I had to give them time to get started.Gina was well on her way to picking up so I wandered over to the three of them."Sorry everyone I've got to clos...e up for the night" Just one more drink" asked Gina."Nah sorry" I said "But you can nick upstairs because we are having a few on the balcony"."Thanks mate" said one of the blokes "This is Michael, or Mick and I'm Pete'"G'day" I said shaking hands.We had a bit of idle chatter and I sent them packing upstairs with some more piss. I was sure that. None of that, though, told me when I was. The fact was that everybody spoke some version of Byzantine Greek. That meant that the time was somewhere after the founding of the Byzantine Empire. From what the local people told me, the Mongols had not yet invaded, so I figured that we were living within a very long span of years, 500-900 AD, and I could not pin it down very close. Oh, well, it was not intrinsically important, so I didn't worry too much about it.My immediate problems centered around. "I think you should probably leave. OK?"Greg's words were tenuous and his breathing hurried. I was certain thatthey would be the equivalent of a slingshot being fired at a cementwall. However, the wall relented, not crumbling, but merely ceded theway. Mrs. Feinstein turned slowly, making me think we had suddenlytumbled into a universe where everything moved in slow motion."Very well, it is clear who has the run of this place. I will rememberthat the next time your daughter disturbs the. So I have to stop what I'm doing and untangle this mess and then it's time for my nails and I can't decide for the life of me what color polish to wear today. "Now you wouldn't think that this would be a big deal, would you? Time was, nail polish meant red and that was that. But that was before. Now I have almost a whole box full of the stuff and there's bottles in there I haven't used in a dog's age but it's still there and now I've got to match the color to what I'm wearing and what I'm doing.