viola's people watching blog
On Sunday we plucked some of our winter oranges…the ones that had peeped through the thick green foliage and soaked in the rays of the autumn sun and ripened before the others. I pointed to the ripe oranges with a broomstick and Yiannis hunched under the tree, craned his neck […]
I’ve got a curry leaf tree in my back garden which I smuggled from my sister’s house in Malaysia all the way to this sunny isle of Crete. She had wrapped up this small fledgling of a plant and tucked it into my suitcase some ten years ago and now […]
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 […]