Saturday, 28 November 2015

Wednesday, November 25/2015



Jane picks us up after her painting class and takes us back for a "snack" - which turns out to be a stunning chilled seafood pie and a lovely, colourful salad. Then the olive picking. They're small and green and, apparently perfect for making oil. Four of us have the tree picked in under an hour and spend longer than that separating out leaves and twigs. Eight kilos worth of olives.


Dinner at Vlachos - first time this season, with Aylsa and Harry and also an Irish friend of J and B from marina days. Vlachos's usual, with starters that would have been enough for a whole meal. 

Arrive home and realise I must have dropped mobile at Vlachos. Call and speak to Constantinos, the owner's son. He sensibly asks for its phone number to call it. From there it gets weird. C calls back with the news that, within less than an hour the mobile has been taken from Vlachos, discarded in a cemetery, and taken to a police station. (Its small black leather case probably was initially taken for a money purse and then, when the contents were neither cash nor a recent and sophisticated phone, it was not simply tossed away but stamped on). The police return it to me at the Sunflower, noting, accurately, that it is broken, and saying, a little callously I feel, that it isn't expensive anyway. It clearly rang when called, and the battery - which must be about eight years old - lights it up, but nothing registers on the screen, which is cracked, as, actually, is the electronic board inside.