The Froth

Erm, I am back

23. August 2006

I like holidays in the second fortnight of August. Because there is this feeling that summer is ending and this finality makes the days brighter and nights are more fragrant with the smell of jasmin. People are mellower too, ripe and ready to fall. Kythira is a very special place. There are lots of people [...]

Thank you for the memory

11. August 2006

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I love travel but I hate the laundry that goes with it. And the ironing, although that’s the step of personal grooming I usually skip. I only iron my son’s t-shirts so that the other kids won’t make fun of him at school. I got an extra memory stick for my camera to ensure a [...]

The unscholarly spammer

9. August 2006

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Two changes in this blog: I have 45 songs to fit in that CD so I am going to start burning tonight. Therefore what is done is done. Second, while I was sleeping, someone sent me 22 spam comments. Now you know I have issues with sleep being an overestimated bore and a [...]

Hung up

8. August 2006

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My son doesn’t think it is weird that he uses this as a reading light at night Have you ever held a telephone conversation while secretly trying to find a way to hang up the phone? Not a conversation, more like a monologue on the other end of the line, about someone else’s bottom? And how [...]

Let’s make a cd

6. August 2006

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I want to make a cd with people’s best songs ever. Just submit your best song. I know it is difficult. But imagine that cd! I promise to send it to each and every one of you who asks for it. There is going to be your name or blogname next to your song. [...]

My nephew is born

5. August 2006

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This is not my nephew, but being a relatively new arrival, he doesn’t like being photographed. A new hope has come into the world: My beautiful nephew. He was born last night. Likes: Eating his hand (as opposed to just sucking his thumb). Dislikes: Everything else.

Pollyanna grows up

4. August 2006

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There is a risk I might sound like Pollyanna, but so far I’ve only met nice blogfriends. Yesterday evening I met with Vista at 8 and I returned home at 1:30. And we spent all this time in a café, just talking. We had so much to talk about and I don’t think we [...]