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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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The Year that Went

04/01/2016 By
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The older you get the faster the years fly by…. or so it seems, despite doing everything more slowly than one used to. It is our fourth since we returned to England after our two decades resident in Cyprus. Despite now being formally “retired”, we seemed too busy to make a trip to the Island […]

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Roll up! Roll up! For a slice of RETRO

07/12/2015 By
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  Ably assisted by my daughter Susanna, who is a wiz with Internet publishing and my son Robert who is highly expert with websites, I have launched my first non-food book, a bit of autobiography in fact. It takes the reader back quite a few years – more than 75 – and tells what it […]

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VILLAGE VOICE REMEMBERED

08/11/2015 By
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  An Email from a dear friend of our years in a hill village of Cyprus, talking of a well loved taverna keeper, the venerable mukhtar of many years’ standing and various other local personalities, brought back a flood of memories, some of them demonstrating the speed of change in the island in recent years. […]

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PICK A PACKET OF PASTRY OR TWO…

14/08/2015 By
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  There’s a lot to be said for a good tart or pie. Among the pies and pastries that arrive on our table, one of my favourites is rabbit pie. Having enjoyed this delicacy in several countries, I can assure you that the Cyprus rabbit is as good as any. Being “tame”, it doesn’t have […]

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PATRICK’S JULY POT-POURRI

13/07/2015 By
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EDITOR WANTED? To quote its own blurbs, “Parikiaki” is ‘the leading Greek Cypriot newspaper published in London which serves the Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in excess of 300,000 people’. This month it ran a story about a Greek Cypriot couple who recently opened a restaurant featuring Cyprus cooking in a town called Chandler in […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Patrick's Potterings, The Cyprus Gourmet, Weekly Edition Published in Cyprus
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