Category: My life & Thoughts

  This is my last Friday where I shall look at the time, think “oh I must get to bed” then, go to bed relatively early, and not sleep. Each weekend, since April, I...

  This week I was honoured to have been invited to write a guest post by the lovely Simone from Retirement and Good Living, about my life in Greece, the good, the bad and...

    My love affair with the sea began with our first family jaunts to the East coast of Yorkshire; living in Leeds you don’t see much sea, so my two sisters and I...

  I hate flying, I am terrified of flying, irrational I know but I can’t help it, they say it is the safest form of transport, they can say it all they like, I’m...

    The last day of September, and what a beautiful day, it is too. The previous week, autumn had hit Greece with a bang, totally unexpected, black clouds gathered, the wind howled and...

  It rained late last night, a good, heavy rain.  As I lay in my bed, I listened to it drumming on the roof, pattering on the marble tiles of the balcony outside my...

     I love lemons, I can’t get enough of them, lemon desserts, lemon drinks, lemon scent, anything lemon, well, I have two exceptions, I don’t like the colour yellow, and I’m not keen...

    Today’s post was prompted by an article I had read in The Guardian newspaper. An article written by author Paulo Coelho about his thoughts and opinions on James Joyce’s book ‘Ulysses’.  ...

  In February 1977 MGG (My Greek God) and I drove my car from England to Greece, where, upon arrival in Greece, MGG, more or less claimed it for himself.  MMG, not known as being...