http://aggregator.vasilakism.gr/ Vasilakism Συναθροιστής » Jane's Vrahassi Gregarius 0.6.0 en http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-tuesday-we-were-in-rethymnon-little.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:55:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-tuesday-we-were-in-rethymnon-little.html
On Tuesday we were in Rethymnon, a little unexpected trip to pick up a parcel in Vamos. The Nomad depot doubles with the shop of the English butcher, John. We returned with cumberland sausage, cold roast ham, and home cured bacon, plus the parcels of course. ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-wonderful-sunday.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-wonderful-sunday.html
David and I had a wonderful Sunday. First we met friends for coffee in Neapolis and then on to Milatos for lunch with some other friends. Milatos, was a very relaxing place to be for our day out. My only gripe with the scenery, is the concrete shapes that make the harbour. How much more pleasing to the eye natural stone is. I am sure the designers of Milatos harbour have provided a very functional wall, and a very safe harbour, it is just my little gripe! I might even have a boat in there one day. ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/agios-fanourios-27-august.html Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:37:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/agios-fanourios-27-august.html
It is tradition, on this day, to make a special cake to put inside the church. The cake should have 9 ingredients: 1 glass orange juice, 1 glass sugar, 1 glass oil, pinch salt, cinnamon, ground cloves, walnuts, sultanas and flour.

If you have lost something, then you must make a cake and take it into the church where you will ask Agios Fanourios to help you find it. I wrote a little poem when one of my neighbours lost her ring, she made a cake, took it to the church, said a prayer and that night, even though she had turned the house upside down, gone through all the rubish and was about to lift the floorboards, she opened the bread bin to take out some bread for supper, and there was the ring. She said she had washed the bread bin out whilst looking for her ring, and that Agios Fanourios had answered her prayer.

Agios Fanourios if you please
Return to me my ring
And if you do, I promise you
That to the church I'll bring
A cake with nine ingredients
Especially for you
So please Agios Fanourios
Make my wish come true

Ooh! Makes yer wonder doesn't it? ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/jills-birthday-at-taverna-in-sissi.html Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:41:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/jills-birthday-at-taverna-in-sissi.html
I always seem to be battling with Greek noise! Will people never be quiet for a moment? We spent a lovely afternoon in Sissi yesterday. Jill's gathering was lovely, it was very nice to see people we hadn't seen for ages. And it didn't stop there. At about 3 p.m. Pete and Cindy arrived, the bride and groom, just married in Agios Nikolaos. Being invited as their guest also, we simply swapped tables and carried on having fun.

So, Happy Birthday Jill, and Congratulations Pete and Cindy, Happiness Always, Love Jane x ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/traditional-house-in-vrahassi.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:45:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/traditional-house-in-vrahassi.html
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When bus drivers trough their spaghetti
They don’t use much etiquetti,
They shovel it in, dribbling oil over chin,
And grow more obese and more sweaty.

While looking for no-show slips
I came across other odd bits,
And to my surprise they were quite a large size,
Now I wonder which driver they fits.

There’s a driver, we all call him Elvis,
His head is much bigger than pelvis,
But if inches you seek, though it may take a week,
His wick, they do say, more than 12 is.

When a driver is ready for action,
He proves to be quite an attraction,
For he has the right gear with an exit to rear,
And firestone with just the right traction

There once was a driver called John,
Who polished his bus till it shone,
He rubbed it each day, and some they do say,
That its lustre is second to none

Most drivers I know are quite calm,
They wouldn’t do anyone harm,
But the language they spout when they curse and they shout
Reminds me of Animal Farm

Some drivers with long legs you’ll find,
Are usually most courteous and kind,
And, truth to tell they’re as sexy as hell
Especially where legs meet behind

Some drivers they drive with no fear,
The highway they’ve made their career,
Like knights of the road they ferry their load
As though on some far planisphere.

When a driver says ‘taka-taka,’
I think of a man with on knacker,
He’s usually Greek and unwashed for a week
And the answer I give is, ‘Malaka.’

There once was a driver called Josh,
Who said jolly-dee golly-gosh,
I’m sporting a tash and I’m ready to flash,
But I can’t find my old mackintosh.

O Manolis offered a bed,
In the rear of his bus, he said,
But I looked at his kecks and I knew he meant sex,
So I told him I’d rather be dead.

At the water park drivers will drool
At teenagers just out of school,
And some of them long for a tart in a thong,
Even though it’s against the rule

A tart with a bare posterior,
Thought she was oh so superior,
But her pink cellulite was a terrible sight,
And it moved like an old spring interior

Have a good summer all you reps out there. I've done that, got the T-shirt!
Love Jane x ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/so-hot-i-cant-go-outside.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:47:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/so-hot-i-cant-go-outside.html

It has been such a busy time since then, I have been getting my poetry ready to make into a proper collection. I have also been re-writing my first collection, A Year in Glenridding. It is out of print now and I thought to re-vamp it. The village is quietening after the holiday visitors but it is still busy in the evenings down in the square. Work continues with the paving, it's a bit of a struggle using some roads but a small price to pay for the benefit of lovely pathways through the village. And it is still very hot. Still it is August and not really a surprise. I was listening to radio Cumbria today, and they were saying that it was raining. At the same time I was writing what I had written in 1993 when we lived there: 'It is August, the rainy season in the Lake District, it has rained every day throughout the month.' I had to laugh, because of the rain I could not go out, so I had chance to write, and because of the extreem heat here, it is impossible to sit outside so the result is the same. I can sit at my computer and work.
I also listen to radio Leicester, I like the Tony Wadsworth show, midday. I was all set to listen to him live in Skegness when I was summoned to a bookshop in Xersonissos to show them my book. They put it on their shelves. The bookshop across from Halkiadakis supermarket. Anyway, worth missing Skegness for I think.
I just love these pictures that I took at Milatos last week, the light was not good but they captured the moment.
Tomorrow I will try to get my article about 'Erotoctritos' onto my webpage. Knights in armour, love, passion, ah the stuff that life is made of! Hope you are all having a good August. Join me on facebook (I don't play games) but enjoy the social contact with so many people. Oh, and thank you for watching my blog, if you have any ideas as to what I should write about on here, let me know. Meanwhile I'll get out there tomorrow and take some more pictures. Love to all, Jane x ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/they-were-all-my-children-play-by.html Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:19:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/they-were-all-my-children-play-by.html


THEY WERE ALL MY CHILDRENA PLAY BY ARTHUR MILLERTheatre in Sissi - at the school - 9 p.m. 29th August - Don't miss it!
ΘΕΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΣΙΣΙ
ΤΗΝ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 29-8-2010 ΚΑΙ ΩΡΑ 9 μ.μ. ΣΤΟ ΔΗΜ. ΣΧΟΛΕΙΟ ΣΙΣΙΟΥ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ Ε.Θ.Ο.Α.Ν. Η ΘΕΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΗ « ΗΤΑΝ ΟΛΟΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΜΟΥ » του Άρθουρ Μίλερ.ΧΟΡΗΓΟΣ : ΝΟΜΑΡΧΙΑΚΗ ΑΥΤΟΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΗ ΛΑΣΙΘΙΟΥ.ΕΙΣΟΔΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΙΑΚΟΣ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΣΙΣΙΟΥΗ

Ερασιτεχνική Θεατρική Ομάδα Αγίου Νικολάου παρουσιάζει στο Σίσι ένα από τα αριστουργήματα της παγκόσμιας δραματουργίας : " Ήταν όλοι τους παιδιά μου " του Άρθουρ Μίλερ.Ο πρόεδρος της ΕΘΟΑΝ και ένας εκ των πρωταγωνιστών του έργου Κωστής Κεφαλούκος δήλωσε μεταξύ άλλων σε συνέντευξη του στην εφημερίδα ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗ ότι το συγκεκριμένο έργο επελέγη γιατί δεν πρόκειται απλά για ένα δράμα . Αυτό το έργο προκαλεί στο θεατή σύνθετες σκέψεις , προβληματισμούς και έχει στοιχεία αρχαίας τραγωδίας που μεταφέρονται από το συγγραφέα του με τη σύγχρονη γραφή στο σήμερα , αν και γράφτηκε το 1947. Το έργο ανεβαίνει σε σκηνοθεσία του Γιάννη Ξανθογεώργη. Τους ρόλους ερμηνεύουν με την σειρά που εμφανίζονται οι : Γρηγόρης Πρωτοψάλτης (Φρανκ), Μανώλης Απιδιανάκης (Τζιμ), Μανώλης Σγουρός (Τζο Κέλλαρ), Γωγώ Ζερβού (Σιού) , Σοφία Κοκολάκη (Λύντια ) , Κωστής Κεφαλούκος (Κρις Κέλλαρ) , Γιώρος Ρουσόγλου (Μπερτ) , Μαριάνθη Μενεγάκη (Κέιτ Κέλλαρ) , Αντη Αργυράκη (Άννυ) , και Δημήτρης Χατζηφωτεινός ]]> http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-exhibition-in-neapolis-august-9-22.html Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:18:00 +0300 http://vrahassi.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-exhibition-in-neapolis-august-9-22.html Local artist Jane Vogas was very happy at the opening of her art exhibition which took place last Monday evening. With another week to run there is still time for you to see her beautiful paintings and pottery work. Also exhibiting are members of Jane's pottery class. The exhibition is being held in the old gymnasio, next to the big church in the centre of Neapolis. You can pop in between 12 and 2 in the afternoon, or else between 6 and 10 in the evenings. Whilst you are there visit the other rooms where there are photographic displays, painted glass, and a room devoted to antique costumes and home furnishings. There is certainly plenty going on round and about this August.














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