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Dec.07.2011
Our sadly now lost Tigraki (Greek = Little Tiger) jumping at nothing just to show she could.
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Jan.20.2010
A STAR IN MY EYE
by Duane Preimsberger
Hardly anybody has a real small Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Star in their eye unless they happen to be a little bit nuts and so I can claim that status! It wasn’t anything that...
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Jan.13.2010
Oh dear... what a question. My favourite at any given moment depends on my mood:
patriotic = Kipling ('Arithmetic on the Frontier')
scientific = Chaucer ('Canon's Yeoman's Prologue')
romantic = Dowson ('Cynara')
depressed at Cretans' ill-treatment of animals = Marvel ('The Nymph Complaining for...
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Nov.04.2009
It is my first visit to Richard Brooks' Second-Hand Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye (for the geographically challenged that’s in Wales). Within five minutes I am lost in a nether world. A lifetime's browsing from Sydney via Singapore to Southampton has not prepared me for this...
Picture a substantial,...
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Sep.07.2009
Hunter kills forest ranger
A 56-year-old man from Amaliada in the Peloponnese was in detention yesterday after he allegedly shot two forest rangers, killing one and seriously injuring the second, when they warned him against hunting in a local forest.
The suspect is alleged to have opened fire on...
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Aug.30.2009
We have in Crete, when she feels like it, Aspro - a feral cat who took up residence with us a few years back. Yesterday, hearing a furious screaming in the olive grove at the rear of the house, I rushed out in time to catch a quite literal fight to the death between Aspro and, as I thought, a...
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Aug.30.2009
The first we knew of it, the 'one cubic' (local parlance for 1 cubic metre = 1000 litre) water tank in our garage ran dry. This is not an uncommon experience in Crete and the procedure is routine. We take a short drive, 100 yards up the 'main' road, turn left, 200 yards down the track to the fig...
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Aug.27.2009
Apart from the names, every word of what follows is true.
Background
First, understand that the events described took place on an island where almost every adult male owns illegal weapons, anything from leftover WW2 Luger pistols and Lee-Enfield service rifles to AK47s, where the favourite outdoor...
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Aug.26.2009
London, Summer 2007. Caffé Nero, South Kensington. I am enjoying an al fresco cappuccino with friends. The rain (this is London) has just stopped. Arrives a customer, tall, well-dressed, with soaking umbrella. At the café entrance he pauses to shake the rain from the umbrella - all over our table....
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About Ted
I’m a 70 year old British chess-paying entrepreneurial geek with interests in software & maritime intelligence, a Freeman of the City of London and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. These handicaps notwithstanding I have in recent years taken up...
Causes Ted Davison Supports
Médécins sans Frontieres [Doctors without Borders]
Various animal charities