The Powerful Sense of Smell
How powerful the sense of smell is, it can evoke vivid, forgotten memories in seconds, childhood memories, a certain day, people and places. This must begin at birth, the ability a newborn baby...
Greeker Than The Greeks
The Greek Panigiri – Celebrate Greek-Style
During the summer months, all over Greece, from the tiniest of churches in the tiniest of villages, to the largest of cathedrals in the towns, Greeks keep a centuries old tradition alive;...
I Collect and Create Therefore I Am
There’s so much satisfaction to be had from creating something yourself, even if the results are not 100% professional, you did it, you created it, it has a part of you in it,...
The 1970s Growing up in Leeds – Yorkshire – England
It’s 1969, the first man is on the moon, I left Bolton Royd junior school, started at Pudsey Grammar and so began my teenage years and the seventies. Some friends came along with...
Summer In a Greek Garden
I’m so lucky to live in Greece with its warm, sunny climate which allows me to more or less live outdoors in the garden through spring, summer and well into the autumn, even...
15 Unique Greek Women – Ancient and Modern
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” Aristotle Onassis Since ancient times women have played a major role in Greek society, going way back to the...
September is a Melancholy Month
September is a melancholy month, a month of endings and a month of new beginnings. My “New Year” begins with September not January, this is the time of summer drawing to a close,...
7 Beautiful Women of a Certain Age
We seem to be in a phase of “The older woman” The older woman, who has not succumbed to plastic surgery, botox, fillers and other such procedures. How refreshing those magazines are now featuring older women,...
To My Children – Being a Mother
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” J.D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Was I a good mother? Was I bad mother? A bit of both I suppose, after all nobody is perfect....
Loutraki Corinthia – Greece
Loutraki is a small spa town in Greece, which, for the past forty two years, I’ve called home. It’s the place where my two children were raised, the place where I saw them...
