Wednesday, March 10/2010

The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulis has been discovered covered with a thin layer of earth in a grave (already occupied as nearly as one can make out - where are the lurid tabloids when a story cries out for gory details?) in a Nicosia cemetery other than the one from which it disappeared. And arrests have been made of two cypriots (well, one was already in jail, for murder no less - the infamous "Al Capone of previous police humiliation) and a man of Indian nationality. It appears the Indian was paid only €200, much less than he says he was promised, to go back to India and start a new life. He'll undoubtedly be deported to India after prison (I'm inappropriately presuming conviction) but the new life he'd wanted won't be quite the same.



A warm day. The western end of the Mediterranean is still subject to snowstorms - in Spain and the south of France - but the eastern end has been unseasonably warm, with temperatures in Tel Aviv over 30 and ours reliably in the 20's, in part thanks to a blanketing of Saharan dust.



We're definitely in the clear now with regard to the flight on Monday. British Airways are still negotiating with the union representing cabin crew, but regardless of the outcome they can't strike before our flight as they must give seven days notice. So Monday night will see us in London. Jenny says she was at Hampton Court on the weekend and the crocuses are up but the daffodils are late this year.