Spring has arrived? Full sun all day. Warm and only the lightest of breezes. Lazy choice of activities. Could wash clothes, first choice of most of the women on the local weather page. But J repairs the drying rack, damaged in a collision with a cement wall on the terrace on one of the high wind days, so maybe tomorrow, also to be blessed with many suns ☀️☀️☀️ according to one of the weather forecast apps.
This leaves us sitting with a Cyprus brandy on the end of the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. Lovely deep blue and you can just see Türkiye on the far side. Aided by the fact that the south coast is mountainous, so there is something to spot on a clear day.
Terrace is a lovely place for reading aloud and we’re nearly finished John Simpson’s Unreliable Sources, having abandoned it temporarily for Dalrymple’s more compelling City of Djinns. Simpson is knowledgeable and sections are quite interesting but it is very poorly edited, and some of the editing should have included cutting it by at least a third. Actually it looks as though what he did was to farm out sections of the 20th century to a number of research assistants and allow their varying industriousness to determine the length of the different sections. A disappointment for anyone who enjoyed his memoirs and not a keeper but not sorry we stuck with it.
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