The Froth

Get on that plane

29. June 2006

If you rang my bell in the morning, we would go to Plaka, in Old Athens, and have breakfast there, in a little café. They make pastries, pies, juices, nice coffee and they have lots of teas. Then, we would stroll aimlessly, so you could see the architecture, the street vendors, the monuments. We’d [...]

Somewhere, everywhere,anywhere

28. June 2006

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The swallow of summer, the seamstress of summer, She scissors the blue into shapes and she sews it, She draws a long thread and she knots it at the corners. Ted Hughes- Work and Play My friend Pille visited me on Sunday. I know her from my other blog neighbourhood, and I mean my recipes blog. [...]

The rebellious mouse and other stories

23. June 2006

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M wants us to go to the gay pride festival. I am all for that, I just don’t know if I want to go to the gay pride parade, and look like a dwarf among all the beautiful, long legged drag queens. No, I am joking, I don’t have a problem with dwarves either. [...]

All the things you are

31. May 2006

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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, [...]

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 [...]

My addictions

16. May 2006

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Birds on a wire outside my mum’s house I have new addiction: Fonts. I have downloaded about 50 new of them and some of them you are about to catch a glimpse of (like the compass on the left), because they are not real fonts but collections of nice little drawings. I have another [...]