Being Arty

This is the light playing through the window of my local cafe, A Little On The Side. It's probably my favourite cafe in the area; and wouldn't exist unless it had such dedicated followers because it's hard to find.

I'm heading up the country today; Henrietta is off in the bush and Sammy is going over to his mom's. None of them seem too interested in coming up the country - city kids, he sighed with exasperation.

But I'm looking forward to getting out of town; rebuilding; starting again for the umpteen millionth time. Have to do the radio show on the way out of town; meeting up with Graeme and going out from here. There's lots to do and not much time to do it in. I feel much more stable, coming back to normal. There isn't any poetry in the loft; but the days are stretching out away from disaster; and much of my life is still spent rebuilding from the past. Onwards and upwards.

THE BIGGER STORY:

Cruise captain blames currents for sinking

The captain of the sunken Sea Diamond cruise ship blamed currents off a Greek island for last week's accident, state-run television reported today.
Two French tourists have been missing since Thursday, when the ship struck rocks and eventually sank off the island of Santorini. All the other people on board - 1,154 passengers and 391 crew, according to operator Louis Cruise Lines - were rescued.
State-run NET television quoted from what it said were excerpts of the captain's deposition to a public prosecutor on the island of Naxos, blaming currents off the volcanic island for the accident.
"I felt the ship, which had been on a normal course, slip to the right because of sea currents," NET quoted him as saying. "I gave the order for a full turn left. But there was not enough time for the ship to respond." AP.