I’ve heard a few people recently commenting on how colourful the island is at the moment, plant-wise, that is. It’s probably because we had a fair amount of rain, and it’s not yet been too hot. Because Easter was early, it feels like we should be in full season swing by now, and you have to remember it’s only May, where it feels like June. Except, the weather has remained reasonable, cloudy, windy, sunny, and a bit of everything and hasn’t yet settled into 30°+ every day. Yet. Anyway, I thought, as I was clearing my head of random thoughts and putting them on paper, I would put up some pictures showing a couple of the colours you can see right now. They will all soon be gone, I am sure, and we’ll be back to burnt earth browns.
How things change, yet remain the same. (I couldn’t be bothered to look up the quote.) In ‘the old days’ people used to have to clock into work; punch a card to show arrival and departure times. Well, the Greek government have now brought that back, so yesterday, Neil and Yiannis had a demonstration on how to use the tablet and phone technique of clicking in and out of work. All very well if your job is nine to five, five days a week, not so handy if you work in, say, hospitality as a private concern with arrivals and departures at all hours. Or if you are employed to clean properties after guests have left, because your start and stop times will vary. I’m not sure how that is going to work.
What this modern technology has done, though, is make it easier for me to pay the phone/internet bill. It came in yesterday to the phone, so I went to the app, checked the amount was correct, and paid, all while sitting outside the bar. In ‘the old days’, paying the bill would have entailed walking down to the harbour in the hope the office was open, only to find it closed, sitting around for a couple of hours because the whisper was, ‘He’s just popped out on a job’, having lunch, finding he was still ‘popped out’, having afternoon tea, and walking home again with the bill unpaid. Now, you can even pay your bills while you’re sitting on the loo. (Checks spelling. Fine.)
And so, to work. I am in the middle of a complicated scene which would work so much more easily on a screen, though it would have to be a screen split is several ways to show four different things happening all at once. Not so easy to do in a book, but it’s fun working it all out.
