Paphos Life

(Curmudgeon on) thank you for that video, Dominic. I have never set foot inside a Jumbo and you have wonderfully confirmed exactly why I have always given it the cold shoulder. (Curmudgeon off)

why not buy it in powder form and mix half a teaspoon in a small quantity of water?

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Chaddy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:28 pm Devil I said my wife was born in February 1947,i,m a we bit older.Mmmmm,if my maths are correct you must be 89/90,,i raise my hat to you.Whats your secret if i may ask.

Go back to school! Your maths are atrocious. I'm 91!

Firefly wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:46 pm I was born in the February of 1947, I was informed that on that day, 25th, the sea froze in places.......I wonder why
Coincidence firefly,the wife was born 27th February.......1947

just a pair of wee bairns– I was already a well qualified teenager then: I left school the following year!

Wow,thats a lot of snow.Is anyone reading this old enough to have been around in the worst winter last century in the UK 1947.I remember as a boy we could not get out of our house for 3/4 days...Check it out on you tube. Yes, I was a 15 year old schoolboy at the time. Of course, we didn't have tele...

The article isn't on Facebook, it is on this website. However, I had forgotten to add the correct link to it, which is why you had a problem. If you click on it now it will work. Thanks, Dominic. It is several years since I was last in the Paphos District. It has obviously changed a lot since then;...

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Sorry, Dominic, I can't view them as I don't subscribe to Facebook. Don't you think you may get better exposure if you post them as JPG's on this website?

if you think it is cold now, wait till winter starts!

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Many many years ago, being Scottish I was Presbyterian and a believer. I was living in Nicosia and didn't fancy going to the Anglican church so made enquiries and found that Presbyterian services were held in RAF Nicosia. As this was at the height of the "troubles", security was an issue a...

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okay, here's a factual question: in 1956, I legally bought three Cypriot artefacts from 800 to 1000 BCE. I took them to the Cyprus Museum which authentified them and put on lead seals on a length of scruffy string. This allowed me to legally export them (at the time). They then lived in Edinburgh, G...

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Firefly wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:13 pm 'The state of my knickers is not a subject for debate either.

why not?

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If they are sent back to Greece, does the UK lose its marbles?

the other 50% of the Parthenon marbles and been destroyed, mutilated or broken up for building material. I understood that the current state of the original marbles in situ is mainly a result of pollution from Athenian vehicles and chimneys. Chemically, marble is CaCO3, calcium carbonate, exactly t...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67551732 What is indisputable is that Lord Elgin was responsible for having had sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens removed and transported to Britain. They were exhibited in London in what is now called the British Museum, where they still are. The Greeks, w...