2 August 2025

Kaliméra kósme.

Good morning world.

I was up at 7:30 am (GMT+2).

It's supposedly another hot one.

Yesterday, we did a bit of running around on the scooter - just to test it out.

We had a run across the coastal path from Agia Triada to the Famagusta Sailing Club and then up to the Lionheart bar where a had a couple of Espresso's and Julie her frappe's.

We also had two sessions at the beach bar on Ayia Triada beach, whereby on the second visit, around 7:00 pm - we fed all the 12 feral cats around the fisherman's church.

We did the same the day before - that was after I had taken the bolt croppers out of the boot of the FTO to break the padlock on the water tap.

I cannot see defenceless animals die of thirst. 

We went into the church afterwards and Julie lit a candle, did a prayer, and dropped some money in the tin.

Julie's prayers, as always - were for the family.

Mine were for the country.

The politicians that have been in power for the last 15 years have purposely lied and deceived us, and our children are getting hurt.

It has to stop.

In Series 1 of The A's you will see Gaynor and her crowd in the Hammersmith Vaults often get very politically irate - and refer to the man running London, with its surging knife crime and rape, as the Idiot King.

Gaynor has socialist aspirations all aimed at the greater good, hence her career path of being a doctor - however, she is certainly no Socialist.

And when she finds out that Mason has been tasked by a group, financed by Investment Banker Simeon Cartier-Bloem to help push its candidate - former Brentford MP, Anthony Percy, to displace the Idiot King, she is all for it... and even has some of her own ideas.

Some brilliant; some not so.

She soon realises that politics can be a very dirty game and one of her Ace cards is the friendship she has formed with Christie Gotleib - the wife of Jacob.

The animation opposite is of her and Christie.

I wrote this up a few years ago and I still can't believe how well I read those political tea leaves..

If you check out Gaynor's hairstyle, in the animation - that is Vidal Sassoon (and very Nancy Kwan).

In the very first episode her mum, Maureen and sister, Angie, urge her to get her hair properly styled.

She does, and when Angie sees it, she has a fit as she went to one of the most expensive places in West London and came back with what you see.

"She paid HOW MUCH?" bemoans the elder sister.

Day 212

Christie Gotleib and Gaynor Mellor

Rendered at 2160p 4k, 16:9 Widescreen

(Above) A 34 second animation of Christie Gotleib and Gaynor Mellor.

I created this using four frames and several transitions from an image that I created with Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Music: I Am I Feel by Alisha's Attic.

The first time they met was during the Christmas period of 2022.

Gaynor had no idea who she was.

Christie, however - had known who Gaynor was since the first day she ever spoke with Mason Green.

Why is that?

1 August 2025

Kaliméra.

I was up at 7:30 am (GMT+2).

It's hot. Again.

I did quite a bit of work on The A's yesterday and I'm hoping to do the same again today.

I finally managed to put the fourth episode of the second series (Episode 16 - Desk Wanker) to bed.

It has been an awkward one as the guts of it was originally written-up quite a while ago when I was throwing around some ideas.

As the story continually morphs things change - especially in the future episodes and Episode 16 was a case in point.

Mason Green is the focal point of The A's, but it is the people who are around him that are the story. 

In this episode, lots of things are revealed about who and what he is. As I've said, this is a good episode as he temporarily moves into an environment where a lot of people get close to him.

Jenny's constant question of why her dad didn't come after them and bring them home is also addressed, the most concise reasoning coming from Maureen Mellor.

In the previous episode - Episode 15 - The Ghost of Jenny Deal, there is a nice scene where Mason is picking things up from his old flat and where he has a conversation with his gran - Rochana (Ana) Reung, and one where Ana mentions Maureen's happiness.

"I see Maureen quite a bit and I can't say that I've not noticed a change in your favourite mother-in-law's demeanour," she said.

(Another part, and further on in the same scene)

"Gaynor's said nothing, gran," said Mason

"Gaynor saying nothing isn't something that I ever recall, my love," Ana replies, before becoming inquisitive. "How are you two getting on, anyway?"

"Okay."

"The boy whose heart she broke and who, when he became a man, went and rescued her from the evil prince and brought her back home and everything is what - just okay?"

"You've been watching too many old films," Mason tells his gran.

"I don't think I have."

"And Gaynor never broke my heart."

"Mmm... It must have been that other grandson I had then," said his gran.

There's a pause as Mason looks through the contents of the box

"You see anything of her - Gaynor?" Mason inquires.

"The day Gaynor comes knocking at my door, is the day I become worried," said his gran.

The first animation for August 2025 is one of Ana and her great granddaughter, Jenny Mellor.

On Sunday mornings in Series 2, Ana takes Jenny to Taekwondo, and it is a time where jenny gets to know more and more about who her family are... and also... about the Dreaded Mr Wong.

"The dreaded Mr Wong?" whispered Jenny, in an exaggerated tone. "Who's the dreaded Mr Wong."

Day 211

(Great) Granny Ana and Jenny Mellor

Rendered at 2160p 4k, 16:9 Widescreen

(Above) A 37 second animation of Rochana Reung (Granny Ana) and her great granddaughter, Jenny Mellor.

I created this from four frames with several transitions and from an image that I created with Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Music: Sunday Will Never Be The Same by Spanky and Our Gang.

I may have said before, but Ana is originally from Laos and came over to the UK when she was 16 years old.

She owns a florists shop in the fictitious Little Brittany area of Hammersmith and is chairperson of the West London and South Thames Chamber of Commerce.

In short, she is a very well connected lady and a great conversationalist...