To launch my new home, I decided to do a post on a positive and welcome initiative that has been launched in Greece. It is called The Peace Education Project. Peace Education embodies the very essence of education, it’s methods, principles and overwhelming potential, so that we may offer and nurture within all our children [...]
It might seem that I am not doing an awful lot of work here at the moment. Well, that's true in a way apart from answering comments. Big things are happening though, in the background and I will let you all know in the very near future. It's not nearly as exciting as it sounds [...]
In a first step for the Pakistani men who claim to have been kidnapped here in Greece, the case will be going ahead…while no-one is jumping to conclusions, there is hope that the true story will be revealed. Via Kathimerini Pakistani migrants who claim they were kidnapped by secret agents last summer said yesterday they [...]
Via Eleftherotypia (National Greek newspaper) Thanks to the Greek Council for Refugees, refugees in Athens have the opportunity to follow English language lessons for free at the Centre of English Language Teaching (CELT). Most enrolled students come from Afghanistan, while there is a long waiting-list for a place in the 12-student class. Spread the Word [...]
I think all bloggers are afraid of this… we work hard for a year or two, build up our readers and then we want to move! Starting from scratch is daunting. Not least because you have no comments, no links, no stats, no nothing. You are completely naked just like when you began… UPDATE: I [...]
I made my own header with help of my wonderful mac god. Thank you. Steep learning curve but I am not a coward. I am finding my inner geek and that makes me very happy. Now I’m going to bring in all my links and extras and then I’ll announce the new home. Technorati Tags: [...]
After much pontificating and soul searching I have moved to a new server and I am now completely in control of my blog. It’s a bit of a difficult learning process. My little bit of html knowledge doesn’t cut it up with the big wordpress folks, so please bear with me while I find my [...]
If people call you bitchy, you probably just are This remarkably inane comment was in response to a post where I dared to blame men for the twisted world they have constructed. So there we have it. Women who speak out are shrill, hysterical, bitchy, lying, navel-gazing fruitcakes. Men are not bitchy when they comment [...]
Those who have been reading this blog for a while will know that I drink tea. (I often choke on it as I read the more outrageous comments and posts around Blogland) You will also know that I am English, which explains why I drink so much tea. So put all that together with the [...]
Originally posted Sovereignty of SeaWitch My son took part in the school oxi day celebrations yesterday. I felt strange again to be standing for prayers (out of respect for others) but not “doing my cross” but that’s another story. Lots of the other parents are non- religious like me. What was wonderful, was to see [...]
We have lived on the same street here in Athens for close to 11 years now. It is an ordinary street. It has a periptero (kiosk), a bakery, a couple of souvlaki joints, a butcher, a pharmacy, a kafenion, a flower shop, a grocer and a couple of small shops that sell a bit of [...]
Everywhere I go in my city I see people. Everywhere. Hundreds and hundreds of people. All of them unknown to me. I travel on overcrowded buses and trains. I shop in busy supermarkets. I go to cafes, to bars, to offices. Everywhere I go I see more people. Most of my life outside my house [...]
It's a day of fun, thanks to brownfemipower. Go and read everything. Links later. This is my contribution… 10 things I'd rather be doing instead of whacking trolls (not in order of preference) Cooking a fabulous dinner and sharing it with my "real life" friends Two tables pushed together in my living room and decorated [...]
A short walk from the spectacularly wasted complex at Gazi, a hop skip and a jump from the trendy bars down those back streets, is a place I can guarantee you have never been to and probably do not know it exists. It is a Roma settlement in the centre of Athens. After the trendy [...]
I want to change the world. Not because I want to be hero or to go down in history or to be the next [insert your favorite activist here] I want to change the world because the one I live in doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because it’s a man’s world and I cannot live [...]
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