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Flowers Can Ease the Pain

I think I’m at the lowest I’ve been in a long time and yet I should be at my happiest. Last Sunday I finally achieved my dream of moving to Cyprus to live and work. I’m sat writing this post overlooking Paphos and Coral Bay, it’s a balmy 82 degrees at seven o’clock in the evening [...]

Not Long ’til Cyprus Now – Living the Dream

It’s only eight weeks until I make the move I’ve wanted for the last twenty years or more. I’m moving to Cyprus!! I can remember being on holiday with my parents at 18 years old and enquiring at a bank in Ayia Napa if I could borrow to buy an apartment. It’s taken this long but [...]

How a Flower Said That True Love Never Dies

I was talking with a group of friends a few days ago and the subject turned to the break up of relationships. One of them had just split from her partner and was in need of comforting words. After a while, Celia, the oldest of us, broke in with a tale that left us open mouthed.

Fifteen [...]

Poetry and Flowers

It’s springtime across the northern hemisphere, maybe sooner for some than others, but there’s a great stirring in nature that tells us better days are here.

Alfred Lord Tennyson once said in his poem ‘Locksley Hall’

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove

In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of [...]