coffee

A nice cup of coffee and a good chat with my girlfriends….I wish I could just call someone any time any day and meet up for a coffee. Not for a drink in a busy smelly pub I’ve done that a lot the past 5 years,.
A tiny café with small tables, big slices of chocolate cake, and a milky coffee!
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Homesick

(Photo Man Ray:Tears 1932)

I am listening to the Greek radio and I feel Homesick. I know that when I am home I missing you, my independence and our comfy double bed. But now I am here and I am missing my familly, the noise of the city, the language and the security I feel around the people I know.

I wish I could take you with me to the big city and have all the people that I love close to me.

Bottlenose

(Photo:The Guardian)
Nobody could believe it! The bottlenose whales inhabits the Atlantic where they can dive to depths of 1.000 meters, hunting squid, and remaining submerged for up to 2 hours. So imagine how the poor creature felt trapped in the brown waters of the Thames. I was really hoping that the Marine Life Rescue would be able to save him/her. They said that it looked scared and stressed that was old and you could see a grey scar on the left of its black head.

Last night I heard on the radio that the whale did not make it he/she die as they were trying to save her. …


Euan Ferguson joined the crowds on a poignant day by the Thames

Sunday January 22, 2006
The Observer

Just before noon, at 11.53, I saw the dorsal fin burst out again, but facing east, towards the sea. Had London's whale sensed the sudden turn in the tide and started swimming against the (now incoming) tide, as whales do, and would it make it?

The answer was very soon no. For the next five minutes the whale was in danger of beaching - Tannoy calls came from the coastguard warning crowds away from the shingle's edge - and just before noon it grounded and the worries began, the floats and the cranes and the manhandling.

And the crowds began arriving, in true force - the banks of the Thames can never have been busier. Nobody could see much, but the mood was friendly, not jostling; rescue workers below called up, at 2pm, for some hot drinks and the shouts were relayed by the crowd to the nearest houses.

And, hours later, partygoers in Battersea pressed their noses against pub windows to see the latest developments, the bad news and the end of a strangely gripping story. In a month or less we will have forgotten; but the day will surely serve as some kind of benchmark. In the last day or so lovers will have been taken, jobs will have been won and lost, novels begun, tears shed at funerals, new life conceived and, when asked can you remember when that happened, we can answer: I remember it well, because it was that day. The day a whale sailed through the middle of London; and the people of the city, rather than trying to hack it to death, came in their thousands and lifted it and tried their hardest to sail it back.

Winter Blues

According to a British psychologist, January 24 is the most depressing day of the year.

The terms Winter Depression or Winter Blues are used, especially when describing milder types of SAD.

What is SAD?

Animals react to the changing seasons with changes in mood, metabolism and behaviour and human beings are just the same. Most people find they eat and sleep slightly more in winter and dislike the dark mornings and short days. For some, however, symptoms are severe enough to disrupt their lives and to cause considerable distress. These people are suffering from SAD.

What causes it?

The problem stems from the lack of bright light in winter. Researchers have proved that bright light makes a difference to the brain chemistry, although the exact means by which sufferers are affected is not yet known. It is not a psychosomatic or imaginary illness.

But for all of those diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) ...good news: "Meet", a bar in London, has installed light boxes to cheer you up and serves non-alcoholic vitamin D enriched cocktails.

Protoxronia

Afou tsakothikame gia kanena dioro mias kai ego ixa sto mialo mou tin telia protoxronia eg: Kathomaste spiti, agalia ston kanape trome patatakia kai vlepoume aspromavres tenies...ade to poli poli na anigame kai mia sampania stis 12, eno ekinos protimai trelo parti 8 atomon se monokatikia kapou se mia koilada tis Oualias.
Gia alli mia fora me katafere .Ekso vrexi alla ego den to vazo kato tha isioso to malli kai as mou katsarosi mesa se 5 lepta. Krotao to Super Vidal Sasoon bistolaki mou kai skeftome: " Ti malakia kano, pao stixima oti to fagito tha ine..aniparkto, i parea vareti kai to domatio pou tha se valoun na kimithis xalia.." Ksero ksero pada ime aisiodoksi... Anyway forao tis sexy botes mou Kseris aftes pou exoun sxediasti idika gia na petixenis edoma stis gonies tou spitiou... aftes more tis miteres ....kano to stauro mou mias kai menoume se mia anifora pou prepi na exis" filaka aggelo" gia na katevis me takounia kai ksekiname gia to stathmo.
Tou Kratao moutra tha diavaso to vivlio mou kai tha paristano oti den ton ksero kathome stin apenadi thesi.....siga min katso dipla tou. Anigo to Vivlio mou kai vithizome mesa stis leksis. SE kapia stigmi Flash astrafti brosta mou, ton koitazo exi vgali tin psifiaki kai me vgazi fotografies. Oi kopeles dipla mou nomizoun oti ine trelos oti pragmatika den ton ksero, me koitazoun kai perimenoun na doun tis adidrasis mou. Adiaforo tis akouo na psithirizoun re si mipos ine kamia gnosti kai tin vgazi photografies?

Ftanoume Oulia perimenoume ekso apo to stathmo ton filo tou. Exi Mercedes to kenourgio modelo kseris more afto me ton aneto xoro brosta kai me tis klistofovikes thesis piso pou prepi na kopsi to podi sou apo to gonato kai kato gia na xoresis. Madepse pou kathisa...ne vre piso...Ti Gendleman kai malakies aftos na ine anetos kai ta ipolipa leptomeries.

Anyway ftanoume stin koilada benoume sto spiti opou me megali xara mirizo fagito yea!!!! I oikodespotisa ine apo ton kanada kai fiaxni mia sidagi pou exi mathi apo tin mama tis...den tha bo se leptomeries itan ena idos fondue opou psiname moni mas komatakia kreas i garides. itan poli nostimo alla perimenes 15 lepta gia na psithi kathe kommmati. Telika meta apo 3 ores kai eno exoume kataferi na fame 5 garides kai 6 komatakia kreas varethikame kai to riksame sto poto. Den boro na po apo pota ixame ta pada krasia , vodka, gin, sampania, baileys.

Na fadastis oti giro stis 12:30 o protos apo tous 8 epese gia ipno kommatia....meta apo misi ora eksafanistike kai o allos miname 6 ,oi ipolipoi kataferame kai miname orthioi mexri tis 3.30. kai i alithia ine oti den tou kradaga moutra pia. imoun toso methismeni pou oute me pirakse pou o enas tipos ixe ksaplosi sto krevati pou tha kimomastan. (Ton vgalame sto diadromo.)
To krevati mas itan fouskoto san kai afta ta sromata pou pernis stin paralia. mesa ston ipno kai sto methisi mou eniotha oti epipleo stin thalasa, to oniro mou itan toso alithino pou me ekane na niotho naftia...i mipos itan to poto.