My Family and Other Animals
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Who Let the Dog Out? Oh Yeah. We Did.
You all remember Fred, don’t you? I do, I live with him. We took him out for walkies down the field yesterday, same as ever and he started to sneeze on the way back. I’m not kidding, they were proper sneezes complete with Fred bashing his paw over his nose, like, “What’s happening to… Continue reading
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Skinny Jeans and a Hoodie. The Tan Fades Rapidly.
I guess no one liked the Greek title of my last blog. It meant ‘good afternoon’, though I can’t remember how to pronounce it, I lost my phrasebook. The hits counter has gone way down since I started exploring foreign languages. Having returned home yesterday evening after eternity on the M25 thanks to… Continue reading
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Καλημέρα
Yasas. I wuldtranslate itintoGreek but I only have twenty-five minutes of Internet time left andhalf of it ismaking the space key and backspace work. I think I willnot bother editing it as an example of theHotel Valais’ crappy keyboards. I could tell you about the weather,but we allknow that Zakynthos, as an Ionian island, is HOT.I am sweating aswespeak. There was… Continue reading
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No More Pencils, No More Books, No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks
We just said an emotional farewell to Fred, who is off to someone’s home while we go to Zante. I couldn’t accompany him to exile, it would overwhelm me. Plus he moults a lot this time of year and frankly I don’t need him sitting on my lap for the journey. I’ve had… Continue reading
