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"...a change in the heart of things"
Skimmed by the bulldozers - the site of the new Victoria Jubilee Allotments in 2004 The soil spread by the developer, when re-creating the space for growing things, is acknowledged problematic. Didn’t...
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Bees
The previous owners of this house cut down three trees in its small garden to make room for a dish that would enable them to view the same programmes they watched in England. They took it when they...
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Full house
We are in clouds, driven by a breeze carrying spatters of rain from the east, enclosed in luminous grey.......Compared to such a morning in Brin Croft, the chill has no edge to it. The household sleeps...
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Our street
'Tourism serves everyone' by Aristedes Metallinos, village sculptor of Ano Korakiana 1981See the wanton tourist led towards the olive groves on a priapic donkey by handsome ragged trousered peasant....
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Into May
Still we play cat-and-mouse with the rain that falls in May - taking the laundry out and taking it in and then out again in sunny intervals. We heard their Easyjet taking off yesterday and waved as we...
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Walking in the rain
"That's the most sinister olive" It stood on its own in a meadow beside our path to Ipsos from Ano Korakiana Pouring rain had set-in for the day. Amy said “I’m walking with Oliver to Ipsos” She and I...
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Λαός
Chapter 4 of Lawrence Durrell's Prospero's Cell - 'Karaghiozis, a Laic Hero' - was when I came across this. Α good six years ago. I shall now try to learn more. We have a poster for a local...
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At last
Monday afternoon into the evening our sky was covered with high and unfamiliar mackerel clouds. On Wednesday morning the weather at last changed. Abruptly cold drinks are nectar; shirt sleeves...
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'And if you gaze for long...'
We had become almost used to the occasional pungent eggy smell outside the back of the house. While working on rebuilding the steps to the garden, Lin said “Clear some of the Canna lilies next to the...
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Lunch with Richard Pine - pondering Ballybeg
Avignon© Bert SmithA woman in Perithia, seeing my car with a hire company badge on the driver's door, wandered over to peer in my window and saw Richard sat beside me."Oh! It's you. I thought you...
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Η Νέα Δημοτική Αρχή ~ The new local government of Corfu
From the Ano Korakiana website:Έντεκα μέρες (!!!) χρειάστηκαν μετά τον α’ γύρο των Δημοτικών Εκλογών για να έχουμε τα τελικά αποτελέσματα της σταυροδοσίας και τα ονόματα των νέων Δημοτικών Συμβούλων,...
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In England again
The grass on the front lawn was too much for the mower. I scythed... ...then Amy and Oliver helped collect cut grass. Today has been sunny. We expect thunder and rain tomorrow. About four weeks now to...
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Plot 14 in June
Gill maintains a progress report on the VJA bees Standing close to their hive, seeing bees coming and going, I catch the enticing whiff of honey. Gill finally brought over new bees from the city...
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Black Patch Park
We had a good meeting - we reckoned who were there - about the Black Patch; with Nick at Sandwell Council.Winding up the meeting: Friends of Black Patch Park at Sandwell Council house"It's very...
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Του λαἲκού λιθογλύπτη της Άνω Κορακιάνας
Because his museum, for complicated reasons, is not open to the public or even the village, far too little is known of the laic sculptor Aristedes Metallinos, whose work Linda and I first saw before...
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Patricia Storace
Dinner with Persephone If Jim Potts hadn't just mentioned this book on his blog, Corfu Blues, I would not have come across it. Patricia Storace - yes. I've read her - accomplished and entertaining - in...
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Is the shoemaker notable enough?
The backward facing man by Aristeidis MetallinosΕίναι ο τσαγκάρης αρκετά ξεχωριστό; Getting an entry in Wikipedia isn't straightforward. Rightly so. In the case of the sculptor Aristeidis Metallinos**...
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Richard and Aristeidis in Wikipedia
Ο απολογισμός μας στην Νικηφόρου ΘεοτόκηRichard Pine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRichard Pine (born 21 August 1949) is the author of critical works on the Irish playwright Brian Friel and the...
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Οι ψύλλοι
I'm being bitten by fleas. It made me search in my head for a picture I recall seeing on one of many visits to the Barber Institute on campus; a woman hunting under her blouse for a flea. Peeping Toms...
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Bees
The bees on my plot aren't swarming as I feared; rather a new colony is taking over the old. Our neighbour Gill, the apiarist, Gill visited late afternoon. The whirling swirling cloud of bees I'd...
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