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The Reluctant Olive Farmer: Why I Dread the Olive Harvest
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer. Stories by an English expat about my often bizarre experiences of living in Greece and how I became a reluctant olive farmer. Sunday, 18 November 2007. Why I Dread the Olive Harvest. It is now four weeks, three days, sixteen hours and twenty-eight minutes until we begin this year's olive harvest. Not that I am wishing my life away counting down the time in eager anticipation until I can get out there with my olive-whacking stick. Oh no. Totally the opposite in fact. Penny had ...
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer: Snow Going Back
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer. Stories by an English expat about my often bizarre experiences of living in Greece and how I became a reluctant olive farmer. Tuesday, 12 February 2008. Unlike the Eskimos, the Greeks don't have many words for snow. In fact, they have one - χιoνι. Translated literally, it means: "Where the hell did all this white stuff come from? So, my partner Penny and I left England in the snow and arrived in Greece in the χιoνι. Some good things we've noticed about Greece so far:. At least...
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Was born in Wandsworth in 1966. A former student with the London School of Journalism, Guy has written numerous articles and made contibutions to trade journals and magazines. He has just completed his first novel,. Is due for publication late 2009. Has a BFA in drawing and intaglio printmaking, which led her to a fine career in waitressing and tending bar. A pirate with real battle scars, she’d write a poem as she walked the plank. Publications: Loch Raven Review, Spring issue. Lives in the South West o...
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Doris the Disaffected Hamster: November 2007
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Doris the Disaffected Hamster. And Other Moral Tales for Post-Modern Times. Wednesday, 28 November 2007. What's In A Name? Giles Gestapo was not the sort of person that people took to easily. His name didn’t help for a start. It made people think he wasn’t somebody you’d want to spend time with. The ‘Giles’ made him sound upper-class and the ‘Gestapo’ – well, it made him sound like a not very pleasant German person. However, this proved to be a BIG MISTAKE as his dissatisfaction with his name gnawed away...
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer: November 2007
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer. Stories by an English expat about my often bizarre experiences of living in Greece and how I became a reluctant olive farmer. Sunday, 18 November 2007. Why I Dread the Olive Harvest. It is now four weeks, three days, sixteen hours and twenty-eight minutes until we begin this year's olive harvest. Not that I am wishing my life away counting down the time in eager anticipation until I can get out there with my olive-whacking stick. Oh no. Totally the opposite in fact. Penny had ...
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer: February 2008
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer. Stories by an English expat about my often bizarre experiences of living in Greece and how I became a reluctant olive farmer. Tuesday, 12 February 2008. Unlike the Eskimos, the Greeks don't have many words for snow. In fact, they have one - χιoνι. Translated literally, it means: "Where the hell did all this white stuff come from? So, my partner Penny and I left England in the snow and arrived in Greece in the χιoνι. Some good things we've noticed about Greece so far:. At least...
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer: A Very British Obsession
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The Reluctant Olive Farmer. Stories by an English expat about my often bizarre experiences of living in Greece and how I became a reluctant olive farmer. Wednesday, 7 November 2007. A Very British Obsession. 8216;You’re very brave’. Is a phrase that we heard from quite a few people when my partner, Penny, and I first announced that we were moving to Greece about four years ago. If the truth be told, I don’t think either of us have ever really understood why we were being ‘brave'. Was even the catchphrase...
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Doris the Disaffected Hamster: The Meaning of Life
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Doris the Disaffected Hamster. And Other Moral Tales for Post-Modern Times. Thursday, 8 November 2007. The Meaning of Life. Once upon a time, there was a disaffected hamster called Doris who had spent her entire life alone in a metal cage. When she was very young, the children had played with her frequently but, after a few months, they stopped visiting her altogether. Since then, she would walk for hours and hours each day inside the little plastic treadmill in the cage just to pass the time. Doris was ...