Boats and plants
Boats and plants today; a couple of random shots from home. The big thing by the front door has finally decided to flower, and the chilly plant is doing much better now that it is out of the sun and facing north. The green thing that takes over everything has also started to come along, and the ‘Jenni’ (because it was given to us by Jenni) looks better than it has done all year. I suspect it’s a case of less heat and the fact that we finally got around to feeding the poor things a couple of months ago.
It looks like a good time of year for sailing. There have been many boats out there with their sails up, enjoying the wind. Plenty of others with their sails down too, now that’s my kind of sailing – using an engine. Saves all that running around and being butch. Pulling on ropes and being slapped in the head by a boom. But then I am not a sailor.
Fishing boats continue to go out all year round, as it is, after all, people’s livelihoods. I was up before the dawn today and could see lights of fishing boats out over towards Nimos, and coming in from between Nimos and Symi. Later in the morning they return and sell their wares in the fish market in the harbour, or to the new fishmonger by the bridge. Some sell them along the quayside as well, and up in the village, but you need to be out and about early to get the best of the catch.
