Continuing the brief chat about the weekend… The Rhodes boat on a Friday may as well be called the Symi boat as half the island seems to pop across that day. Mind you, it’s a decent sailing time (08.45) whereas the others are much earlier. It also means you see a fair few familiar faces as you go about your business, and there’s a lively atmosphere on the boat on the way back.
We managed to miss the rain in the afternoon, but only just. Otherwise, it was a fun day with lots of walking as it’s easy to spend an hour walking from A (beyond St Nikolas) to B (Mandraki) without noticing because the ground is mainly flat, and you have a UNESCO World Heritage Site to admire on the way.
So, on returning home… On Saturday, I thought I’d forgo my writing morning and set up the new laptop instead. This is always a journey, and this time was no exception. It took me until Monday to get the email accounts set up in Outlook, despite the details/servers being exactly the same. In the end, I needed the help of my server technicians who were very helpful. Next is to transfer the old email data and files. Other programmes I’ll need to transfer or reload will come to lit in time because I don’t really use anything other than the basics.
Which leaves Sunday, when we spent the day preparing for a logical family dinner. The preparations had begun on Friday with buying some supplies and continued on Saturday with himself making chocolate domes and ice cream, and continued on Sunday with me preparing to do the two other courses. The first was bouyiourdi, which even Sam had trouble pronouncing, but I had no trouble making, and the second was steak and pepper sauce. In between was much laughter, and afterwards, even more as we all watched the homemade DVD of Neil and I in South America from 2007.
And that was the weekend. Yesterday, I stayed in, finished setting up this new machine, did a piano lesson and spent some time at Harland & Wolff. There will be another progress update in due course. While the Titanic is being fitted out, I am awaiting the arrival of ‘Big Boy’, which I will also introduce you to in due course…
