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Popcorn

Well I made the popcorn and unbelievably enough I LIKED it. In fact Sean and I ate most of it with junior only having a couple of mouthfuls. My daughter has the strange belief that if it comes in a packet then it will be better than anything mummy makes. I think I had this [...]

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Independence

Yesterday was Independence Day in Greece celebrating the end of Turkish rule in 1821, so it was obviously a holiday, which in Greece involves parades, dressing up in your Sunday best and eating! The day before was Junior’s celebration at school which involved a lot of singing and reciting of poetry. Although I didn’t understand [...]

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Fattening up a 5 year old

Since Junior’s cold a few weeks’ ago, I’ve noticed that she’s lost a bit of weight. Hardly surprising really as I’m the same, can’t and don’t want to eat when my nose is running and I can’t breathe I’m trying to ‘fatten’ her up again but she has been quite resistant to my [...]

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Time for the beach

The sun was shining, the sky was blue so we did the natural thing and headed for the beach so that junior could build sandcastles. We went to her favourite beach, Limnonari, because it has sand (essential in the construction of castles), it’s sheltered, and it always has a cat or two around. We hadn’t [...]

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Technical glitch

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that the last post I wrote “The cold strikes” has disappeared. This is due to a technical failure on our host server. When they restored the domain they did so from the last backup which did not include the March post so I’ll include the pictures etc [...]

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