Lock down Lily’s photo shoot

Well, crazy times are with us.

The Covid 19 virus is raging across the globe and the whole world as gone into shutdown mode in an attempt to flatten the curve of infection.

In Greece that equates to no unnecessary travel except for only 6 possible reasons, the most pertinent for us are visiting the bank (ATM), Supermarket shopping or visiting the Pharmacy / Vet if required. You are required to send an SMS to a central number with your name, address, reason, date & time and you receive a txt message reply authorizing that particular outing. There are fines for those caught not complying. The system unfortunately doesn’t work on non Greek phones. We have to take a handwritten chit with the same information. As yet we have not been stopped.

I have to say Mr Mitsokatis has acted very quickly and so far it appears to be reaping benefits.

For us and everyone else that means finding ways of passing the days. I have been messing about with my camera and today Lily posed about on the scooter for a photo shoot.

We (that is Louise) takes her out on the lead as we are concerned about letting her roam free for two reasons. One, there are a group of cats (that we feed & house!) who see this as their territory and Two, although it is deathly quiet on the road outside, even before the lockdown, I found two dead cats with no trauma on separate occasions – so they may have been poisoned. She will just have to content herself until we get back to the marina. She’s not bad if we are both in the house but if one of us goes out she creates a bit, especially if it’s Louise.