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MAY TRAVEL FEATURE

23/05/2016 By
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  From my travel files ……. A Tour of IRAN One morning in the early 1970s a slightly scruffy letter arrived in my public relations company in London. It was clearly a duplicated one, sent to a number of companies like ours – from the tourism attaché of the Iranian Embassy. The brief message enquired […]

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Memorable Mealtime Moments, and a classic recipe for Stuffed Cabbage

10/10/2016 By
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  In writing these notes, I realised that all the items I mention are still as popular today as they were 50 or more years ago. As the French say: “Plus ça change…” I was a kid during World War 2 (WWII) and, like everyone else, first endured and then made the best of the […]

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My Book gets its First Review…

14/01/2016 By
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E-book published through Amazon – £4.99 From time to time I have featured in these pages what I would term “Notes from Limassol”, contributed by an old friend, whose pen name is Charalambous.  He has just written to me: “I enjoyed your book which I loaded on my kindle. It is quite an amazing saga, […]

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My Week

05/01/2013 By

“Put in a pound of Lard” As I dry fried some bacon on Friday lunch time I got to thinking about a day long ago when I organised demonstrations of non-stick frying pan in department stores around the UK.  In Manchester one day, the lady demonstrator I had hired didn’t turn up and I was […]

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NEW BOOKS, OLD BOOKS and WONDERFUL OLD AEROPLANES

10/02/2014 By
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The lights are on. It’s pretty dark outside. Gloom rules. And it’s just after lunch. January 2014 was wet, wet, wet, and for much of the time we remained in our quarters. There’s a limit to TV watching so in this deep mid-winter books have been even more appreciated than usual. When we moved to […]

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NOTES, March 13th. – FOUR SEASONS

13/03/2013 By
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Like other days this week and recently, today has produced ice, snow, sleet, rain, wind, clouds and sunshine, four seasons in one day so to speak. As I sit paddling the keys on my laptop it is currently snowing. This picture, taken a couple of days ago might be my 2013 Christmas Card. THIS WEEK […]

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