That’ll teach me to have an early(ish) night. Up at 4.30 as bright as a brass button that fell off a garment 60 years ago and has lain beneath a floorboard ever since. First things first, of course, and a cup of tea. Thanks to generous donations last year, I had enough ‘proper’ tea to last me until Bucharest at New Year, and now I’m back to the breakfast tea, which, this season, surprised me, because it is stronger than before. We have also moved on in the kettle department. Our last kettle was a poor pourer, and when you poured, so did it, in the cup and on the worksurface alike. It also had an unreliable lid, which didn’t always remain closed, thus the thing would keep boiling until turned off manually. This was the same maladjusted behaviour as shown by the kettle before that, which was the same make and model, because we never learn, and the only way to prevent the lid from popping up was to weigh it down with a statue of Hercules and Diomedes having a wrestle.
I have no idea why I told you that, but here’s a recent photo of the Pedi valley by way of compensation.
Meanwhile, the days pass in winter-to-spring mode, because it’s a little warmer and drier now than it was in January and February. Workmen and craftsmen are back building and renovating houses. Others are employed in fixing the road, and other municipal enterprises, and the all-year cafes and tavernas are still going. We walked past the International the other day and smelt the cooking. We’d have stopped in for lunch had it not been 9.30 in the morning. We’re thinking about starting to consider spring cleaning the house, but there may yet be more rain, so we will probably wait, or else find another excuse to do it another day. We’re also starting to sort out our annual health MOT as we get each year under our health insurance. If all goes to plan, we’ll spend a day in Rhodes doing some basic tests, and then arrange the consultants, hopefully for the following week, and do them all on the same day or stay over for a night and make it a Club Med(ical) holiday. ‘Another month’ was Yiannis’ line to Neil yesterday, so he’ll be back at work before we know it, and I have my office shutters open for the first time in weeks. Spring is looking up.
