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• Ain't random grand? 2 weeks ago When I first clapped eyes on him half a lifetime ago, romance was the last thing on my mind.I was newly arrived in Greece, for a six-month stint as a holiday rep on the island of Samos (or so I thought). Little did I know that the bloke with the lop-sided grin of Bruce Willis (who still had hair...
• Identity crisis 4 weeks ago Who am I? How did the core of me come to be? How much am I influenced by surroundings and events? What makes me tick? After nearly a quarter of a century of almost total immersion in Greek society, why are some aspects of me still so utterly English? And why, when visiting my old haunts, do some...
• Weighing the odds 1 month ago Today, I took a brave step back into territory I haven’t dared enter for more than three years.I weighed myself.It’s something I’ve assiduously avoided for a long time. I knew the numbers that it blinked back at me – even stark naked, with newly-shorn hair and after a visit...
• Everybody's an expert - 'til there's work to be done 2 months ago What springs to mind when you think of a ‘creative type’? A chain-smoking renegade (at least in their own little universe) who refuses to play by the rules and flaunts their tardiness for carefully-planned meetings (‘cos they were ‘caught up in the muse, man’)? A...
• In praise of Hair Majesty 2 months ago We live in the Age of Me. An era in which women are finally claiming their right to “Me Time” in which we stop stressing out about work, soothing the Other Half during his latest bout of Man Flu, making a mental itinerary of how empty the fridge is or how full the laundry basket, and...

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