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Cheek
Μαγουλιά ...from the village website for Ano KorakianaΨαρόσουπα με λαχανικά «σβησμένα» με κρασί και «μαγουλιά» λυθρινιού, συνοδευόμενη από άσπρο κρασί και το Τριώδιο ακόμη δεν άρχισε…Στην τηλεόραση, τα...
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves..."
'If SYRIZA survive the tough beginning, a looming change in European attitudes to austerity politics in Europe might vindicate their struggle.' SYRIZA are inexperienced in government and up against...
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Winter work
Simon in Greece with a Mayday wreath; stepfather Jack Hargreaves in his shed in Dorset with a film from Out of Town In the last three years we've worked on the production of two commercially available...
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My plot
'Above all remember; allotment gardening is fun, it's healthy and it's a great way to meet people. So the most important thing is to enjoy your allotment.' Advice from the Allotments Section at...
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Εμπρός γκρεμός και πίσω ρέμα.
In Ano Korakiana, and every village across the land, edges of roads and steps and paths are being whitewashed, verges tidied, surfaces swept as Easter comes closer. Fortis and his son Lefteris set to...
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Cheek
Μαγουλιά ...from the village website for Ano KorakianaΨαρόσουπα με λαχανικά «σβησμένα» με κρασί και «μαγουλιά» λυθρινιού, συνοδευόμενη από άσπρο κρασί και το Τριώδιο ακόμη δεν άρχισε…Στην τηλεόραση, τα...
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves..."
'If SYRIZA survive the tough beginning, a looming change in European attitudes to austerity politics in Europe might vindicate their struggle.' SYRIZA are inexperienced in government and up against...
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Winter work
Simon in Greece with a Mayday wreath; stepfather Jack Hargreaves in his shed in Dorset with a film from Out of Town In the last three years we've worked on the production of two commercially available...
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My plot
'Above all remember; allotment gardening is fun, it's healthy and it's a great way to meet people. So the most important thing is to enjoy your allotment.' Advice from the Allotments Section at...
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'Though inland far we be...'
My grandson and I have been working the allotment"Here’s a thing, Oliver. Suppose I get this allotment producing a regular supply of vegetables. Suppose I sort out my confusion about whether this is a...
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Small works
Clunk! From downstairs Lin calls “What have you done now?”“We have a problem” The stove, just refilled with wood, was keeping us warm. The hollow half-cone cast iron moulding that linked it to the...
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A stone shoe
The light behind the curtains suggests another sunny day, with reservations. Enough to do laundry. Once the machine is rumbling reassuringly, the soaked mix tossing in the froth, I’ve emptied the...
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'A ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas'
Familiar dreams of inadequacy – unprepared notes just before a lecture, no papers to explain myself to an arresting authority, a journey started but vital luggage gone missing...They are born on...
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My plot
'Above all remember; allotment gardening is fun, it's healthy and it's a great way to meet people. So the most important thing is to enjoy your allotment.' Advice from the Allotments Section at...
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'Though inland far we be...'
My grandson and I have been working the allotment"Here’s a thing, Oliver. Suppose I get this allotment producing a regular supply of vegetables. Suppose I sort out my confusion about whether this is a...
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The boat
Guy's text from GB the other evening *** **** "I want a boat!” said Oliver“You mean you’d like a boat”“Yes! A boat!”“Make him a boat, grandpa” says Amy I glued and screwed together two pieces of...
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Sailing to Pirate Island
It would be a fabled island. Guy, Dave, Oliver and I set out in Summersong from her little home port of Ipsos; motoring without wind from the aquamarine shallows into the deeper blue of the Kerkyra...
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"Back to reality"
"Oliver! To make castles you must add water to your sand" I mistook the old bloke with a flat cap, a fag in his mouth, shuffling by my borrowed chair in the airport car park, for a local."Kalimira""Are...
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Tilth
“I’ve just had a woman complain my compost is full of worms! She was all the way down towards Benitses. Asked me all sorts of details about the compost and then ordered one bag. I delivered it. Next...
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An hour
The whole job – tidying up the piece of wood from the shed; cleaning up three old coat hooks; centring and spacing them and fixing them to the wall in Amy’s bedroom, took an hour. Those brash and...
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