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“Start writing again mummy.”

My daughter told me a couple of weeks that I should start writing again. I’ve thought about it and attempted a couple of times. The truth is much of what I’ve written in the past few months has been full of swearing. I don’t know...

Who do you know: a shameless plug

Last month I watched a movie that inspired me to write more. I set myself a challenge to write a blog post a day for a month. I managed 27 posts in 31 days and thoroughly enjoyed sitting down to write something meaningful each day. I also really...

Becoming a Greek: names, dates and places revisited

I’m afraid Greek bureaucracy has been a less than pleasant experience in my life. My first encounter with the Greek public services had me walking home in tears. Subsequently I have been ignored, spoken rudely to, and even shouted at in Greece, when...

Make – up relearned: part 2

 So in the last blog post I wrote about wanting to relearn how to do my make – up. I found that my it was not looking right, after the Boots Natural Collection powder I had used for, like, a thousand years, was discontinued. I also found I...

Trusted Greek Vegan Recipes: Part 2

Today, I thought I would tell you about another ‘go to’ recipes for plant based eating. It is called Briam. Like the lentils, it is easy, simple and tasty – my favourite kind of dish! The only slight difference is that I find this...

Every item has a story

Today I spent the day sorting through items in my house, getting ready to move. It’s really not my favourite thing to do, and I find it quite difficult. So, after 10 hours of working hard, I was very proud of myself for actually getting...

Trusted Greek Vegan recipes part 1

Yesterday I wrote about my change of diet to mostly plant based food, and my renewed appreciation of Greek vegan dishes. So today I thought I’d share one of my favourite Greek vegan recipes with you. When I first got married, I asked my mum to buy...

Plant based kebab: it’s karma

It’s Friday night, my husband and I are both exhausted, the kids are away, it is past dinner time, and we hadn’t eaten. We rocked up at the local gourmet pizza bar, and took a few minutes to decide what we were eating. Only when we ordered...

Dear Giagia: letters from a ten year old me

When I was ten years old, my family and I moved from beautiful, sunny Glyfada on the coast near Athens to less sunny, (but also beautiful in its own way) Ascot, in Berkshire. It was the eighties, the internet didn’t exist (not in our homes...

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