I watched an interesting episode of the WWII drama Secret Army which depicts the activities of the Resistance attempting to return RAF fliers via Spain to England. The local Gestapo decide to use a downed Wellington in which all crew members were killed to attempt to infiltrate the Lifeline Pipeline with a young Gestapo officer, Ernst Stoller. Stoller, who was brought up in England, poses as an injured airman and gets picked up by members of the Resistance. . .

Stoller becomes emotionally involved with Monique who is going through an exceptionally difficult time in her relationship with Albert. She decides to confide some aspects of her life with Stoller. When Monique returns to the café much later, she learns that an extra crewman, unaccounted for at the crash scene, has been found dead in woodland and that information given by Stoller does not tally with that recently received from London. The conclusion is that Stoller is an infiltrator and will need to be eliminated.

Monique brings Stoller to a deserted location where she hands him over to Albert who shoots him. It was interesting to look at things from the other side for a change.

My workout from the Evening Walk ran on until the early hours of the morning so I now have a phoney award for hiking. My watch had put itself into lockdown so was showing just the time in basic form. Fido kindly reminded me of this when I got up to let him and Isabella out for a brisk pee. I used the opportunity to put my watch on the charger ready for the morning.

The sky was beginning to lighten to the east as we crossed the field towards the beach and head towards the Promontory. It was another clear, cool and calm morning with the stronger starts still visible.

We completed out Promontory lap and headed up towards Plakaki in the semi-obscurity. I looked up to discover that our ranks had been swelled by a large and smaller dog who were making their acquaintances with some of the pack. The others soon arrived so I was interested to see how the meeting would turn out. With only the slightest intervention by me, the meeting progressed amicably with each going their separate ways.

We carried on to Plakaki and back to the Promontory for a final circuit which took in some of the rockier terrain before crossing the rocks and back over the field for breakfast. Charlie was lagging behind but soon caught up due to the clatter of food bowls and biscuits.

Isabella and I went into the van where Luis was already stretched out on the bench. I fed Isabella then got on with my breakfast and the Doggy Dinners. I seem to have run out of most things Doggy Dinner so must do a shop either Friday or Saturday as Sunday is the next DD day.

The day was warm but not as warm as the two previous ones due to a chilly wind which began to get up during the Early Walk. The only activity in the camping was Tony using the Ferrari to collect up the remains of the wood left by the tree technicians. Presumably, this will be converted to firewood in due course.

There were a number of support calls which all seemed to come at once, a little like London Buses. Louise and I amused ourselves by moving files around on the EG Sharepoint server. The dogs were a little distracted by the antics of Xanthippos in the field. He is now working nearer to the compound and was flitting around at one point with a guy who’d brought his own dog. I was busy, and didn’t care anyway, so left the dogs to bark. Ignoring Xanthippos is the quickest way to annoy him. He is getting on with his greenery disposal slowly but surely.

I finished off the DDs in between support activities as well as preparing doggy rice and something for myself later. The temperature dropped and the wind increased.

There was one pickup on the beach as we left for the Evening Walk. It had left when we returned. The smouldering remains of the latest fire was in evidence as we crossed the field.

There has been an increase in virus-related activity, particularly in Attica, so the authorities are planning to further strengthen the lockdown. This lockdown is coming up for it’s third month in few days!