It’s still all about the sea. Yesterday, a shot of the flooded part of the harbour, today, the Blue Star Patmos (below). This’ll be old news to Facebook fanatics, but yesterday, the Patmos bumped a harbour wall while trying to land at Kastellorizo in a force six wind. Some of the translations refer to the bump as ‘ran aground’, which it didn’t. The images are of a scrape near the rear end, rather than the thing washed up and listing on a deserted beach. As far as I can make out, it remained unberthed while the authorities did whatever they had to do to make sure passengers were safe. That must have been frustrating; being stuck only a few meters from your destination and unable to get off. The same happens now and then in Rhodes, when we hear of the boats sheltering up near the airport, when they should have been in Akandia, but the weather turned.
The knock-on effect of this slight bump is that the Patmos had to change its timetable slightly. There is information on the Blue Star Ferries website. (It appears to be back to normal on Friday.)
Away from the sea and back on reasonably dry land, I’m wrestling with the settings of my new phone. You may know what it’s like when you have had a phone (or other device) for some time, and you’re used to how it all works. You’ve spent half a year getting the settings just right, and then, the struggle is forgotten as you enjoy life with your new whatever. Then, the time comes to change it, lose it, stamp on it, whatever you do when you’ve had enough with the thing, and you go for a new one. Okay, it’s easy enough these days to swap the contents across, and the apps and all that, but then comes the fine detail. For example, currently, only the photos I take on my phone get sent to my gallery, and from there, to the cloud storage. Photos sent in from apps, like the ones Neil takes and sends on via WhatsApp, don’t get saved to the gallery, but elsewhere. That means, they’re not automatically sent up to the cloud, so when I bumble my way in here at 5.30 in the morning to write this kind of gibberish, I can’t easily download them and put them on the blog. I have to fiddle with the phone to send the image he’s sent me from one app to another, then to another, thence, if I am lucky, up to the cloud, then down again and up to the website. (Or I have to go searching for that lead I know I have, so I can physically connect phone and PC, and I know I put it somewhere…)
Still working on that fine tuning, but if that’s all I have to fuss about today, I’ll be quite happy.
I put up a photo of my writing desk yesterday, and here’s another of the room since we moved the piano in here. I have cut off the top of the curtains (in the shot) because I am still waiting for the right hooks, and at the moment, it looks like something from the set of Phantom, only with less swag. Have a good day.
