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The winter months had dragged on, and our garden left to its own devices had flourished into a jungle….. a thicket of weeds….. wild and rampant….. bindweeds and chickweeds and oxalis with bees nuzzling greedily into their yellow flowers and stinging nettles and climbers that had climbed and fallen and […]
So we got up in the morning a bit later than usual, it being Sunday. Miu, our cat didn’t come in to wake us up. If we sleep in a little too late, she saunters in and stands by the side of the bed and meows in the intonation of […]
` Ask my mother….I swear I did my homework…. I put it right here’….. He then starts throwing things out of his bag and searching in the outside pockets for his exercise book…. Ask his mother?…. ….NO…OO…. I’m not going down that road again. I could almost guess what she […]
I used to wake up in the mornings in those early years in Crete and sing my lungs out. I belted out songs in English…….whatever popped out of my head…….. from my dad’s favourite singers….Nat King Cole’s When I fall In Love…. Dean Martin’s That’s Amore….Frank Sinatra’s My Way….right down […]