Well here we are, the good lady and I, in our spiritual home, in the quiet heat of Crete. It is as the locals will say, poli zesty (very hot) but that is one of the main attractions! As I write, we are relaxing on sun beds in a new spot we have discovered. Umbrellas , sun beds, sea and very importantly a bar! One needs to break, with ones normal routine and after a beginning of a year that had sadness and strain, it is a refreshing change. Having been coming to this island for some long years, we have many friends with whom we catch up and give and get all the news and reports on our lives! Births ,deaths, aches, pains, children, marriages, divorces and the minutiae of every day life. It is my experience, that people are much the same wherever you go, trying to live their lives the best way they can, doing their best to care for families and working to ensure they earn enough. It is why I get so disappointed, that we so often accentuate our differences and not our our similarities. I am deliberately going to avoid any reference to politics in this piece, damn I just did!
I don't want to come over all lovey dovey but generally people are mostly pleasant, it always saddens me that there is a significant minority who seem unable , unwilling or incapable of realising that continually causing hurt will never be an answer! It is a theme I have touched upon many times and will no doubt come back to. There are enough problems on this planet without the extra burden of fanatics who want to destroy!
Well old Guesty went off on one again but you can never express those sentiments too often.
I must admit that this old boy is suffering from a few ailments at present that have slowed me down (literally) and Lady Thorn is rightly going to sort me out we we return. As one ages, it is encumbent, upon us to remain fit and I have been lacking in this, in recent times, this has to change!
We are here for a little while yet, so there may further reports, ahah warm sun, bye for now!
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