I suppose yesterday’s highlight was seeing the fighter jets going overhead during the May 8th parade, the helicopters landing and taking off, and seeing a police motorbike on the island. At least, they were the highlights for our godson. For me, it was the story he told of seeing the cavalcade of officialdom in their posh cars headed by the head of the church, then the top brass from the military, and then came the island dignitaries, the consuls in their flash cars, a battered old Symi farm truck that needed to be somewhere else and didn’t care, more dignitaries and military braids… Well, it made me laugh. Typical Symi.
And nothing much to do with what I wanted to tell you next, which was to point you towards my BlueSky account in case you have also made the switch from the, to my mind, sinister looking X to the more inclusive and ‘not run by a Bond villain’, BlueSky. My profile is about my books, so it might be of interest to other authors among you. You can find me here.
And talking of books, I want also to point you in the direction of another collection of novels by indie authors. This collection concerns first in series books, those novels that start off an ongoing or related series that comes after. You can find that one here.
There’s also this one with far more on offer:
https://books.bookfunnel.com/mysthrillsus-may/2258rjb4jp
Now, back to the business in hand – the weekend ahead. We’re out for dinner tonight and then, I reckon, I am staying in to bash out the next book and watch some streaming Shakespeare, possibly I’ll go for a wander around the village to get some air, otherwise, I have no plans other than the usual. The skies are cloudy today, but that’s been the norm at the start of the days this week, and we are still under a Saharan dust cloud, as we often are. This means himself will be coughing, I will be sneezing, and I’ll have to dust the shelves for the second time in the last three years… Only joking, but if you do feel a bit bunged up or sneezy, it could well be the desert getting up your nose. I’ll leave you with one of Neil’s shots from the week, and a question. Why do we say ‘desert’ for an arid landscape etc., and ‘desert’ as in to leave, yet the pronunciation of ‘to desert’ is spelt the same was as ‘dessert’ as in pudding?
