As I’ve been inside and under the covers/weather most of the week, there aren’t that many new photos to share today, but I’ve found what I have left of November. Hopefully I’ll be back to normal next week and may even venture out of the house. Meanwhile, have a good weekend and enjoy the photos.
Kalo mina! I’m not going to witter on for long today, I just have one piece of news to share with you. I have completed the screenplay, and can now let you know about it. It’s an adaptation of the book, ‘Girl Gone Greek’ by Rebecca Hall.
The book is Rebecca’s true account of studying to be a TEFL teacher and then coming to Greece for a year to teach. It’s funny, insightful, tells you a lot about Greece and its culture and has one or two… Well, I’m not going to tell you too much. You can pick up a copy of the book, or its Kindle version, through this link: Girl Gone Greek
I tried to keep the screenplay as close to the book as possible but, as usual, there is more time in a book than there is in a film. Rebecca is happy with the work and tells me that it encapsulates all that the book is about. It shows, through her humorous time spent in Greece, that the main character grows as a person and how the country and its people helped her realise her potential – and Greece’s potential – to shape those around her.
I hope to have an interview with Rebecca on the blog in due course.
Tuesday was Miss DJ’s birthday – happy birthday again – and there was a gathering in the square for coffee (still a euphemism) and cake, which the birthday lady herself provided, along with sandwiches. We were lucky with the weather, there was cloud every now and then, but otherwise, it was warm in the sun, as long as you were sitting in the right place. As you can see, it was quite a gathering.
Later, we finished off inside as the sun went behind the houses as it does at this time of year and made it home before the rain started. Yes, it rained again, and there was thunder, but nothing as mad as we have had of late. The sterna is nicely full of water now, and the plants are well watered. Wednesday started early for me, five o’clock, as I couldn’t sleep thanks to the sweating sickness. Well, that’s what it might have been called hundreds of years ago – I call it a cold, and I was cold. I got up after a few fruitless hours of waking up wet and freezing and got myself dry and dressed. (Too many ‘gots’ in that sentence, but I really couldn’t be bothered to think today.)
I couldn’t work out why so many cars were passing the house at that time of day/night until I remembered it was Wednesday, and the Blue Star comes in early. I saw it arrive just after six in the morning by which time I was awake and sneezing well, clearing my tubes of half a gallon of muck. Question: where does it all come from? Anyway, I have struggled through the morning up until now and should be fine by tomorrow, he says. Now, back to the hot lemon and comfort food.
Sorry, today’s photos are just (through the) window views; I’m not moving very far from home at the moment. We are sharing this cold, you see. Neil started it off, and I followed one day behind. So, on Monday when he was sofa ridden and wailing like sneezing banshee, I was fit enough to do the chores, go to Yialos and back and so on. Yesterday, it was the other way around, and I stayed home. Mind you so did Neil but then we didn’t need to go out.
Actually, we do, or we did, as I am writing this yesterday… Usual thing; write posts one day and post them the next, so I don’t have to think of something to write at 5.30 in the morning like I used to. Anyway, we are going out later today (yesterday) because it’s Miss DJ’s birthday and we’re meeting for coffee (euphemism) and cake in the square, either at Rainbow or Lefteris’. Possibly Lefteris’ because Yianni Rainbow hasn’t been open in the mornings of late, but Yianni Lefteris has – I know, it gets confusing, stay with it.
There’s that to look forward to and the good-boys coming for tea on Friday, and hopefully some better weather. Not complaining, the sternas, plants, reservoirs and muddy paths need it and it’s not been as bad as a few weeks ago. It’s warm too. It was 14 degrees at six the other morning and then 18 during the day. As you can see from the photos, one moment it’s clear and bright and the next it’s cloudy and dark. All adds to the ‘what’s going to happen next?’ feel of a Symi winter.
Finally quick note: the idea to raise money through the sales of Symi, Stuff & Nonsense and the other Symi books in my collection, is going well. I hope to meet with one of the teachers soon to find out exactly what they need, and then, after Christmas, I can set about buying them. All of my Symi books (including Jason and the Sargonauts, which is a comedy ‘Dan Brown’ set on Symi now and over 100 years ago). You can find all the titles here.
A bit sniffley today; a cold has landed in the house. That will teach me to eat satsumas thinking they are good for me. Joking. It’s not quite at man flu alert level yet, still on a yellow alert but will let you now when we need rescue parcels and so on. Still working, Neil’s in his room next door and it sounds like a farmyard. Hey ho! A few photos and then back to the overdramatic suffering sounds and ‘Do I really have to go to Yialos?’ Answer; yes: parcels waiting and need money. All we need in the village is an ATM, post office and a place for the ferry to dock and I’d never have to go down town.
Some photos of my summer to cheer us up.
