Friday – Spinalonga and Elounda

Friday – Spinalonga and Elounda

(May 18 2023) We are in Lasithi region in Eastern Crete, my first time in Greece. It’s our first proper holiday since Cambodia in 2019, before the world changed. Reached by small boat from our hotel jetty, the small island of Spinalonga at the mouth of this...
Garden tulips

Garden tulips

(May 18 2023) It’s been a great year for tulips. I thought I’d share some pictures of the display in our garden planted by our @Heftys_garden. The large raised bed in the centre of our front garden is planted with a different colour display each year. The...
New dog in the old life

New dog in the old life

(April 27 2023) Honestly I was in no hurry to do the puppy thing again. I’ve had that experience once; it was hard work and I had no desire to repeat it. Besides which, there are countless hundreds of thousands of poor, unwanted, homeless dogs in the world,...
A small ambition

A small ambition

(April 27 2023) It’s a small thing to most, I know, but on Easter Monday I finally achieved my ambition of singing a solo aria with my choir in a concert. The work in question was Vivaldi’s Gloria, and I sang the Domine Deus as well as the Laudamus te in a duet with...