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The music...
The music that suffuses Corfu and especially beloved Ano Korakiana with its sounds of practise in the quiet of the day. Takis Savvani, Τάκης Σαββανής, writes on the village website:Το παλιό αρμόνιο...
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Linking 'Out of Town' films and tapes
Jack with Bess, filmed by Stan I've collected all Out of Town commentary tapes from the lock-up and about 50 cans of 16mm Out of Town film. I'm going to see if I can match one tape to one film. P &...
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Plot 14 - a sheep or a goat?
Another row of spuds, beans, a marrow and spinach on Plot 14 My allotment is surrounded by unworked plots. Imran took over plot 13, west of mine, in May 2012. After a few day's enthusiastic work he...
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Afterwards
Writing to the Council A few days ago we arrived at mum's old home, late but in the long light of the Highland summer. Since then, but for walks with Oscar, it's been work, including composing a letter...
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Tidying and clearing the house in the Highlands
Tidying Brin Croft I would, while she was alive, think of how it would be, sleeping and eating in her empty home, going through her things, sorting, allocating, disposing. I knew the day would one day...
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Work
I cycled into town, Oscar running with me beside the canal, to get leaflets copied, buy some odds and ends including batteries for my cycle lights, marker pens, and a reliable steak bake from Greggs,...
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Place
We're all in the kitchen here, Amy. Liz, Oliver, Lin and I, with Flea watching us making lists... Going back to an afternoon in 2009 on the other side of the world: Meanwhile in the small town of...
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Handsworth Helping Hands
Working in Stamford Road Residents and volunteers with Handsworth Helping Hands - our local voluntary handyperson group with transit van and tools and enthusiasm - filled three skips with rubbish from...
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My hearing
I noticed his name badge - Phil Ypres-Smith. He was the expert at City Hospital Hearing Treatment Centre where I had an appointment on Friday morning, much sooner than I'd expected after my slightly...
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A thread on Facebook - 'Only Corfu Society' - on superstition, religion and...
ReferenceRECENT POSTSVanessa KatsarouThere is a bird that screeches at night (definitely a bird not an owl as I have made out it's outline in a tree). My Greek husband has always got very unnerved when...
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The wind vane on Brin Croft
James, Isobel’s son-in-law, roofer, got astride the ridge of Brin Croft and tugged at the iron wind-vane, already loose in its bracket, until it pulled free. He lowered it to me on a washing line.“Do...
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Back to Birmingham
Last summer - Mum, Lulu, Oliver, Cookie, Amy and Oscar My mother's bedroom emptied of all but carpet and curtains; and every crevice, corner, surface, shelf and cranny of the rest of Brin Croft, dusted...
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Technical details - it's a start!
Planting a vine - processed location film from 'Out of Town', 31 August 1972 from Simon Baddeley on Vimeo. In my archive, this film - with sound effects but no commentary from my stepfather Jack...
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In Handsworth Park
Oliver, our grandson, in Handsworth Park, with Guy, Amy and, our friend, Liz expecting a daughter soon Liz came to us with Amy and Guy and Oliver on Sunday. A dropsical blanket of cloud lay over the...
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'The glory and the freshness of a dream...'
“I can’t believe it’s already a week since Amy and Guy went home” said Lin "Time"“I think I know why it passes quicker when you’re older”“Go on” I said“Every day is a smaller proportion of your whole...
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A plot
Jan emails: Simon. Have you seen the results of Local elections? Extraordinary results for UKIP who took 25% of the votes. In Lincolnshire they now have 16 councillors, having had none previously and...
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Summer Song's ready to go back in the sea
A succession of clear skies and proliferating greenery and, with the heat, the steady increase of public voices up and down Democracy Street, among our neighbours and people walking by, sometimes...
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Continuity
Dave was already attaching slings beneath Summersong when we arrived at the harbour. The crane, four sturdy supports extended either side of its carrier, squatted between boat and water, its driver...
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The blue of the sea we've left behind
South wind on the west coast of Corfu Sat either side of the aisle we saw lozenges of perfect blue as our plane ascended, banking in a wide circle that brought us over Pantokrator, then the high coast...
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Rain
I took Oscar for a walk into town. We left the house in in rain. I wore layers of clothes under a full-length waxed cotton raincoat, neck warmer, waterproof gloves. Starting through Handsworth Park I...
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