The Froth

All the things you are

31. May 2006

I got a marvellous package from Gina. With a card, cd, chocolate, envelopes with my initials, stickers and fantastic cooking magazines, which I am currently reading (I already sent the magazine my recipe suggestions for the next issue and I included two from the ones you sent me Gina). And my friend Scholiast, [...]

Hung Fashions

30. May 2006

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He prefers briefs There is this annoying family that lives upstairs. Among other things, they always hang their clothes so loosely that many socks especially, land on my kitchen balcony. Today I heard a horrible noise. Someone was banging the balcony rail with a broom stick. I looked up and there he was, the annoying neighbour, [...]

Pretty pretty star

29. May 2006

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Happy Birthday Thank you all for your concern, emails , comments and wishes for Blondie. She is much better and she is going to go home tomorrow. The weekend was not a very happy one, since she was in hospital, but today is a very important day for me. It’s my sister’s birthday and [...]

Blondie is in hospital

27. May 2006

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She had a severe asthma attack. She left it too late and she almost, well, almost. On top of that she has pneumonia, mild pneumonia though. I called her yesterday to ask her to come to the Book Festival with me and she said "I can’t I am in hospital". So I went there and [...]

La cucaracha

26. May 2006

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scary but not as scary as what followed We went for a beer to our favourite (not anymore) beer garden in the area. It was nice, and we also had a vegetarian schnitzel. As we were finishing our beers and I was starting to feel pleasantly dizzy, M shouted "let’s get out of here, NOW". Because [...]

I found it

25. May 2006

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See me happy? It’s because I found my camera. Which I had lost in the taxi yesterday. But the taxi driver brought it to me. Am I ever going to say mean things about taxi drivers again? I am afraid so. But I will always add "except from the nice one who gave me back [...]

War dances and slutty nighties

24. May 2006

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The dance The other day I went to this festival that people from Pontus have every year in my area. Pontus is the area where greek speaking colonies had been established on the shores of the Black Sea since ancient times (after facing persecution in the beginning of the 20th century, remaining Pontic people were expelled [...]