Author: James Collins

On nothing in particular Odd the things you find. I just found one of my earplugs in the toilet. No idea how it got there. I also discovered recently that, whereas clothing sizes in China are very often two or three sizes smaller that they are here, in Thailand they seem to be three or…

Cat’s ears and passport After a fairly lengthy couple of posts, a shorter one as I am on a tight schedule today. There’s some kind of lunch to be cooked, a meeting planned at 3pm, even though it is at Mandeio’s café, and then an evening of nothing to get organised. The day (Tuesday) is…

Gossip So, the message is, don’t take bar gossip as face value. Apparently, the owner of the house that burned down was at home when the fire took hold, though neither he nor his dog was badly damaged and the fire started at the fireplace. Manos (Garden Studios/Fist Taverna) has offered both of them temporary…

Of flames and phones One of the things about living in a small community such as this is that you get to see and hear things at both ends of the joy spectrum. Over the weekend, I saw several very different sights, two of which were at opposing ends of that scale of pleasantness. (There…

Bakaliaros Skordalia We returned from our lunch at around 3.30 on Thursday afternoon, completely full up, warm (until we got home) and very happy. I took a few shots on the way up through the village, and down again, and then settled in for an evening with the godson, who was staying overnight as his…