viola's people watching blog
Why is it we can never tuck away our childhood and forget about it like old toys or even chuck it off like dreaded old school books? Well my childhood was in the 50’s and 60’s on rubber estates in peninsula Malaysia and those experiences had been hanging in the […]
` BORN FREE… AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS…BORN FREE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART…’ I think the song captures the first few years of my life in Crete. When we started out in the old house where his grandparents used to live in, the skipper and I…I’m calling him that […]
My first dip into the sea was a very long time ago, in a different country and what seems to me a different lifetime. I was in Standard One and the nuns took us on a trip to the seaside, to a place called Morib. They might as well have […]
This is a wonderful line from Beatrix Potter in The Tale Of Johnny Town Mouse. Annie and I used to read it together and break out in ripples of laughter. In that single line the whole picture unfolds, so succinctly, describing the presence of a cat in the house. I […]
Just the other day we were sitting in front of the TV watching some serial, when they interrupted the programme with an announcement, which went something like this…` Silver Alert! An elderly man has gone missing. Anyone who knows his whereabouts please contact….’ His photo and details flashed in front […]
The week before last, we resumed our long awaited Saturday night outings. But before that, I once again had to do the dreaded deed… descend the stairs into the basement and rummage through those bags stashed with my summer clothes. I had taken a peek into them a week ago […]
Mid week, sometime in the late afternoon, when I was lounging around the house wondering whether to take on the all consuming job of soaking the roots of my orchids in water, the phone rang. It was my Kung Fu friend. She was in the neighbourhood and wanted pop in […]
Last Sunday marked the picking up of where we had left off, the revisiting of old habits missed so dearly. We were resuming our Sunday lunches out, now that restaurants have been given the green light to serve meals outdoors. No more cooking at home on Sundays or ordering a […]
We had our garden dug and prepared for the new planting season since the beginning of April. Normally, we would start planting before Easter. But this year the Greek Easter ambled in leisurely and coupled with the lockdown, we somehow couldn’t find the drive to plant early. Last Saturday, however, […]
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 […]