It is actually Thursday morning as I write this, now how about that for a change? I ran out of time to get ahead yesterday, what with writing and walking and heading to the harbour. So, here I am at 6.44 on Thursday morning, just back from a walk/jog up the hill to the viewpoint.
We didn’t go so far today thanks to having a ‘hitch in my giddy-up’ as a Californian once put it; a slight twinge, in other words. I didn’t want to risk a sports injury. But still, up past the museum, straight up the steps – always a hard warm-up in this humidity, then onto the road, and on up. A brief stop at the top and then down again. Simple. The sun was just coming up as we got home so I nipped up onto the roof for a quick view. And now here I am at the desk with the fan on and the mosquito spray to hand; I’ve already been got twice and I’ve only been here five minutes.
Yesterday, the harbour was pretty busy with day-trippers. I checked the post office. Found my delivery of a rather unusual DVD. A recording made at Abbey Road by Eric Wolfson of a musical about Poe. I’ve got the CD and listened to it a couple of times, but I always think musical are better watched than the soundtracks listened to on their own, they make more sense that way. So there’s that to look forward to.
After that I headed to the dentist and saw Vasilis. We had a chat, he fixed a small filling, gave me a check-up and declared I had ‘petra’ behind my bottom teeth, ‘stone’, which translates into… well, the kind of thing dentists scrape off in adverts for toothpaste. So I’ll go back and have that done soon. I made an appointment for Neil for next week while I was there and discussed the Symi Festival events. The nice things about the surgery is that it’s air conditioned; you could lie there feeling cool for hours. Were it not for the implements and purpose of your visit.
After that I wandered back up the Kali Strata, as midday – mad dogs and all that, and headed to Sotiris for shopping. It was Sotiris’ name day yesterday. I picked up some decent veg and bits and pieces and arranged for four packs of water (24 bottles) to be delivered. Habib now drops them round on his moped, it’s so much easier being on the road. And that was that. We were going to do some work in the courtyard last night but that idea fell on stony ground, so we watched a couple of films instead. And that was the day that was. Onto Thursday now and more of the same, but without the dentist.
