Can that be true? No posts since 2020? Well, there have been many developments and events since. I won’t be able to report on them all. I trust that most readers will know anyway and if not you can ask.
Covid restrictions were dropped a while ago. It hovers, of course, but is under control. People do keep their distance and sanitize,
but otherwise, life has returned to what they call normal. No one even mentions it. Financially though, it is still felt hard.
We are cozy in the old house. We had to move quickly because the building
we were living in was sold. We have been
here for 2 years and it is home. It is
still a work in progress, of course, and will be for a long time yet. Painting,
refurbishing, mending, repairing, but functioning. The roof doesn’t leak, for which I am grateful. Some of the windows do, depending on how the
wind blows and how heavy the rain is, but not a real problem. The garden grows. The sea wall is strong and doing its
job.
People are travelling and we are having a good tourist
season. This year we seem to have young
families sailing with their young children.
The Bar and Restaurant are busy enough.
I have been selling some paintings from time to time. McDowell makes a wonderful coconut sauce.
My only complaint is the noise. We are in the center of town and beside the
bus terminal. It is never completely
quiet. There is always someone on the
street singing or ranting, or shouting, loud music, traffic, and dogs barking. Whatever noise ordinance there may be is not
enforced. Sometimes it is in the background but mostly it is just plain too loud with no letup. Right now the sea is surging and so it has
its own loud rolling sound.
Life is good. We are
both in reasonable health. The speed
with which time passes astonishes me.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose, So I will be writing Portsmouth vignettes…
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