Year: 2016

This morning on my run, my eye caught something on the ground. I ran past it, thinking it was a sweet wrapper or some tinsel and then stopped short. Did my eyes deceive me? So I went back and had another look. And this is what I found. My run ended there and I carefully…

IN my last blog I talked about lives, now lost, that mattered to me. So today it is fitting to celebrate life once more and what better way to do this then by going to a seven year old’s birthday party. This was truly such a wonderful afternoon, not only because the kids enjoyed it,…

Throughout my peripatetic professional life, I was lucky enough to work with some inspirational people and today I feel I need to talk about them. They gave me direction and support, knowledge and skills sets, some of which I use every day. Yesterday, the last of my bosses passed away at the unbearably early age…

Not how you would expect – no traps here, no nets, just a steady hand guiding a diamond cutter to create some exquisite creatures. The creator is an artist from NSW, Kayo Yokoyama. She has used glass as her medium and with these diamond cutters she engraves into the glass, creatures of all shapes and…

The sense of liberation is palpable – back to mind bending monogamy and the joys of finding hidden passion on a winter’s day.

Something somewhat unnerving has happened to me this week. I guess I am not the only one and certainly not the last to experience this.  Suddenly I was getting notifications in my email of an account created on a site called Tagged.com. The email account was an old account of mine which I haven’t used…

This is the pan handle region of the island – the long bit which extends out towards the Eastern Mediterranean and this is a sparsely populated area which holds some of the few Greek Cypriots who refused to leave their land and houses when the Turkish army moved into these areas in 1974. They were…

Nicosia as a capital city has a long and rich history and now has the dubious honour of being the only divided capital in Europe. It became the capital around the 10th Century.  Under Venetian rule the fortifications were built in the shape of a star with eleven bastions and the Pedieos river running through…

Paros was our last island and the end of a glorious adventure in the Aegean Sea. The weather could not have been better or the seas more tranquil. The occasional gust meant we also enjoyed some sailing and the dolphins and the turtle just completed the experience. Paros was popular and stunning. We wandered around…

These are a group of little islands which are not as popular as their neighbours but very pretty and well worth visiting.You can tell how clear the waters are by the numbers of sea urchins everywhere. I am told it is the sign of a clean sea.Those are the black spots in the water. The…