coming from Rhodes, take a trip there on your way to Yialos.
Waffling now, so off to do some typing-waffling and invent more words for ‘mist’ – if anyone has any obscure dialect words they know of (English) I’d be fascinated to hear (and maybe use) them.
