Thelassa! Thelassa!

Was what the greek runner allegedly cried, weeping tears of weariness and relief/despair as he reached the view of the sea on nearing the end of the first ever marathon. And thelassa thelassa was what me and Mum and Dad used to cry excitedly on catching a first glimpse of the sea at Torcross after the interminable journey (no such things as motorways then) from Croydon.
I tried it once or twice when me and Barney went to Greece. He didn't really get it :(
When we were in Greece I found that a lot of the signs were almost meaningful because of a well spent youth reading myths and legends and heroes and monsters (in the unexpurgated, old fashioned translations from the greek). when my fiddle teacher went to Italy, she found she could read a lot of the road signs because they were all musical terms.
Anyway. I keep wanting to cry thelassa thelassa!! meaning 'the sun the sun'!!! Wrong.
Greek for 'the sun!!!' anyone?*

Well it's out and doing lovely stuff in the woods where I went yesterday, clutching tripod and camera and assorted accessories. You know it's a miracle I ever get to take a picture the amount of fussing and faffing and dropping stuff I do!

On another hand (not full of bits and pieces of camera stuff) whenever I go away to look after ailing relatives I think "I must get a lap-top" Then I think "silly, it's only for a week or two and it's not as if it's going to happen all that often" Wrong again. A week or two is an aeon and it's happened at least five times in the last 3 years. OK. I must get a lap-top. I must remember that I must get a lap-top. Before sickness strikes the family again. With any luck it'll be like hanging the washing out makes the rain fall and leaving the washing unhung because it looks like rain makes the sun come out. And nipping into the shop across the road when you're totally fed up with waiting at the bus stop bringing the bus immediately (just as you reach the cashier).
Perhaps it's because I keep forgetting that I need a lap-top that the family get ill! It's my duty to get one asap to preserve my relatives from sickness and misfortune. Good, that's settled. Eldest, what sort of lap-top should I get? when are you next coming to visit? Bring ideas and suggestions and take your old Mum shopping :)

* would it be Helios? I think it might.
Helios! Helios! Time to go out with the camera :)