Month: August 2016

  • Today’s highlights included:

    Usual morning activities with fishermen appearing not to catch much from the boat just off the end of the promontory. Supermarket where Georgia on the till had a headache, caused, she expected by the stress of her daughter leaving to go to uni or whatever. Or maybe it was just the weather or the moon…

  • No wind tonight

    And the sun has already set so I reckon it will be dark by 20:30. More packages arrived from China earlier and Maria brought them down to me. I was on the phone to Louise, who is not at EG anymore, but working from home. Over the next few days I will be setting them…

  • Visit from Georgia

    Georgia came to see me earlier to say that her mother is likely to be in Chania hospital for some time, following extensive surgery. From Georgia’s description, the surgery was long and complicated. Remember that Georgia only speaks Greek, so there may be some ‘loss’ in translation. In any event, it appears to have affected…

  • The Entente Cordiale, (and all that).

    A while ago, I copied a whole disk of films from another camping visitor who offered me their collection, not the recent Germans. I looked through the collection, briefly, at the time, to see films going back to the 60s. Last night I watched a 60s film about the ‘Algerian War’ which lead to independence.…