Last night we saw something we’ve never seen before. No, it wasn’t the inside of my wallet, nor was it Neil in sensible clothing, not even was it me doing sit-ups, it was, in fact, two boats. I put this distant photo up on Fakebook so you may have seen it, but if you zoom in and look beneath the anrevat* sign, you can see what I’m on about.
Two Blue Star ferries in the harbour at the same time. Not something you see every day, or even every 22 years. There’s to be at least one per day for the rest of the week because of the festival at Panormitis (7th, 8th, 9th).
Now, that has just annoyed me. Not the festival or the boats, but the way my Word programme changed the large th in 7th to 7th (superscript). I’m annoyed because I changed that ‘autoformat as you type’ command some time ago because it looks better in book manuscripts to have 7th with a larger th, but the programme has taken on itself to change it back again. It’s like when you copy and paste from one program to another, it changes the font. Or, when you use a Microsoft template, it starts you off in some font that on-one in their right mind would use for anything, ever.
Deep breath…
Yesterday: we learnt the house is going to be back up for sale, but if/when it’s sold, we can move across the road if we want to (and if that property ever gets its own water supply, gets emptied, restored and cleaned up – it’s not been opened for at least four years). Also, yesterday’s piano lesson: fancy sight-reading this Bach prelude? (Another one, this time in C minor.) Ok. Off you go, and off he went. Blimey and bravo. It’s going to be a week of the two of them as the older one is coming today to clear up the area in front of the house, then the younger one’s back for piano on Thursday, and they’re both coming for a ‘boys’ night’ on Saturday. Neil suggested H and I do the cooking for that, to which H replied, ‘No, we’re the entertainment,’ which made us laugh.
And, as you might have seen from the photo above, there are few boats in the harbour now. We still had the Symi II come in yesterday, and it is Panormitis week, so we can expect it to be busy as the week goes on.
What be this?
It be one of these:
*Anrevat is Taverna backwards, and that’s how you see the sign when you are on one side of it.
