Wednesday: A morning at home, clearing up after the rain. Only having to clear up outside is a nice experience, the inside of the house was perfectly dry.
Rhodes airport woke up to find an eight meter long hole in its taxi-way yesterday morning. Apparently there had been a repair made there before but the storm has caused the problem to open up again. Flights were, naturally, suspended and then, when things started up again, delayed. A bit of a shame for some people who left the island a day early (due to the storm) to ensure that they were in time for their flights. They then also discovered that not only did both boats leave Symi on Wednesday morning but they were both on time – but better safe than missing flights. The Diagoras was only about 15 minutes late, which constitutes ‘on time’ around here. And, apparently, it was still raining in Rhodes though Symi was mainly fine – cooler and a bit of cloud.
I spent the morning at my desk –hence the photos from the window – and was in touch with the film production studio about what was once called ‘the Judas Curse’ and which is now called ‘the Thirteenth’ and which is based on ‘The Judas Inheritance’ which you can find here if you have not already got a copy. The latest news is that they are still trying to iron out a couple of edits, but it’s taking a while because the editor is working for free; but hopefully he’ll be able to get the things done this week. Then they’ve got to add the music, and then the colour grading and then the sound (maybe not in that order) and then the credits, so four more stages to go through before they have a finished thing ready to sell to distributors. There should be a Kickstarter update soon I am told, but that’s all the news I know for now.
Something else I woke up to yesterday was an interesting story I found via Facebook. Thing is, it was on one of those sites that has so many up-sell adverts you have to wait ages for the page to load, and then when you try and scroll, it seizes up your browser because there are so many ads. And all, I may add (ha ha) for things I’ve already got. I know we have a couple of adverts on this site, the Booking.com thing and one at the bottom of posts, but hopefully they don’t jam things up too badly. Not much point over-advertising if no one can actually view your site. I also woke up to the continuing cold, but found some cold and flu tablets I’d bought for a refugee guy (who then vanished) so I was able to take a couple of them myself.
And on the refugee topic – looking out of our window I can’t see anyone waiting around the police station, but that doesn’t mean we have not had any refugees landing here of late. Also, the Blue Star Diagoras came through so may have taken people to Rhodes. We are due back to volunteer on Saturday so will get an update then, but the charity has nearly reached its £30k target and, as of Wednesday, only needed £2,524.56 to break through its latest target.
Other than that, and getting caught in the rain on Tuesday evening, a few times, and getting stuck in the bar for a while on the way home due to Kali Strata flooding, and then having a mainly sleepless night due to cold and ear noise… all is well with the Symi world.
