I can’t believe it’s not summer
It’s hard to believe we are heading towards the end of October. It’s warm enough to have my tea on the balcony at five in the morning, I haven’t needed to put a hoodie or jumper on in the evenings when outside and the temperatures have been in the high twenties. Apart from a couple of rainy days, October has been very mild so far, and although the number of day boats coming in has lessened of late, the ones that come in are bringing loads of visitors. Not the same numbers as the height of the season, of course, but still…
I took these photos with my proper camera, from a distance while wearing my contact lenses. The trouble with these lenses is, I can’t clearly see what I am photographing, or if the focus is correct, not without putting on my magnifier glasses. Long-distance is fine, as is middle distance, but closer up isn’t wonderful. This could be because I think I am wearing them upside down. I’m sure I was told to have the arrows pointing outwards (they are multi-focal lenses), so the right one has the arrow pointing to the right, the left to the left, trouble is, if I do that, long-distance is blurred, and after having them for a couple of months, remains blurred. So, the other day, I tried them with the arrows pointing inwards and lo! Long and middle-distance are fine, and I can see as close up as about one foot away, the same as my glasses, and only then do things become blurred. Maybe I misheard, and I am wearing them correctly at last. Still, it makes looking through the camera a bit tricky. Thank heavens for auto-focus, I say.
Although summer may be gradually fading and life quietening down, we seem to have suddenly picked up a busy-ish week. I have godson #1 popping in later to discuss when we start piano lessons, Yiannis is arranging transport for four of us to go up to the Ag Dimitris festival in the hills on Saturday, a farewell dinner is planned for next week with some friends, we have Neil’s unofficial birthday coming up, the proof-reader needs my latest book by Monday when Godson is also in the Oxi Day parade, and the cover designer has come up with a cracking cover, so I have to get that book finished. So, there’s plenty going on, and the sun is still shining. (Famous last words?)
