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Continue reading →: Big RiverI’ve just spent a couple of very pleasant days with my brother, Nick, and his partner, Lou. They were in their campervan, returning back to England from the Turkish coast, where they have a house and spend part of the year. After some deliberation, I managed to find a suitable…
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Continue reading →: War Pony
This is a dual coming of age film about two young Oglala Lakota boys at key stages in their childhood; one positive, the other pretty much the opposite. Bill in his early 20s, is already the father of two sons. He is hard-working, taking any opportunity to earn a bit…
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Continue reading →: Leaving Lefkada – back up north for a couple of days
Roja didn’t enjoy Karya, in particular the small cottage we took for three days to sit out the storm. It rained heavily for twelve hours then wind gusts of up to 100 kph for the next twelve. I put my head out the door in the early hours and wet…
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Continue reading →: Rififi
Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (France 1955) In film noir the portrayal of the characters and the plot force the viewer to identify with the bad guy. There can be good ‘bad guys’ and bad ‘bad guys’ and a sliding scale in between. It’s generally a tougher job on the…
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Continue reading →: Sitting out the Storm in KaryaI’m sitting out Storm Apollo in the hill village of Karya, still on Lefkada island. It’s been a week of storms, interspersed with some fine warm days, but this is a big one, lasting about 15 hours, and named, with rain falling heavily as subsequent thunder showers today, Saturday, followed…
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Continue reading →: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson
Should further incentive be necessary to read this informative and engaging book, the author is a professor at Exeter University specialising in Magical Literature. How very wonderful.. One of the reasons this succeeds where many have failed is by giving its attention to the lives of the women on trial…
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Continue reading →: Cape Lefkas, Lefkada, Ionian IslandsOther than for ten minutes on the Croatian coast a few weeks ago, I hadn’t seen the sea since Shetland in August. Fast forward on three months and another island, though it couldn’t be more different. Even off-season there is quite a large population, just under 30,000 with quite a…
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Continue reading →: From the Mountains to the Coast
Monday morning came and it was time to move on out of the Pindos mountains. I’ve been able to stay about as long as I had hoped. A couple of weeks ago were the frequent thunderstorms that mainly came at night, but made the roads the following days treacherous. Now,…
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Continue reading →: Rotting In The Sun
Mexico 2023 Though set in Mexico City, this is in effect a Chilean film, with its main stars, Sebastián Silva and the brilliant Carolina Saavedra, hailing from there. Silva also directs and wrote the script. The premise may not seem immediately appealing.. an artist with a mental block, without success…
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Continue reading →: An Impromptu Mushroom FestivalRoja is confused. Firstly because of the amount of cats and their status in society. He gets the usual attention from neighbouring tables at cafes and bypassers, cats get more. He learnt a few weeks ago that here is not the place to chase them; onlookers give a disapproving shake…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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