I hope you enjoyed our four day walk. You will be pleased to know that we are back to more usual posts now, though only for a couple of days. Next week I am going to run a week-long advertising campaign, showing a book or a calendar every day, maybe two books. It’s that present buying time of year again so I thought, now’s the time to give you some info and maybe clips from some of the Symi books and my novels, in case you were short on ideas of what to get for people. Things ordered next week should arrive in plenty of time.
Before that though, there’s some catching up to be done. And to start that off, today I’ve been asked to pass on a message from Symi Animal Welfare. So here it is:
“The weather is slowly becoming more wintery now and many houses are closed up, their summer residents gone until at least spring 2015. Cats who have enjoyed food during much of the summer & autumn at these houses have relocated, usually to one of the nearby rubbish bins or skips. Their winter diet may not consist of tasty BBQ titbits or one of the more expensive cat-feed brands available over the next few months, but alternative food will be delivered 2 or 3 times per week by one of our volunteers – as always, an enticing mixture of pasta, biscuits & canned food. Most supplies for the 2014/15 winter feeding programme were delivered earlier today so we have been distributing some of them to volunteers in Pedi, Harani & Mylos areas this afternoon. This year, Suzan has organised supplies for the harbour & Nimborio whilst I am responsible for Chorio & Pedi – as there are now so many feeding stations, we decided that a ‘job-share’ was really necessary.
We are also finalising arrangements for an Australian vet who arrives next week for a few days, her visit to Symi comes at the end of a sponsored, outreach neutering project to other islands. This is an extremely positive start to what can be such a bad period for street cats, your donations & support + our conscientious volunteers will help Symi’s cats survive yet another winter.
Thank you all, Melanie, Suzan, Hazel, Tove & Claudia”
As usual, you can find out more about Symi Animal Welfare by clicking to their site.
And as for us? Well, Neil’s meeting his landlady today to formally hand back the shop and its keys. He’s been to Rhodes to end his phone contract at the shop, and his accountant has been dealing with all other paperwork. Tell you what, if you are thinking of opening a business in Greece, you best check out how much it costs to close one down! No wonder people don’t bother and just wander away leaving debts and things unpaid.
But on the lighter side, well, not that light actually, the Ikea things arrived and were carried up to the house, the cabinet is together, Neil bought a floor-standing light that is too tall for his new office, so I’ve got that towering over me like a 1950s hair salon dryer, and there’s a long box on my office floor which should soon transform into a book case. If only I could remember where I put that screwdriver for safekeeping…
