I am writing this to the sound of a JCB equipped with a large rock breaking tool, bashing away at some of the boulders on the site just up from me. Not the new greenhouse site as I suggested yesterday, but the plot where Fence Man was measuring and putting up reinforcing rods. There has been JCB activity on the site, pulling up shrubs and bushes as well as levelling the ground. I have not, as yet, been able to work out what might be going to happen on that plot.
The ship, which is not the Amina H, was no longer moored in the bay when we went for our evening walk yesterday. In fact, I heard it leaving as I could make out the sound of the motors starting up and running.
I have a new neighbour in the form of a Greek guy and his girlfriend who arrived yesterday afternoon. He was communing with Dave and seems to like him very much. He was quick to show me the picture of his dog which is currently staying in Athens with his mother. It seems that people either care nothing for dogs or are barmy about them.
Can you hear the sound of that machine in the background? No chance of any scheduled breaks or noise abatement here!
I had an involved conversation with the lady that cleans, about how I have four dogs. It had to be in Greek as she has only a few words of English picked up from her daughters’ school books. She works very hard and says she will continue until the end of September but will be starting back at the school where she cleans when the new term begins.
The tools and odds and ends I tidied up in the store room yesterday were scattered around in the entrance again this morning so I put them back into the bucket I had put them in so that we all don’t have to keep stepping over them each time we come in and out. I heard the Grammeno Ferrari moving about late last night just as I was going to bed. Yesterday it was full of pretty unpleasant rubbish which had been sitting there all day in the sun whereas today it is empty. I just hope the dustmen have been today or the external bins in the street are going to be overflowing. It seems that the local authority are cutting back on rubbish collection as I’ve seen less of the garbage trucks recently.
Watching an episode of ER last night, where the young, black, junior doctor is having a bad time: first with his girlfriend, then with Dr Benton telling him off and Dr Carter not backing him up. I remembered that something bad happened which was confirmed when a casualty was brought in by ambulance having fallen/jumped in front of an L Train. They paged the junior doctor to call him into the ER only to have the victim’s pager go off…
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