viola's people watching blog
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…` […]
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, […]
This is a story we’ve told friends and family so many times and now…….. they’d run a mile if they heard the slightest intimations of yet another rehash……. of how we got started to tying the knot………But bear with me…….. I need to create a little ambiance first……..throw in a […]
Do you stamp your mug in front of famous sights, posing, with sunglasses on, with other tourists waiting on the margins, raring to go for their turn…….just you on the Bridge Of Sighs….you discovered it…. or at a famous Parisian café where you’re supposed to be watching people….but you with […]