Friday, January 9/2026

Courtesy Paphos Life

 Rains heavily during the night and not quite finished in the daytime, although the real weather violence is down to wind and not rain, with gale force winds intermittent throughout the day. Happily for us, though, what we get in the way of precipitation disappears pretty rapidly, while Storm Goretti has been battering Europe with wind and snow as homes lose power, schools are closed and rail and air travel are disrupted in Britain, Germany and France.

So presumably it is not the possibility of deadly storms that leads the Cyprus Mail to feature the slow but apparently sure progress of the development of crematoriums in the South. Both the Orthodox South and the Muslim North have majority religions with objections to cremation,  leaving those who would prefer to opt for it with unhappy alternatives like sending the relevant corpse to Bulgaria - a procedure not only expensive but apparently fraught with major red tape. Actually suspect that attempts to ship dead bodies, accompanied or otherwise, across the line from North to South will prove even more frustrating than moving live people across. 

Have heard rumours that there are facilities for cremating pets but this seems like material for black comedy at best.

Simplest and happiest solution would seem to be not to die.