Greece

Just back from ten days in Greece. Visited Athens, and two islands of Santorini and Mykonos. Luckily we avoided the farce known as the Eurovision song contest, is Armenia in Europe ? Athens was much as I expected, the Acroplis was superb, albeit slightly reduced in sanctified awe by the steel scaffolding and cranes plastered all over the site. Neverthe less you can still grasp the sheer size of the site and imagine the shuddering scale at its grand height. Santorini is a small town clinging to the fractured shattered remains of a huge cataclysmic volcanic eruption ranking two on the scale of eruptions. The remains are called the caldera, and the collapsed crater must be five miles across. There is a baby volcano in the middle slowly rebuilding itself with lava flow upon lava flow, it seems quite sinister that one day in millenia to come the whole frightening saga may repeat itself all over again. Tsunamis rushing across the sea to wash over the north African coast, earthquakes across asia minor and enormous clouds of ash blown around the globe for decades. Mykonos is a fascinating town, twisted streets turn and melt into another right angled tiny streets slowly merging into white walled maze. It has a very warm feeling about the place, the sense of commercialisation is quite obvious, but above each shop local people sit on steps gossiping and passing the time of day. All in all, peaceful and restful place .

Utterly shi** day at work exacerbated by the sheer idiocy of those claiming to be management. Incompetent, arrogant, half witted small minds who have eviscerated a good group on the altar of self promotion and personnal gain. Anyway, no rowing tonight so packed for our Greek hols next week and sipping some lovely red out on the patio. Cats scarred by the noise neighbours chickens made early this morning, and wouldnt go out, poor wee darlings. Theatre tommorrow so be back over the weekend.

Today at Victoria

Today at Victoria tube stn whilst transiting through the sprawling metropolis I heard a lovely sound. A man was playing the accordion ala a squeeze box. Very Parisian, as we all came up the escalotor we were transported to the Metro, it was all small coffee, pungent cigarettes, chic women, indifferent waiters wearing stained clothes and noisy cars. Coming the other way was a violin playing mozart. Magical

Stuff

Just done my first online tax return and it was relatively straight forward. Must be a good thing and I think I'm due some money back from that nice Mr Brown. For some reason the blog I compiled yesterday has not been published, so I'm going to publish this one as a test run.

Here goes.

Missed me ? Ah how sweet. Pinged lower back muscle whilst diving off the wardrobe and therefore have'nt been rowing or ergoing all week. We did hours and hours in our garden this weekend and it looks immaculate, what ever happened to the Immaculate Fools ? Perennial plants in abundance and fruit trees glistening with health. Ladybirds trawled and pressed into service on anto aphid duties with orders to seek and destroy with extreme prejudice. Very Carig Fox and certainly not George Smiley. George would've slowly plodded along Bywater Street and polished his glasses on his tie, and let everyone else come to the same conclusion he came to weeks ago. Wonder if Le Carre ever read Flashman novels when he was a boy? Anyway, all ready for last few days at work until we slipped away to Greece. Marvellous.

Missed me ? Ah how sweet. Pinged lower back muscle whilst diving off the wardrobe and therefore have'nt been rowing or ergoing all week. We did hours and hours in our garden this weekend and it looks immaculate, what ever happened to the Immaculate Fools ? Perennial plants in abundance and fruit trees glistening with health. Ladybirds trawled and pressed into service on anto aphid duties with orders to seek and destroy with extreme prejudice. Very Carig Fox and certainly not George Smiley. George would've slowly plodded along Bywater Street and polished his glasses on his tie, and let everyone else come to the same conclusion he came to weeks ago. Wonder if Le Carre ever read Flashman novels when he was a boy? Anyway, all ready for last few days at work until we slipped away to Greece. Marvellous.