Here we are at the end of what turned out to be a wet week. A wet one, and for some, a red one. You may have seen photos of Crete and elsewhere under a cloud of Saharan dust. The news headlines last night were comparing it to Πλανήτης Άρης, Planet Mars.
Click here to see photos from Reuters via the Guardian.
It may look as though someone has applied a filter, but that’s how it looks sometimes. When the rain dried yesterday, our courtyard had become a dusty sandpit, and I’ll be out over the weekend to brush and wash it away. That is, if the overnight rain last night hasn’t washed it away already.
We also had the large cloud over us, but it was less visually apparent because of the rain, but you can still sometimes taste it, see it or feel it. If you want to see what lies in store, you can find a prediction showing a map overlay of dust, rain, wind etc., by subject, at: https://poseidon.hcmr.gr/
There, select weather from down the page, and then see which aspect of the weather you want to look at. Meanwhile, here’s a local cat.
I reckon some of our current visitors might have had something of a surprise welcome to the South Aegean in the last few days. Some planes were cancelled, the boats were going and then not going, and the weather was as unpredictable and unwelcome as an American “President.” We were in Georgio’s for dinner last night, as were a few visitors. Being still the off-season, the menu last night was, ‘What d’you want?’ What have you got? ‘Salad, tzatziki, chicken, soup.’ What soup? ‘Chickpea.’
I opted for the soup, which was/is a deep bowl of chickpeas in a very tasty broth. It went well after Neil’s homemade carrot and pepper soup we’d had at lunchtime, and my task this morning is to single-handedly restart the island’s defunct wind turbine. I foresee no problems.
Ah, here’s a Symi spring flower…
And so, to the weekend. What lies in store? Today, I aim to complete the final check of my next instalment in the Delamere Files before moving on to the final book in the series. I also have to produce my author’s newsletter, which will go out tomorrow, and tidy my office – and making up my mind when to do that could well take me all weekend. Apart from that, some piano, some writing, and some reading, I have also promised myself I will spend an hour or so finally tidying up the courtyard. Weather permitting. Everything else permitting, I shall be back on Monday, which will be the start of Great Week in Greece, the week leading up to Easter weekend. Actually, in Greece, the weekly calendar begins on a Sunday, and it’s Palm Sunday this weekend, so I guess Holy Week starts then. And I start now, by popping off to prepare my newsletter. If you want to know more about that, take a look here, and I’ll see you soon.
