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Far to go
Hannah Rowan Hollier born at 00.14 the morning of Thursday 24th February (photo: Richard Baddeley) After the excitement on Thursday I went to London for the afternoon - Birmingham Snow Hill to...
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Festival in Ano Korakiana
Το πανηγύρι..."Όσοι βρεθήκαμε το απόγευμα της Πέμπτης (24-7) στην Αγία Παρασκευή, πρέπει να αισθανθήκαμε λίγο καλύτεροι. Λίγο πιο ανεβασμένοι.Από τη μια μεριά οι ενεργές δυνάμεις του χωριού με...
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Weekend on Bell Hill
We return to Greece in just over a month, but Rock Cottage in Lydbrook weighs on us even there, the place we found in 1981 and bought in days. We went to a wedding in south Wales and on the A40, the...
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On the allotment
The skies opened on us yesterday afternoon. Oscar and I sheltered under the shed veranda. Oliver decided to stand in the rain amid thunder and lightning and a shower of hail.'Come here, Oliver!" He...
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Gradually essential work gets done
Eiderdowns hang from our Handsworth washing line. No Ionian wind to sun-dry and ventilate them. Instead I watch carefully to bring them in if the clouds grown darker and heavier. They came from Rock...
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Once again we will miss the music event - Agiotfest - run by our friends Paul and Lula McGovern in Ayios Ioannis every year; this year on Saturday evening 30th August. We've supported the event in...
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Work
As expected the house continues to be full of family. The building work on Amy's and Guy's home is taking longer, going slower than the builder's given dates.Our kitchen, August 2014 Oscar shares dog...
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
I'm not nominating anyone to repeat this silliness, but if a drop in the ocean - or on my head and shoulders as I sit in our garden in front of my tiny camera - gives publicity to Amyotrophic Lateral...
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'...the wiry edge of our fretfulness...'
For the last two years I've attached myself to 'The Birmingham 1000 Elders group' linked to Prof Janet Lord'sCentre for Healthy Ageing at the QE Hospital in Birmingham. A few times a year we answer...
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Κίνημα του 1935
Maria Roussen ~ Η Μαρία Ρουσσέν ~ by Yiannis Moralis ~ Γιάννης Μόραλης When my half brother George Pericles Baddeley gave a funeral oration for his mother, my Greek stepmother, Maria Baddeley, née...
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Lindfield School
Hyde End House ~ site of Lindfield, my first boarding school where I went aged 6 with my sister aged 5 in 1948Received on 4 Sept 2014: Dear Simon. Thanks very much for your reply and for checking...
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Far to go
Hannah Rowan Hollier born at 00.14 the morning of Thursday 24th February (photo: Richard Baddeley) After the excitement on Thursday I went to London for the afternoon - Birmingham Snow Hill to...
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The village sculptor at work
Aristeidis Metallinos of Ano Korakiana by Jan Bowman (Sept 2014) As a generous present for a small favour my friend Jan has sketched the laic sculptor Aristeidis Metallinos, working from a photo lent...
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A universe of children
(Photo: Lin Baddeley)Once upon a time in a universe of children, we direct their sagas; stories full of half-human noises – a script of monosyllables, mingled with wailing and laughing. Late evening,...
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A family visit to the Museum
Angeliki arranged for the family including Liz and Sophia, to see inside the Aristeidis Metallinos Museum one Wednesday morning“My parent's house is full of children. Let me take you all for a coffee...
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Picnic below Mount Pantockrator
From a stroll around the summit of Mount Pantocrator, a ascent via Sokraki, Zigos, Sgourades and Strinilas, we descended a kilometer to a place in sight of the mountain top and spread ourselves a...
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On the allotment
The skies opened on us yesterday afternoon. Oscar and I sheltered under the shed veranda. Oliver decided to stand in the rain amid thunder and lightning and a shower of hail.'Come here, Oliver!" He...
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Winter onions showing through
Winnie has sent me pictures of her labours Plot 14 on the Victoria Jubilee; my winter onions surfacing; Brussels sprouts coming along; Jerusalem artichokes doing fine. What also pleases me is the...
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Late October in the village
Dawn over the mainland - an October morning in Ano Korakiana As the time to leave the village and return to the distant city grows closer I find myself playing down here; playing up there. It’s the...
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