My cloud storage has this thing where it shows you photos from this day in (my) history, in today’s case, last week through the years. With a distinct lack of anything else on my mind apart from chapter 17, which I will get to later, I thought I’d have a browse through and see what I was up to this time last year and the year before and so on.
One year ago, apparently, I wasn’t doing very much. There are a few photos of the back of the village, so I assume I was going for walks in the morning, something I’ve not done for a couple of weeks thanks to this flu/cold/thing.
Two years ago, there’s a shot of us two at Georgio’s, not sitting at a table but wandering about so I don’t know what we were doing then.
Before that, there are loads of images of sunrises over various parts of the island, including Nimborio at dawn, so I assume Neil was over there on a very early morning walk. Then, there’s a post from 1970… That’s what it says! Apparently, I released the book Deviant Desire last week in 1970. Well, probably not as I would only have been seven, and that book actually came out at the beginning of March 2019.
This thing’s all over the place, because it shows me the year before, 2018, in the UK (which might have been right), but then shows a picture of a house I used to live in in the 1970s with the date, 2013. I reckon it’s when the images were last modified. Anyway, the point is there is no point, just an excuse to show you some old photos.
I do have an up-to-date photo as well, taken yesterday evening as we were crossing the square, showing some of the local children at their games. This photo could have been taken 40 years ago in any other country where it was once safe for children to play out alone, like we used to do. It reminded me of the times people from the UK ask what time zone we are in here in Greece. I always say we’re two hours ahead and 40 years behind – in a good way.
