The news from our part of the world today… I heard on the grapevine that the excursion boat, Maria, is making its first trip of the season on the 31st. I’m sure this is right, but please check in with the boat at the harbour to make sure, as this info was plucked from the shelf, not directly from the vine. What was harvested first hand, though, was the news that, currently, the Dolfin pizzeria is only doing eat-in or take away, and can’t do deliveries. If you want a job as a delivery driver, you know where to apply. The final piece of news is that it’s blowing a gale again today. Only force five on my forecast, but the trees are bending, and the shutters are complaining, the bigger ferries won’t be affected, but I’m not sure about the smaller ones.
Hopefully, there won’t be scenes like this (Click the image if it’s static):
That’s the cover for one my books, the finale to the Larkspur Mysteries, ‘The Larkspur Legacy’, but some animation thing has made the boat move. This was one of my favourite books to write. I had had it in mind from the start of the seven-book series and was writing the others with the notion that they were building to something spectacular. Why else would we need an academy for the gifted, a cartographer, sailor, historian, artist, financial wizard and so on? Because, at the end of the trail lies a massive treasure hunt that takes just about every character from both series of books and puts them in various teams. From there, it’s an amazing race from Cornwall to Egypt, to London, to various other parts of the country, and along the way people discover who they really are, who the villains are, and some even get married while some get crushed to death in a burning building… and so on.
Anyway… that was a sidestep away from local news snippets, which include the passing on of the dust cloud. We should now be dust free for the rest of the week. As you can see, yesterday things were hazy, but not through moisture, but dust. We weren’t as bad as in some places (see news from Crete, for example). Oh, and that bird you can see in the photo is a swallow as they have been back for some time.
