Decide it is finally time to get on with daily blog. No excuses and must do it daily.
First think of excuses why not to do it:
Daily musings are not very interesting: OK write about something in particular: outing yesterday to Arcadia with Branwen; outing recently to Delphi with Sophie; books read; thoughts thought.
Sitting in front of a computer is a waste of time on a nice day: true but have put on the washing and changed the sheets; taken Branwen to school; no washing up. Don’t want to do Board work on a holiday.
Writing one’s thoughts is worrying: true but you aren’t going to write those thoughts anyway in a public blog; you are going to keep up your terribly optimistic “look how I survive all these bad things” viewpoint for which you are famous. If necessary you can go away and find a book which legitimises the bad things and write about that.
Writing a blog is not real work: what is real work anyway: something you care about enough to do properly; is playing endless games of computer patience real work?(must write about that as well.
It’s too nice to sit indoors: move the laptop onto the balcony then and sit in the sun.
The screen is too dark without the power on: Well plug in the computer, all Greek balconies have power and water so you can live outside. You just have to move the yucca and unplug the adapter left behind from the Christmas Santa with a parachute.
It’s too nice to write without having a cup of coffee first. Get the coffee then and finish the strawberries (5 euros for a kilo from the market and NOT wooden, as from Crete not from wherever the wooden ones come from). Must have the coffee in the favourite mug. Must have a photo of the favourite mug.
Detour to get camera and take photo of new desk, plus mug, empty bowl of strawberries. Add view of little field seen from window plus car park with digger seen from balcony if you don’t screen it out.
Screen too dark to see spelling mistakes or to do anything about photos. Other people have shades but our landlady didn’t provide them and the first year we couldn’t believe that you could complain about the sun and the lack of shade. Now it’s too late. Hard to believe it is only the end of March. Already at 10.00 it’s getting too hot for a long sleeved T-shirt.
What else can I write about without moving from here? The Kumquat tree is down to one fruit. Bee and I ate the last 3 left from the winter the other day. (need photo of trees) Lemons are not getting ripe (or at least going yellow). Don’t know why. Bought the tree with about 3 big ones in December. Now we have 7 with various colours and sizes.
All my plants survived the winter, which wasn’t very severe. Only the bourgainvillea and the jasmine looked worse for wear but have started growing again. The umbrella tree with twisted stems (must look up what it really is called) is already getting scorched by the sun. Must find a shady place for it. Seems not to like the sun after being indoors all winter, even though it is in the same place as last year where it was happy. Some miscellaneous bulbs coming up. Can anyone remember what they have in their garden until it comes up again? Or must we all go round labelling everything? Seems rather German, though I can’t recall ever going to a German garden, so this must be just a judgement by stereotypes.
Well perhaps this is enough indulgence and I should go inside and do some serious work. And think about how to make the screen brighter so I can write outside. It puts me in a better mood anyway.
