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The Balsam Centre - Services
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Strictly - Ballroom Dancing. Services at The Balsam Centre. Don't forget the CAT bus, a vital service if you don't have a car or can't drive whilst you are recovering from an operation perhaps. It will pick you up from home and drop you back again. Check out the information on how to register for the service. The country market runs from the Balsam Centre too - pick up local fresh food, cakes and jams, and John Holman runs Wholemeal Media from here, on hand to make community films and videos. This is our...
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The world from my window: The wonderful Varkarola in Paleokastritsa, Corfu
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Monday, 5 August 2013. The wonderful Varkarola in Paleokastritsa, Corfu. It's a story I know so well. Odysseus, shipwrecked after battling with Poseidon who is angry at the hero for blinding his son, the cyclops Polyphemus, lands, naked and exhausted, on the shores of Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians. The story came alive last night, at the Varkarola at Paleokastritsa. Because Corfu, you see, is wid...
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The world from my window: Lush Places, Dorset
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Lush Places, Dorset. Let me take you now to Lush Places, an enchanted village where the luvvies seldom venture, where the mist swirls around and around the top of Bluebell Hill like a maelstrom. Just down the road is that well-heeled, genteel little Dorset town whose name all non-locals mispronounce. They wander along the street market, picking up pieces of junk and muttering that they used to have somethi...
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The world from my window: May 2015
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Sunday, 24 May 2015. As I walked out one mid-spring afternoon. Up in the churchyard, the sheep are safely grazing. We walk up the lane and the dog disappears after a pheasant. I'm left whistling, embarrassed, and she comes back ten minutes later. Through the farmyard, corrugated iron everywhere, rusting roofs caved in. Out into the open again, the farmers are hard at work in the field; two brothers doing a...
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The world from my window: July 2015
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Friday, 24 July 2015. The heat is still on in Greece. In front rooms and in coffee bars, on sun loungers and all through the internet and the media, there is confusion and differences of opinion. There are so many aspects to this crisis. If I hear anyone nod sagely that the Greeks are at fault ‘because they are lazy’ I will personally insert an Olympic-sized discus up their rear end. Links to this post.
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The world from my window: Let's raise a glass of ouzo to Greece
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Saturday, 11 July 2015. Let's raise a glass of ouzo to Greece. As the future of Greece hangs on a souvlaki stick, I wonder how things will pan out. So much has been said about this crisis, nothing I say will make any difference. I don't know much about economics but my heart tells me that the Greek people have been served a pretty raw deal over the years. A Piraeus Bank initiative for the humanitarian cris...
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The world from my window: Kalimera Kerkyra - a return visit to Corfu
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Kalimera Kerkyra - a return visit to Corfu. I turn my back for five minutes and find my husband in bed with another female. Arty has climbed up onto the mattress and is having a cuddle, blatant in her enjoyment as she rolls over to have her tummy tickled. She's not even allowed on the sofa, let alone the bed. We can see Corfu from the cabin windows. Someone is keen to get going.
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The world from my window: My books
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. This is a link to my Amazon page. My book about our year in a wonderful Corfiot village. Good Morning, Corfu: A Year on A Greek Island. Is due out in 2016. You can pre-order it on Kindle. My novella A Year in Lush Places: Tales from England's Rural Underbelly was published in the summer of 2013 and is. Available in paperback from The Book Depository. Free delivery worldwide) and also on. Is causing a stir.
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The world from my window: Celebrating with the fans at Bristol City
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Monday, 20 April 2015. Celebrating with the fans at Bristol City. They're playing Drink Up Thy Zider. At Bristol City's ground, Ashton Gate. So we drink up our cider and head for our seats, having gone through the turnstiles in a numbered entry system devised by the Romans for the Coliseum and other public buildings like it. There is singing and getting up all through the match, which is not very interesti...
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The world from my window: June 2015
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The world from my window. Tales from Corfu and Dorset. Lush Places, Dorset. Agios Magikades, Corfu. Friday, 26 June 2015. Far from the Glastonbury madding crowd. Head on over to the The Lady Shed. Today for my post about why I'm not at Glastonbury. Links to this post. Monday, 22 June 2015. Summertime hits Lush Places like a fireball. It's true,' the old man in the pub said. If you look out across from here on the longest day, you'll see the sun setting between those two chimney pots.'. I wasn't the only ...
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