The new autobiographical memoir ‘Moving Islands’ is now ‘wrapped,’ in that the Kindle version’s on sale through Amazon and the paperback’s artwork, editing and proofing is now well under way. My part in the whole thing is done and dusted. Above is an image of the full cover, front and back, of the forthcoming paperback. If you click on it you’ll go straight to the Amazon page, if you’re happy to buy the Kindle version now. When it becomes available some time in the new year, the paperback will be on the same link, of course.

The work on the book is ‘a wrap’ but there was also a need for a different kind of wrap when we went out this morning. It’s the first cold day of this winter, with the midday temperature having been a very cool 15ºC, which won’t last, as it’s due to warm up again from tomorrow, but today’s conditions, with very British-looking cloudy skies, meant that we didn’t order iced coffees, but rather hot filter coffee, and we sat with a few friends indoors, a rare occurrence, even in winter.

As I type this at around 5.15 pm, it’s raining outside and so I thought I’d just post a bunch of photos from the past week or ten days to cheer myself up, as well as you! To be fair though, we love the rain and it’s really much needed after a very dry autumn so far. It actually makes it cozy to sit indoors with a hot drink, the heating on low and read and write in peace and quiet. The day before yesterday, the lantana in the upper garden was teeming with Painted Lady butterflies, and yesterday we treated ourselves to a new plant for one of the the corners up there, the kind that one might call ‘architectural.’ Its Greek name is Strelitsia Nicolai, and it’s in the Bird of Paradise family, although this one doesn’t flower, but is an evergreen and grows up to two metres tall. It looks a lot like a banana too, I think. If you click the link above you’ll see an image on that website, although the one we bought is much fuller and more developed than that. It took a bit of doing to get it into the car, I can tell you.

Anyway, to the photos…

That lot above were taken in and around the harbour on Tuesday December 5th at around 10.30-11.00am. Yvonne was actually taking a swim while I wandered off to shoot these.

Above, the lantana I was talking about, although that’s a swallowtail from October 26th.

Above, how the town beach looks now. I rather like it, looks like a desert island from some angles, doesn’t it? Below is a sign that’s on the wall in one of our favourite coffee shops in the town, one that’s actually in a small square and not on the waterfront. It’s the Cup Café, and I agree with the sentiment. I’m not so impressed with the selection of photos on their Facebook page. I’ll take some myself some time and post them here.

Finally, here’s me folks, on the seafront yesterday at around midday…

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