An early morning news roundup
I was so involved in my editing yesterday that I forgot to prepare a blog, so I am doing it at 4.30 this morning instead. Oh, the things I do for you, I don’t know! Actually, it wasn’t just editing that tied me up yesterday. I also had to visit the post office to send my contract to the electricity company, which I did early so as to avoid any rush. I can tell you, it’s not much fun walking up the Kali Strata in a mask, not even at eight in the morning in February, but I managed it without stopping. I popped into Sotiris for a bag of frozen peas and a litre of milk (the essentials), before returning to my desk. An hour after returning home, I received an email from DEH to say that my new contract starts/started on 4th Feb in my name. Gosh, I thought, that paperwork took only 90 minutes to be couriered to Athens.
Today, there’s more editing to be done as I have a deadline for Sunday, and while I am doing that, Neil is planning to walk to Stavros Tou Polemou, so there should be even more hinterland photos in a few days’ time.
In other news… Er… Athens and parts of the mainland have been put into a ‘full’ lockdown. I’m not 100% sure what that means, as I thought we all were in one anyway, and I think the idea is so that numbers fall (obviously) but fall enough to allow some kind of Easter celebrations this year. Here in the south, our group of islands is still one of the few green zones in Europe, which is good news, and let’s hope it stays that way. Vaccinations have started, with some elderly people being given the vaccination on the island, which is also good news as it means they didn’t have to travel to Rhodes to receive them, which would almost have defeated the point.
That, and the news that I now have a household bill in my name after nearly 19 years, is the only news fit to print at this time of the morning, so I will now get on with my day.
