SERENITY NOW

  16th May 2020 (Crete) It’s a couple of weeks since the last entry... not much has changed. Still stuck in Ag Nik marina, still stuck on 35 pressups... I did go up to 40, but couldn’t quite make the required 45 to keep me on track for the 51 needed on the 24th. (Edit: did manage 51 on my birthday)  I’ve compensated by swimming - the heat having gone through the roof the last few days (32 degrees at 9am today). It’s a nice swim : jump in off A pontoon, swim around the 3 breakwaters and back and get out at the beach. I’m yet to see the team of barracudas who’ve been terrorising the bait fish around the marina. Lockdown is easing, if not by law, at least by people’s attitude to it here on the island - we’re supposedly Covid-free, so until the tourists begin again, this is the safest we’re likely to be. We’ve had a couple of get togethers at the little BBQ area - affectionately known as the crematorium. One was to celebrate George Ratter’s completion of his Proclaimers ...

  1st May 2020 (Crete) The weather is now heating up a bit (creeping out of the defined 'comfort zone' on the barometer), and we’ve had the winter covers off for the last few days.  Days for me now follow a rough regime: we’ve swapped doors to enter our forward cabin, so I, instead of Chez, now see the light of dawn coming through the companionway doors. The upshot of this is that I’m rising slightly earlier than previously - don’t get excited, this just means the hour hand on the clock is possibly still pointing at single figures when I put the kettle on. I’ve then been going on a quick stomp around the marina wall. ced and great for fast walking (as well as  induced dancing no doubt).  Half way through the walk, at the far end of the marina wall, I drop and pump out 35 press ups. I’m working up to be able to do 51 on my birthday, a feat which I believe my dad used to be able to do for some years (will check with the other siblings to find out exactly how long th...