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This year the Greek Easter has come late… trundling in three weeks after everyone else has celebrated the event throughout the world. Very little has changed since last Easter…we’re still in lockdown, masks etc…no grand festivities in churches… no flocking to villages from cities and towns to be with family […]
We’ve battled hard for our rights…women’s suffrage, women’s empowerment, equality of sexes…chained ourselves to railings, burnt our bras and threw in girdles, curlers and high heels in the pyre…thank God not lipstick…..and here we are now… still trying to shake off the shackles of gender role. For many of us…` […]
Saturday evenings used to be the high point of our week before we were visited upon by this blight. We slogged it out from Monday to Friday and at the end of it, we threw on our glad rags and went out on a spree with our friends, this other […]
Whenever I think about afternoon tea with Mum, it fills me with a deep satisfying sense of comfort. It’s somewhat like when you settle down in front of the TV at night, watching your favourite programme with a plate of comfort food. For me it’s a plate of curried chicken, […]
It’s curiously funny that in the past, he never bothered with the housework or the garden. It was my domain and sometimes nobody’s domain…..running free and unkempt. But over the last few years I’ve seen a shift in inclinations….. …..a greater leaning towards household affairs…..a slight blurring of lines…..of my […]