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Returning Home to Greece: Climbers - creepers and twirlers

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Saturday, 22 February 2014. Climbers - creepers and twirlers. Climbers – creepers and twirlers. Putting up the main pergola. Arch for Roses half way down the Shady Walk. The shady walk was coming along when the two conifers, planted to be trained into an arch died one hot summer. Parthenocissus quinquefolia (five lobs). Parthenocissus tricuspidata (three lobs). I’ve ...

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Returning Home to Greece: Fruit Trees

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Sunday, 19 January 2014. Our guests, one in particular, know that a nut-cracking job awaits them on their holidays with us. But as a reward they take home a couple of bottles of fresh almonds. We crack the hard shell and store them in bottles, to be used in cooking, or toast them to eat raw. Some of the toasted nuts we mince to make nut butter. Our fig tree is quite tall, ...

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Returning Home to Greece: March 2015

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Saturday, 28 March 2015. The Seas Around Lemnos. The Seas Around Lemnos. Love of the Sea. Takis and the Mediterranean Sea. Takis with grand children in sea at Lemnos. Mount Athos seen from Lemno. The Immigrant and the Sea. My tangled thoughts long. For a broken past. Since the wilds of my youth. The Sea was part of me. Never out of reach. The escort of my reverie. I was bo...

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Returning Home to Greece: January 2015

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Saturday, 24 January 2015. It takes a little while to ‘re-familiarise’ when we move from one country to another and it’s always a little challenging. We need to re-immerse ourselves in Greek (or Australian) culture each time we migrate. The Flexibility of Language. But we all have our hates about modern language usage. And so on…. In Takis’ lifetime there was still s...

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Returning Home to Greece: Mediterranean Vegetables

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Friday, 17 January 2014. Fresh vegetables usually hold centre stage in the Greek kitchen, often harvested in the home vegetable patch and then transformed by olive oil and herbs to make wonderfully tasty dishes. European vegetables I knew well. Beans, Carrot, Celery, Lettuce, Onion, Silver Beet. Mediterranean vegetables I came to know. In this garden Anestis does some earl...

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Returning Home to Greece: February 2015

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Thursday, 26 February 2015. My Husband's Passion - Woodwork. My Husband’s Passion – Woodwork. He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. St Francis of Assissi (1181-1226), patron saint of animals and the environment, founded the Franciscan Order.

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Returning Home to Greece: June 2015

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Monday, 29 June 2015. In my last blog I posted the back streets and main street of Myrina, in this one I want to look at the public spaces of Myrina. Their public gardens, children’s playgrounds and large areas free for public use. The use of flowers and folliage plants in public spaces is a new venture. 65279;. Swings on the Beach. The mix of geology, geography and h...

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Returning Home to Greece: In Emerald a Winter Garden

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Returning Home to Greece. Restoring an old house and rediscovering Greece. Creative Living, Home, Travellers at Home, Travellers All. Saturday, 1 August 2015. In Emerald a Winter Garden. In Emerald a Winter Garden. Back in Lemnos Where the Sun Shines Hot. Vegetables at their peak in a Lemnos Garden. Still in Lemnos, our children and friends, looks hot! From The Dry Hot Summer Beauty of Lemnos. To the Cool Damp Winter Beauty of the Dandenong Ranges. Daffodil Lilies on a beach in Lemnos. It takes me about ...