You want to know how cold it can get here on Symi in the winter? Check out this photo which I have borrowed from Mihalis Tsavaris, it was on Facebook and looks like it was taken up in the hills.
We had a similar scene on our rosemary bush a couple of years go where the water runs off the roof, but it’s not been doing that this winter so far, so I can’t get a picture of my own, of icicles on Symi I mean. So, thank you Michaelis for this one.
Despite the cold we went down to Pedi for a walk on Thursday and I took the other images you can see on today’s blog. On Friday I tried to get some work done in the front room but even with both heaters on it didn’t get above 10 degrees, and typing with gloves on is not the easiest thing to do, so I gave up on that and diverted my mind to other matters.
Such as the leak the bath tap has developed and how to deal with it. That, as I write, is still on going. (Thursday morning – I am getting this done before evacuating the front room and closing the door on what I used to call ‘the fridge.’ I am now calling it ‘the freezer.’
The other freezer in the house is, currently, the bathroom, which makes for fairly unpleasant showers in the morning. But they ho! The sun is shining, we’re still breathing and we’re living on a Greek island; it’s what you have to expect. So, let’s look ahead to the weekend and what’s planned? Well, nothing really. Perhaps a walk on Sunday when the temp should be up a bit thanks to cloud heading our way. Perhaps some work in the garden (3/10 on the possibility scale), maybe another chapter of the book (9/10 as long as the front room warms up) and maybe an evening out, as we’ve not been out all week, apart from a walk. (8/10, depends on money.)
What’s a cert for next week is hunting through the postal services again as things ordered ten weeks ago have still not arrived. I suspect Christmas delays and apathy are to blame. Not by anyone here on Symi, the thing definitely has not reached the island, but by the courier service who, online, tell us that the thing waited for arrived with them, in Greece, on 21st Decemeber, they even rang but had no idea where Symi was. We’ll be hunting them down again next week.
