tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61910123360772955692024-02-18T21:55:23.147-08:00Returning Home to Greecerestoring an old house and rediscovering GreeceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01241944859707179734noreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191012336077295569.post-47620114880107610222016-02-15T22:42:00.000-08:002016-02-15T22:42:00.451-08:00A Full Life at Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In one of my last blogs I wrote that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d not been able to find much free time
to write a blog since the Christmas and the New Year. And it looks like I may find that 'finding the time' continues to get harder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For those of you who do like catching up with my peripatetic Greek-Australian life, I’ll probably take up writing blogs about it again, slowly at first, but with more energy when I get back to Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Here are some reasons for my absence from the blogsphere.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">And, always when in Melbourne we find ourselves was caught up in family events. Some involved entertaining here at our home. Others, because schools in Australia have their long summer holiday in January involved having grandchildren to stay. Both these activities take time and energy, but are filled with joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One trip with grand daughters involved going to a farm where you pick your own fruit. It was blueberry time and we brought bags full home and made blueberry filled meringues. </div>
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We have made some good friends since moving to Emerald. This summer we've taken trips out with some, to some nearby sights, or spent time at home having a BBQ or just coffee and chat.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then on top of that I've just run a children’s dance/drama workshop here in Emerald. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The story was a fantasy, very lightly based on the history of this area for in the early days gold was found near Emerald. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The children acted out a hold-up by bushrangers who stole the gold a family had found when gold panning. The gold was on its way to a bank in Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the big time waster is my writing. I’ve been trying to finish the first
draft of a whodunit (a cosy mystery) I’ve set in Lemnos. This takes hours and hours and I’ve been doing
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Past
and Present Learning Curves</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: magenta; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Learning
Curves</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thinking
of the New Year and what I would like to accomplish in 2016 has got me thinking
of past years and some the learning curves I’ve dealt with, more or less
successfully, in order to successfully carry out my life. There have been many.
I suppose that most important have been those learning curves that I’ve dealt
with for work; these involve teaching, lecturing and academic study and
research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
now that I’ve retired I do not need to put as much thought into those aspects
of my life any more, though they do still enhance my life, and make me who I
am. However, picking two current learning curves, that make life right now more
livable and pleasant, I thought I’d share something about those that are
ongoing, and have to do with weather, and gardening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
you age you may want to return to a place where you can once again feel ‘at
home’ with the weather. I was born in England, a very wet damp place. But, this
damp wet weather encouraged beautiful green hills and wonderful gardens, and it
was not damp and wet all year, so when seasonal changes interrupted this usual
weather they were so much appreciated – winter snow, spring flowers, the odd
day of lazy summer warmth, the colours of autumn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I now
feel most ‘at home’ here in Australia or in Greece when the temperature is
around 20, and when it is over 25 I almost expire!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takis,
on the other hand, was born in Alexandria, and he now feels most ‘at home’ when
the temperature is around 25 and over. He also does not mind heat and humidity,
as it was often very humid in Alexandria. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
joint learning curves have been to learn to adapt to a lifestyle that includes
hot Greek summers, and cold winters when we are in this part of Australia in
August. This has resulted in looking for a house in Australia with a good
heating system for Takis, and limiting our exposure to Greek summers to only
July, plus putting an air-conditioner in the bedroom. It’s a compromise that
works, however that doesn’t mean we still don’t complain at times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: magenta; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Learning
Curves and Gardening People</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are things that you learn from books and magazines. And I’m right now enjoying
a Gardening Magazine subscription my daughter in law gave me for xmas. Lots to
learn there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
there are things to be learnt from gardening clubs. I belong to a local
Australian garden club, and I enjoy their knowledgeable speakers, and the
Mediterranean Garden Society that has been inspiring (though often due to my
peripatetic lifestyle it’s hard to keep a up continuous connection with these).
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But,
what I’d like to emphasis are those aspects of gardening I’ve benefited from by
having worked alongside two gardening people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isn’t
it true that sharing is often the best way to learn? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mhJ09qBfZ0OGP5fes7DRcBJ0_EWu2gvFWpHMd0fsKqoxMFMZcCwArpGXy7Yj69RnC2pQlQNGvG34bktIyxW-dmtMRMAc_nsyC3DLr6LuAR6vraRzjQzJJV9Zod52hM72KfZwpEL-RLyL/s1600/imgres.jpg8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mhJ09qBfZ0OGP5fes7DRcBJ0_EWu2gvFWpHMd0fsKqoxMFMZcCwArpGXy7Yj69RnC2pQlQNGvG34bktIyxW-dmtMRMAc_nsyC3DLr6LuAR6vraRzjQzJJV9Zod52hM72KfZwpEL-RLyL/s400/imgres.jpg8.jpg" width="400" /></a></span><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anestis in Greece <o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
think its been hard for Anestis to work alongside a woman, but in the end I
think we have managed to share and learn from each other. Though, as I’ve
written before, this experience has been limited by my lack of Greek. But I
have learnt not to fuss about each weed, to clear the lot quickly and then work
on the cleared patch and I’ve learnt how to water different, pouring water on
every third day in very hot weather to encourage deep rooting. And Anestis had
learnt more about mulching and composting, that you don’t have to only use
sheeps dung, but can keep garden clippings and seaweed, and sawdust and they
rot down, and that you can use dried out weeds as mulch around trees and pine
needles around strawberry plants as mulch in summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isabel in Australia<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
I began my Australian garden on ½ an acre there were some plants that were
there to shape the garden around, but the back yard was a large weedy slope. I
needed help to do some heavy work and found a lady who had a wonderful garden
of her own, and who was ready to help me. She has now become a good friend. She
has taught me a lot, about plants that love this are too much and take over and
become weeds, (Japanese Anemones, Morning Glory, Euphorbia, etc). And fortunately
we speak the same language. Actually, not just English, but the same gardening
language, as we both like the same style of gardening. This has helped a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
perhaps the lesson to learn from this is you need to be able to adapt to
survive.</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Adapting
to others preferences, sharing our own, making compromises, finding joys in
aspects of life that are different and we might not find ‘at home’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something
we might have to do more of this year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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since the New Year began. The reason? I’ve been caught up in family events,
many of which involve travelling an hour into the city or entertaining here in
our home in the Hills behind Melbourne. Both these activities take time and
energy. And, then on top of that, I’ve set myself a goal of finishing a rough
draft of a book I’m writing, to send off to some friends. So, every spare hour
or so I’ve been rushing to my computer to do that writing rather than the blog.</span></div>
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contemplated what subject I’d write about on my next blog, when I got around to
it. I could write about New Year resolutions, but that seemsda bit irrelevant
at my age. I can imagine younger people making resolutions, as the New Year
will be a blank to be filled, but for me it is more of the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">BUT, then I thought, no, I am making plans,
which involve resolutions, though, entwined within these resolutions are also
Aims (to extend what I was previously doing) and Hopes (that my activities
would not be curtailed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus here they are, my Resolves, Aims,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I will be again preparing this house in
Australlia to leave for three months before going to Greece, and when we arrive
there, I will be preparing the Greek house to receive us and the guests we
expect this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Meanwhile I will be endeavoring to keep
in touch with friends and family in Australia before we leave, and get in
contact again when we return. And, I will make sure that we manage to meet a
few folk in Athens and Rhodes, and on Lemnos while we are in Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Within all this activity I have some new
directions I want to pursue. as I find this aspect of my writing often the most
exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">After I’ve finished writing my mystery
novel (about a mystery on the island of Lemnos) I know I’ll be editing and
doing all that stuff, but, I also want to start drafting a second mystery,
using the same heroine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A few people have said they’d like to
know what happened later, after the end of my travel/social book about
renovating in Lemnos, so I’ve been considering that too. I’m thinking of
comparing the two villages, Myrina and Emerald, their people and local
activites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(Takis too has some new directions he is
planning – his island marmalade plan – and I’ll have to work around that
activity too.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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might get some of it done, BUT, as you know, the world continues to rotate
around the sun, and as they say ‘stuff happens’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So, thinking about this, and how it could
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus, I resolve not to be distracted by
Prideful Politics or the Pestilent Press. This is difficult, as it’s such a
temptation to look at the news on my computer, before I start sending off
emails or opening up my writing files. One answer is to strongly resolved not
to do so. And, it can’t do any harm to HOPE that we do not have so many
prideful politicians and pestilent journalists this year!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then there is the weather. This is
definitely something that impacts on ones’ activities. I hope and pray for good
weather, for me and for you all. We can direct such pleas to God, but also to
the politicians as global warming increases. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tornadoes (and thus, no burnt out homes, no water surging through our houses,
and not falling trees that smash our cars and the power lines) is something that
we can’t just leave to the Politicians and God. We have to do our small bit –
recycling, planting more trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">A Walk into the New Year</span></h2>
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The hills that are beginning to bleach, while green still holds sway into the distance</h3>
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The spaces which are maintained for our pleasure</h3>
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This is the time of year that the television is full of 'that-is-the-year-that-was' programs, or 'this-is-the-year-to-come' shows. I too am pondering the immediate past (25 for xmas lunch - successful even though the temperatures rose to 33); and the longer past (3 months in Greece and 7 months here in Australia).<br />
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This week, between Christmas and New Year, offers a time between 2015 and 2016 to ponder the year gone and the one to come. </div>
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It is also a time when most Australians leave the towns and drive off to holiday in some seaside town or other but some come to the hills.</div>
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Here in Emerald you find B&Bs and holiday-lets</h3>
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And though many have left for the beaches the village is still welcoming visitors.</h3>
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For us our 'holiday' is taken when we travel from one home to another, from one village to another. We move between the green hills and tall trees in Emerald to the Greek island where the hills are bare and the trees stunted, but, the seas sparkle all around.<br />
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Many local homes are blessed with huge trees, and distant views</h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">But right now we are in Emerald. This place is fast becoming my 'home' village now that I have lived here and experienced all the seasons. I have come to love those aspects that are particular and unique to this place - often very different to those aspects that make Lemnos special. </span></h3>
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And as I walked today I thought again of some other aspects I appreciate in this place, its history and the care taken by residents and council to keep it still a little jewel of a place.</h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Accommodating</span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Variety</span> in my Australian </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;">arden</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">If we
become gardening philosophers we can see the world in our gardens, and it would be nice to think that we can also
learn how to better live in the world about us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Some time ago I wrote something about how plants that are newcomers arrive in gardens, be they encouraged
immigrants or unexpected or even unwanted arrivals. Just recently I've started thinking
about the way the gardener accommodates their various plants and makes room for them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">These thoughts came after my last blog about our recent multi-cultural lunch! I began to think that a garden
is very much like that dinner party with various ‘cultures’ represented in it.
And then, after watching a series on TV about the place of four English Gardens
in time and history, I got thinking about how I as a gardener manage to
integrate plants from other places into my garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The sunken terrace close to the house is my 'theatre', a place that we look out on and I decorate more dramaticly. </h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I've realised its all about sun, position and water. In my Emerald Garden I basically place plants in places on the garden block in relation to how much
sun or how little sun they’ll get as even the sunnies spot only gets 5 hours of sun. But I also note how much shelter they'll get from the strong winds, and how much water I’m able to give them in
that position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Half way down the garden is an arch, covered with clamatis, that divides the areas I water from those I don't.</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">My
garden taps are fed from a large water tank, and the taps are close to the house. So
plants that need a lot of sun, but also a lot of water (vegetables, and most
flowers for picking) are in a sunny spot where they will get about 5 hours of sun, but also where my hose can reach them. </span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Herbs
are in a raised bed, again in very sunny spot, but though close to the tap I give
them very little water. </span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">These
are the accommodations I’ve made for plants that come from a variety of places and climates. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">These do best in my garden in Emerald if I place them where there is...</span></span></h3>
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Sun</span></span></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">A. In
a level and open setting close to water <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Flowers
for picking: Dahlias from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Mexico</span>, Irises from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Greece</span>, Carnations from the
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Mediterranean</span>, Chrysanthemums from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Asia</span>, Lemons and Oranges from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Australia and
Asia, </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My Picking Garden</h4>
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Vegetable Beds</h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">B. In
a level and open setting near the house but given little water</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Herbs
and other <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Mediterranean</span> plants: oregano, sage, thyme, bay, rosemary, and cistus.
From <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Africa </span>Crocosmia, and from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Europe </span>lavender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And Herb Garden</h4>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Morning
Sun</span></span></u></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">A. In
a sheltered and sloping position next to the wall of the house, and given quite
a of water. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Peonies
and Liriope muscari from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Asia</span>, Pineapple lilies from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Ease Africa</span>, and
nasturtiums from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">America. </span>And in another narrow bed, <o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Fuchsias from the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Caribbean</span></span></div>
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Fuschias</h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">B
With no water in a bed a long way from the house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Acanthus
from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Greece,</span> Agapanthus from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">South Africa</span>, Bougainvillea from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">South America</span>, daffodils
from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Europe</span>, Geranium and Pelargoniums from the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Mediterranean</span>, Arum lilies from
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">South Africa</span>, plus a number of native<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> Australian </span>bushes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Salvias</h4>
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Geraniums plus Arum lilies etc.</h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Afternoon
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">A. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Narrow bed next to a fence, partially
shaded and given quite a lot of water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Climbing
roses from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Asia</span>, Camellias from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Asia. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This was once a carport.</h4>
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Hopefully soon a rose bower!</h4>
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Never watered, agapanthus, and even some orchids</h4>
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When this area wilts I give it a little water</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">B. But under tall trees at the end of the garden the plants only have water in their first year. </span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Tree Ferns and Mint bushes from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Australia</span>, Japanese Maples and Japanese Anemones from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">China and Japan</span>, Hart’s Tongue ferns Asia, Silver Birch from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Europe</span>.</span></h4>
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This is not the right position for a day lily!</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 19px;">And I'm still finding that some are uncomfortable just there, and may need to be moved into more, or less sun, or given more water or protection. Its an interesting job keeping them all happy.</span></h4>
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And these early irises have to be moved away from the path</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">While these plants are experimentally placed where I might have a sheltered fernery one day!</span></h3>
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</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Multi-Cultural </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Xm</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">as</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Lunch</span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Takis and I have just met up with a group of friends
from Emerald. These are folk we’ve known for the last four years and though we
might bump into each other in the village and perhaps we go to the same functions
we make a habit of meeting up at least four times a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all began because on of the friends
we met when we first moved to this Australian village expressed sadness that
she no longer met with her old friends for a good discussion as most had moved
away from this area. I suggested we start up a new group and we decided to
include a few people that we both knew. And as for a ‘good discussion’ we would
only allow talk about those aspects of life polite society banned, sex,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Various
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try to add a new couple at each get-together to add spice and freshness to the
debates. But really we hardly need any newcomers as those seven represent such
varied backgrounds. Though we are all Australians we are all immigrants. None
of us was born in Australia; four came in their twenties and two when only
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of Greek parents, and two of us are from England. But we have all been here
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matters all banned subjects, the conversations can be very lively. We may all
be considered ‘lefties’ but do not always agree with Labor politics, and
certain we have different views about the actions of our current Liberal
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We meet in each other’s homes. And really with the
sort of spread laid on we could not afford the place that would offer us that
kind of glorious food, or a padded room to ourselves where we can shout
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It was great fun, as usual, but what I really want to tell you about this lunch is that it was a time when we shared, and we argued. This is what can be
great about multiculturalism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We were willing to share. I asked them all to bring
along a quote, joke, a poem, a personal story about Christmas. Some of the
jokes we did not all ‘get’ as humour does not always readily cross cultural
lines. But stories of personal experience we all sympathised with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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xmas pud., etc.) even though not all of us had these memories, in fact for some in
their places of origin Christmas was not a big celebration and New Year and
Easter were more celebrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And we were willing to disagree. Some of our arguments
were about how the new government in Australia was doing, how best to integrate
‘Anglos’ and ‘Aboriginals’, and whether the ‘West’ had brought the ‘Muslim
Problem’ on themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">While newcomers often want to share something special
about their culture often they are not willing to take the next step in integration, that of expressing an idea even if the
other person disagrees. And then not just listening to the disagreement but being willing to try
and explain the idea in words the other might better understand. And, not only
explaining, willing to take on the chin the laughter that might ensue, about
something that still sounds strange to the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Greeks
in Melbourne</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Melbourne in Victoria is a
Greek </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">cultural center in Australia. And
there is more than one area in this city where Greeks congregate.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lonsdale Street</span> </span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">in the city centre. This is an area that runs adjacent to
Melbourne Chinatown on Little Bourke Street. According to the 2001 Australian
census Melbourne has the largest Greek Australian population in Australia and
indeed it has the largest population of Greeks of any city in the World -
outside of Greece. <span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The
annual Melbourne Antipodes Festival is held on Lonsdale Street one week in
March and has been held since 1987. The festival is renowned for its Lonsdale
Street "Glendi" (Greek for "party") - a weekend-long event
that is held to coincide with the Greek National Day on the 25<sup>th</sup>
March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">An annual
Greek Film Festival is also held in Melbourne over two weeks in September, and
has been held since 1990. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">However recently Greek community life has dispersed from Lonsdale Street
to the suburbs and a number of Greek cafes have closed down in this street. To
counter this trend recently a Greek entrepreneur built a $15 million, 15-storey
beacon of Hellenism on the site of the original three-level headquarters of
Melbourne's oldest and biggest Greek community organisation. Papastergiadis said
it was important to ‘maintain a central, visible presence as a symbol of a
mature, diverse and successful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">migrant community that has become part of the city's cultural fabric.’ </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He added that, ‘During the Lonsdale Street Festival we get 100,000
people through here over two days. The prime minister last year said it was the
biggest street festival in Australia, and half the attendees are not Greek.’</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Also in the city, as poster boy of the Greek community, is Chef George Colombaris. The Press Club and Gazi are two of his restaurants. He has done a lot to help raise the profile of Greek cuisine in this city. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Oakleigh</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">is one of those suburbs where Greeks now congregate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Oakleigh<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is 15 km southeast of Melbourne's
central business district. In the 2011 census Oakleigh had population of 7,535. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">Once a
large independent city, Oakleigh was absorbed into Melbourne as part of the
eastward expansion of the metropolis in the 1950s. As a result, it once had its
own large historic municipal buildings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
area’s strong Greek cultural influence is largely due to the influx of Greek immigrants
to Australia in the mid-20th century. Fourteen per cent of those now living in
this suburb speak only Greek at home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Evidence of Greek cultural influence can
be found in the football club, Oakleigh Cannons, established in 1972 by Greek
immigrants. Further evidence of Greek cultural influence can be found in the
Greek Orthodox church of Agio Anargyroi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Plus a very strong presence of Greeks from Lemnos!</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Thus this area
contains many older commercial buildings including banks and retail complexes
dating back to the early days of the city. But it is the cafes on Eaton Street,
which is a pedestrian mall that most visitors come to visit. The thriving
shopping district has an abundance of Greek butchers, bakeries, beauty salons,
and specialty shops selling Greek sweets, but more and more there are shops
representing other ethnic groups – Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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important shopping and eating area for Takis and me. We drive there at least
once a month to stock up on Mythos, Greek beer, and Greek cheeses. And while
there we are sure to have a souvlaki or a coffee and Galtibouriko. We have just
now returned from stocking up with Greek goodies prior to Xmas!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">A
Busy Time of Year</span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Writing
and Other Projects</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">One reason I’m taking out time and not doing two blogs a week is that it takes time
from my writing schedule. At the moment I’m writing a whodunit about Lemnos. I’m
finding this great fun and hopefully it will be finished soon so I’m trying to
get most of it finished before Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Its
set in the year just before Syriza was elected, and a time when folk in Greece
knew that great changes were ahead but could not guess what they were. But I
won’t say anything about these ongoing writing projects, as I feel to talk
about them too early is bad luck. (Am I becoming Greek, with a belief about the
evil eye?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">Library
Talks</span></span></h4>
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Takis also signs the books as the story is as much about him as me.</h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I’ve
mostly done these in the form of an interview, with my Emerald friend and
teacher of a writing group asking the questions. She’s read the book and can
prompt me, letting me ramble on for a while and then bringing me back to what
she thinks the audience would like to know about the book. We cover the main
stories of the retirement adventure, the house renovation (including those
about mice, hidden fireplaces and discovery of the well.) I included a slide
show as folk gather for nibbles and buy books after the talk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Club Talks</span></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Recently I’ve also done some garden talks (with slides) of the garden in Lemnos, and of the Lemnian natural flora. I’ve really enjoyed this last venture, into talks for garden clubs. They are great folks and very curious about gardening situation overseas, as well as fascinated by tales of other people’s gardens.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Before picture of Pergola</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">After picture of Pergola</td></tr>
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slides however are the main feature when giving the garden talk. I chat while
the slides are showing. I have three slide shows that follow each other. One
shows plants seen on walks through the island early and later in the year.
Another about the planning and setting out of our garden and the last showing
the house and garden today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I tell folk that I’ve found its not always easy being a gardener
in the Mediterranean. As I tried to point out one ‘Med’ place is often very
different from another. On Lemnos the problem is not just of the hot dry
summers, that can extend for three or even four moths, but the frosts and
winter snowfalls, and also the very strong winter winds, which mean a root
system is weakened and a plant that looks OK suddenly dies as the weather
warms. And I tell folks that the plants I use in Greece are survival
plants, found along roadsides, or plants that do well in neighbour’s gardens.
Nursery plants I often have to replace year after year.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I tell
them …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">There
were a few trees in the garden when we arrived, olive, almond, bitter orange (naranzi),
fig. Most of the almond trees were very old and have since died of old age. The
olives and figs survive well. The orange, though old and tough, nearly died one
cold winter BUT it may be coming back And as we use bitter oranges to make
marmalade I’ve planted another two trees, hoping they survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">While
island nurseries are limited in their ‘Mediterranean’ offerings I’ve
bought pomegranate, pine, box, rose, bougainvillea, citrus, agapanthus,
bottlebrush, lantana, gaura, wisteria, yucca, fan palm and agave. Some of these
do not survive the winter cold, especially the bougainvillea, though I have one
of the hardy purple variety in a very sheltered corner and even if cut back by
the cold so far it has regrown. The lantana too is cut back by the cold
but often revives. I’ve had to retry lemons several times!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">But that
plants from the roadsides do well, like euphorbia, hemlock, daffodil lilies,
oleander, obviously they can cope with the summer and winter weather but when
put in a garden situation they can take over! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">However
mostly I check out what was doing well in other gardens and asked for cuttings
or roots. I got my, honeysuckle, rosemary, bay, Iris, canna lilies, pampas
grass, jasmine, basil, pittosporum, Virginia creeper, lilac, pelagonium and
grapes in this manner.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">And
then there are plants that I started with seeds, or have just arrived and
continue to self-seed. These I happily keep and include, fennel,
marigolds, pokeweed, zinnias, nasturtiums, alyssum and chamomile daisies.</span></div>
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then there is Christmas to Plan!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Another reason, I’m
afraid, my blogs are getting put on the back burner is that Christmas is drawing closer. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">In Greece Christmas is not
as important as Easter, and in America the importance of Thanksgiving means
that some of the business is taken away from Christmas. But here in Australia
Christmas is the BIG holiday. It falls at the beginning of the summer holiday.
It’s that time when works places close down for the long holiday and everyone
has Christmas parties. So Friends meet and exchange present, Families have to
decide who’s home will be the one that will be visited this year (often this
planning involves going to one family home in the morning and another in the
afternoon.)</span></div>
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have already done preliminary menus and had one early shopping expedition. I’m
pleased that Takis loves cooking, and so he’ll make a ham, and a roast lamb,
and a couple of fish dishes, for these various occasions. I really love the
traditional English Christmas pudding and cake but no one else in the family
does. But whether anyone else will eat them it would not be Christmas with out
mince pies and a trifle, so I’ll be making them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Putting
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">It’s now done! And if you want to read it </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">its now on Kindle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e-books! </span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just getting the book written about the
project took about three years. Getting it edited and formatted and published
another two years and quite a lot of money. Now getting it up on Amazon took
more money (for an e-Pub version) and more time (reading all Amazon’s
legalize). This e-version has 25 pictures included. I hope it is available in
your area as I tried to choose the offer that made the book available in most
countries rather than just those that Amazon had a special deal with. </span></div>
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My husband and I decided to take up, as a
retirement project, the renovation of an old family house in Greece. We were
filled with excitement. That was ten years ago, and since then we have been
travelling to an old house on the island of Lemnos in the Aegean for six months
of every year. And I have written a book about that adventure.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’d always thought that if I write I would
use an old family name not my own name as a pen name, though in the end I
combined the two. My great grandmother was a Drury, and it was known that this
name dates back to the Norman invasion of England when a knight called Guy de
Drury came over with William the Conqueror. </span></div>
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called Catton has recently published a book. Eleanor Catton’s book, the
Luminaries, won the Man Booker prize. Though obviously not in that league, I
thought it could be confusing, if as a writer I used the same name.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I did not approach any publishers, but I
did approach 8 agents with my book and none took it up. (I know this is quite
modest compared with other would-be-writers and perhaps I should have put more
effort into finding a publisher.) However, this activity is largely a
retirement hobby, and as I’m an elderly lady (75) and time is short, and I have
other things to attend to – house, family and more writing, I did not want to
spend more time and effort looking for publishers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This has been through word of mouth and a
few library and garden club talks. Plus I’ve given a lot of copies to friends
and relatives. I did put a few in a couple of bookshops, but these were
independent books shops who don’t mind the extra work involved in displaying
self-published authors, and negotiating payment for just a few books.</span></div>
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I had been making notes all the time we were
working on the house, and finally I decided to write a book about our renovation
adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I did not to produce
a book just about the renovation of a house, or just about living in an exotic
location. I did not want a story about blue skies and tavernas, or of strange
customs and people, I wanted the situation to ring true to what we had
experienced. So, while writing about our unique adventure on an Aegean Island,
I tried to weave two familiar ‘retirement’ situations into stories of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a special house and island.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The House Story</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">While the
dream of a house on an Aegean island, with sunshine, warm seas and rural peace,
is something many busy, driven, city folk long for it’s not easily achieved. It
took a lot of hard work, and it took us ten years of working 6 months every
year to complete the job.</span><span lang="EN-US"> There is no doubt that Ogden
Nash got it right when he wrote that ‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic";">It takes
a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home. It takes a heap o’ payin’ too.’</span></i></div>
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island of Lemnos we’ve now lived and laughed, but also cried and sweated, for
over ten years. There is no denying that this has been the most marvelous
romantic dream-house adventure but I feel that we too experienced the truth of
an old<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lemnian saying, that one
cries twice when coming to this island. This saying may have originated from the
time when the island was a designated place of exile, and folk would cry when
they landed, arriving reluctantly. But often they would cry again when they
left as by then they’d fallen in love with the island and its people. This was
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perseverance over a very long period that enabled us to succeed; first buying
the Venetian house from thirty-six cousins, and then renovating all three
stories.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> And as there are only a few
shops nearby, and it’s hard to get what you want when you want it , Takis was
thrown back onto his own resources but I think this what Takis most enjoyed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This project has taken its toll in various
ways, emotionally, physically and financially. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And,</span><span lang="EN-US"> o</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">f
course, no one can have missed the fact that this decade has been a tumultuous
one for Greece, with enormous immigration and fiscal problems. Has this affected
me? Of course it has.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">But,
while there have many been times when I’ve come to the island grudgingly, every
time it comes time to leave I walk around my Greek garden very unwilling to depart.
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Australian Connections</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Visiting
South Australia</span></span></h3>
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have a history with this state. South Australia is where I first flew to as a
young ’10 pound Pom’ (this is what we young, assisted, immigrants were once
called). As I was a teacher and Australia needed teachers. I arrived on a
Friday and was immediately put to work as I was in the classroom teaching on
the Monday. What a great beginning compared to the vast number of immigrants
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">South
Australia is a ‘free’ state not a convict territory. Folk chose to come and
settle, and set up farms here. It is the state that my Grandfather sailed to in
clipper ships as a young midshipman. Every time I hear that song, ‘I’m bound
for South Australia’, I’m reminded of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Not
long after arriving I married and set up a house in the Adelaide Hills, a house
with 3 hectares of land. This is where my 3 children grew up. It is where I
first learnt about gardening in a ‘Mediterranean Climate’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Bound for South Australia</span></span></em></h3>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In South Australia I was born<br />
Heave away, haul away<br />
South Australia round Cape Horn<br />
We're bound for South Australia<br />
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Chorus<br />
Heave away, you rolling king<br />
Heave away, haul away<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Heave away, oh hear me sing<br />
We're bound for South Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I still
fly to SA at least once a year to visit my children who live there. The
distance is about the same as from Athens to Lemnos. (There you have the choice
of flying, 1 hour, or ferry, 12 hours.)From Melbourne in the state of Victoria
to SA it takes 8 hours by road, or I hour by plane. This particular visit was conveniently
time so that I was there to celebrate three birthdays.</span></div>
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I spent my first 20 years in Australia in SA I have a lot of friends in this
state. I managed to spend a lot of time with an old neigbour who lived in a
property behind ours in the hills. And I had coffee with a couple of academic
colleagues from the days when I worked at the University of South Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,
Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I was in South Australia not only to meet friends and family but because I had been invited to give a talk to the SA, MGS Branch
at their November meeting. This is the largest of the Australian branches as
Adelaide is probably the state capital with the most typical Mediterranean
climate. In my garden there, because I lived in the Hills I was able to grow
some temperate plants, but on the plains where the city is located gardeners
need to use more dry-tolerant plants. They were interested in Lemnos and my
garden there and so I gave a talk illustrated with slides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meet in an old building that it a part of the Adelaide Botanic Garden
Administrative Centre. There were about 50 at the meeting, and such a helpful
and interesting group. Many of them lived in the Adelaide Hills, as I had all
those years ago. My good neighbour-friend accompanied me, and we arrived in
good time to set up the slides – well with too good timing it turned out. I had
been under the impression that the meeting began at 7 in the evening, and
knowing the problems of setting up a slide show we were there quarter past six.
But at 7 the door was still locked and not a person in sight! I panicked, was
it the wrong day? Was I at the wrong place? But no, my heartbeat settled as
folk began to arrive just after 7. Plus the group was super organized and had a
excellent facilities and a very proficient technician to set them up. It went
like a dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Branch has four excellent newsletters a year, with stories of member’s gardens,
garden trips, open gardens, and gardening tips. I came away with copies to
browse on my way home to Victoria. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like the emphasis this group put on Climate Compatible Gardening. It was
something I had emphasized in my talk about Gardening in Greece, and something
I’ve mentioned in my last two blogs – the fact that Greece does not just have a
Mediterranean Climate it has many microclimates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Branch president, and well-known garden author, Trevor Nottle quotes Noel
Lothian (former Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden) for the Branch’s
newsletter, ‘All gardeners in Australia must realize that their local
conditions are quite different from those a few miles away, or in the next state.’
Trevor then goes on to add, ‘It is our happy circumstance as members of the
Mediterranean Garden Society to carry forward a strong agenda based on much the
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book has just been published by Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a lush celebration of the gardening life in all its forms. It concentrates on
collectible objects, but covers much more. It was produced to accompany the
opening of a museum of gardening objects at Carrick Hill House and Garden,
South Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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absorbing in their detail and oddness. And the pictures of useful objects bring
back many gardening memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always easy being a gardener on Lemnos not just because of the hot and dry
summers that can extend for three or even four moths, and because of the frosts
and winter snowfalls, but also because of these winds. However with trial and
error I continue to garden, and now love my practical and very beautiful
Lemnian garden. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Lemnos is a northern
Aegean island a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">nd it lies in the same latitude as Rome and Barcelona.
</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Its position is between
the coast of Turkey and Greece, not far from the entrance to the Black Sea via
the Bosporus. It is not formed as a part of a physical chain or group, but is
frequently grouped together Lesvos, Samothrace and Thasos for tourist or
administrative purposes.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It is an old volcanic island; in fact there was a
remnant still active in the 18C. It is the 8<sup>th</sup> largest Greek island,
and was the first stopover for Jason and the Argonauts. Be</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">side its many sandy beaches it also
has some deep bays, one of which was the one used by the Allies just before the
landing at Gallipoli while the beaches around this bay were where the injured
were first brought, and the setting for the TV series, ANZAC girls.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Climate Zone for Lemnos would be called Mediterranean, with hot dry summers
(sometimes no rain for 4 months) and wet cold winters. The temperature is
typically 2 to 5 degrees Celsius less than in Athens, and Thessaloniki that is
it’s nearest large town. The average </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">high in July is 29.0, and the average low in January is 4.2. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But,
because of its position, set out in the sea, away from the continents and other
islands, the weather can be very windy, hence its nickname "the
wind-ridden one" Animoisa (in Greek, Ανεμόεσσα). These winds can be very
lovely in the summer when sea breezes cool one during hot summer days, though
coming up from the south and Egypt they can occasionally be ladened with sand!
In winter the winds come down from Russia and the Black Sea and can keep folk
indoors, and bend and stunt the trees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We now have a beautiful house and garden on the island but
in 2002 when our ‘retirement project’ began we were faced with empty block
except for one old olive tree and several aging almond trees and in one corner
a collapsing three story, 100yr old, stone and tiled house, and in the garden
two ruined outbuildings.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> It had
been a d</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ump, a playground,
and it was filled with old and dying trees, plus it had been cleared topsoil</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Losing
plants because of heat especially when I’ve tried to grow something not suited
like apple trees, or planted some vegetables too late in the year and they
shrivel up when June heats up. And, I’ve lost several citrus trees to frost and
snowy winter conditions. Plus there have been sudden unexplained losses, which
I’ve put down to unknown beasties in the soil, or to wind shaking and breaking
the root system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My plum tree died unexplainably just after this harvest</td></tr>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Lack
of Top Soil</span></span></u></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evidently
previous users of the house found that it cost too much to pay someone to weed
the property and an easier was to hire a mechanical scooper to take off the topsoil. After
doing this for a few years they had cleared block of land, but when we arrived
it took a year or two to restore and renovate the soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Plant
nurseries </span></span></u></h4>
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are only two on the island and they have limited stock, full of stuff for
ladies balconies, or men’s allotments(azaleas, herbs, vegetable seedlings and
olive trees). The tools sold are of poor quality and you have to buy poisons
and weed killers are sold elsewhere. But they do have bags of potting mix. We
arrived May, too late for seeds, so I have to rely on Anestis to find and plant
seedlings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takis
speaks Greek, but Anestis, my garden helper only speaks Albanian and seeking I
only speak English communication gets difficult. Takis is not always around to
translate and anyway he does not always convey what I want. But Anestis and I
work together using sign language!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leave in October, too late to prune, so I have to rely on Anestis to do the
winter pruning. This sometimes works but in some cases he’ll prune something to
death and in other cases, like the roses, he refuses to prune hard enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anestis
is willing to break with some local custom but on the whole he follows the lead
of the local (male) gardeners. This can teach me a thing or two, such as
watering down trenches. But he’s learnt a few things from me (though as a male
he’s not willing to admit it) such as mulching roots of trees and veggies in
the summer, and composting, using weeds, kitchen waste, grass clippings from the
park, and seaweed and straw (when we can get it.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Then
there were the weeds. You always have a ‘bane of your life’ in each garden, and
convolvulus is the one in Lemnos. But there were others. They say, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">‘A weed in one place is a chosen plant
in another’ but as Edna Walling put it weeds are plants that tend to multiply
too quickly in a particular area. Sometimes you may want this but more often
plants that do this can be…</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;"><u>Rampageous</u>,
however some are easily ripped out (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nasturtium</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;">,
Purslane)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;"><u>Tender
and Wild</u> and as they come and go at their own will they are often welcome,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Capers, Chamomile, Poppies, Vleeta)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>Easily
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>Terrorists</u>
and the bane of my gardening life, and I hate them with a vengeance in this garden! (Grasses,
Bindweed)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rocky Lemnos</h3>
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Rocky Lemnos</h3>
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rocky landscape, the Greeks adopted the legend that the gods poured the world's
soil through a sieve and created Greece from the rocks that remained.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Lemnos like so many other
Greek island was formed from volcanic action. There are many evidences of this
as one looks at the rock strewn fields, and rocky cliffs that rise from the
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">As far as gardening is
concerned and the creation of rockeries, walls, and paths the abundance of
rocks is a great blessing and in my Lemnos garden we have used the stones that
were on the property to rebuild walls, and create edges to flower beds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><i>Connected: the sustainable landscape </i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">by Phillip Johnson</span></span></h3>
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Johnson's 2013 Chelsea Garden</h3>
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library talk in Australia given by Phillip Johnson, a local landscape gardener.
I was particularly interested as his book promotes not only natural landscapes
but also sustainable gardening. He promotes the conservation of every drop of
water that falls on roofs, on driveways, often creating swales and ponds in his
gardens. Together with Wes Flemming, a nursery man, he became </span><span style="background: white; color: #53565a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">an international household name after
winning Best in Show at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower and
Garden Show in 2013 – this, it is said is the equivalent of winning a gold
medal at the Olympics.</span><span style="color: #53565a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">His book expounds his philosophy of connecting
with nature in a sustainable way and is called, <i>Connected</i> which</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="background: white;">focuses on his key passions of integrated sustainable water management
and the creation of natural, chemical-free pools. In this manner his gardens
create thriving habitats for indigenous plants and animals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In reading through his book I was inspired by his conservation ideas. And
though his style of native and rock gardening is not for me I think you could
still use his recycling ideas in other styles of gardens. In fact we did use a lot of stones and wonderful heavy old paving stones in our Lemnos garden.</span></div>
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brother, John Perrett, has done something similar in many of the landscapes he created in
South Australian gardens. As a landscape gardener he would know just the size and shape
of stone he wanted and take his truck and crane to local farmers fields and
remove stones they did not want and that he could use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cranes. However, as an Australian landscape gardener of the 1950s wrote, this
is expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><i>The
Edna Walling Book of Australian Garden Design</i> </span></span></h3>
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at vast expense we can hardly hope to achieve anything so impressive as a
natural outcrop, where each stone sometimes weighs many tons, but it is
possible, and much better, to employ plenty of labour, and the necessary gear
for lifting, to secure a few very big rocks rather than a quantity whose sixe
is limited to the strength of one or two men. Without these huge boulder it is
difficult to achieve a natural effect…</i></span></div>
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make a rockery, to use only a collection of smaller rocks can look wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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restraint is needed in placing boulders in the natural rock garden, but when
one is satisfied that the effect is entirely pleasing and that the plants are
playing their part well, the ground they occupy will need very little
attention.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jekyll was an early inspiration for Edna Walling and when she writes about
rockeries she dwells more on the plants. She also points out that a dry stone
wall is one of the best places to put some alpine rockery plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the best and simplest ways of growing rock-plants is in a loose wall. In
many gardens an abrupt change of level makes a retaining wall necessary, and
when I see this built in the usual way as a solid structure of brick and mortar
– unless there be any special need of the solid wall – I always regret that it
is not built as a home for rock-plants. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we came first to Lemnos there were fallend stones everywhere and walls that
were left were basically dry stone walls, though in a very bad condition.
However it did mean that plants found a hold there and we had a large caper
plant growing there. Unfortunately most of our walls are retaining walls of a
height that when rebuild required the use of cement and we lost our caper
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bricks to make walls. But then this is a different kind of garden, where plants
predominate. And one day I might be able to afford the luxury of a rock pool,
or rock wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Greek
Gardening Trials and Tribulations</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Weather</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greece
is known to have a Mediterranean climate, but in fact to say it has ‘hot
summers and cool wet winter’ is too simplistic, the situation is far more
complicated than that. This is because Greece is filled with micro-climates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greece
is a small country that covers a large area, and as it is made up of very tall mountains
and deep ravines, and hundreds of islands breezes come off the sea or funnel
down the mountainsides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus its
not just latitude that creates different climates, altitude and an island’s position
in the sea makes a difference (whether it is close to one of the three surrounding
continents or set apart). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve
grown plumbago in a number of gardens and I’m sure that if I travelled around
Greece I might also find it flourishes in some places or has to be coddled in
others. It is a tough plant from South America. It can cope with a large
variety or soils and climates though not frost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
one sea-side garden in Australia, where the soil was sandy and there was very
little rain I had a vigorous and colourful hedge of plumbago along the
driveway. In another house (this one in a forest where it got lots of rain) I
planted it along the front fence but it remained leggy and had only a few
flowers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Lemnos plumbago is sold in the nurseries so I thought I’d give it a go, but it
succumbed to the frosts. Then I noticed that the islanders planted it in large
terracotta pots. I’ve now done this with another plant and another I’ve place
in a very sheltered spot close to a wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the case of my garden inLemnos, wind it the big drawback. The island is in the
Northern Aegean, set out in the sea away from the continents or other islands and
the winter winds (the Vorias) come sweeping down from the Black Sea. They are
cold and snow bearing. However the summer winds (the Meltemi) are welcomed.
They are cooling in the summer heat giving the island a temperature 4-5 degrees
cooler than Thessaloniki and Athens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
the severity of the winter wind does mean that trees have to be staked hard to
survive the winter. Anestis, my helper in the garden, drives heavy posts in
next to them and ties them up to prevent them blowing over. They may not blow
right over but sometimes they are so shaken the roots are loosened and when
summer arrives they’ll suddenly die during the heat. This happened to one of my
pencil pines, and one of two cypresses I was training two as an archway. Not
much of an archway was left! So I had to cut the other cypress down too. I
suspect this is the reason too why my plum tree produced a huge harvest and
then suddenly died. The other thing locals do is to prune trees very hard so
that the wind passes through the short bare branches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Citrus
trees are sold in the local plant nursery and I’m trying to grow lemons,
oranges and cumquats as I’ve seen some in other gardens but I’ve had a lot of
losses. I planted them in the shelter of a tall wall to protect them from the
northern winds, but frosts and snow several times cut down the young trees.
They have to be protected so I tried to cover their roots with mulch before I
left but then the wind whipped that away. So in the end I covered the mulch
with a net pinned over the top. Maybe I’ve succeeded, but I won’t be surprised
if I go back and find they’ve been cut back yet again by a hard winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
you will see often things have to be done differently in this garden. Pruning
can be a sore point between me and Anestis. One problem is that I don’t speak
Greek and can’t always rely on Takis to translate what I want done. Another is that mulch and compost is not available, I use dried weeds and seaweed for mulch. And though sheep's dung is sold by the gypsies, it really is nothing more than stony topsoil so we rely on our homemade compost bins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I can
see why locals prune back very hard, but sometimes Anestis pruning will
decimate a tree and it does not recover in spring. And then, though I ask him
to prune the roses very hard (Copsi Megala) he only cuts them back modestly.
Roses have been a surprise and joy in Lemnos. I’ve tried in other gardens to
grow roses, but they did not grow in the seaside sandy garden and in my city
garden the possums ate them. Here I’ve discovered roses bloom abundantly,
especially in spring. Locals tend to just be satisfied with that, however I
tend to keep light pruning and watering my bushes, to get a more continuous
flowering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as to Anesis and me, we do manage and the garden between us. I tell myself it’s
a good thing I don’t always get my way. He is an enthusiastic and willing
gardener. (And I think he enjoys working with me more than in the house renovating
with Takis!) He provides the sort of help any gardener loves, strong
muscles to move rocks, carry buckets and yank out stubborn roots. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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though we both don’t admit it we have learnt a thing or two from each other. He
now mulches (though mulch is hard to come by and we tend to just use dried
weeds to prevent too much evaporation in summer), and he now is happy and proud
of our compost heaps (to which I add seaweed, a real eye opener for him).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">Micro-Climates of Greece</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Greece is a small country that covers a
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<span style="background: #F7F9FE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The country closest in
landmass to Greece is England, with an area of 130,395 km2 as opposed to
Greece's 131,957km2. Another comparison could be with the US state of Alabama.
(you can fit both Greece and England into the state of Victoria, which is one
of Australia’s smaller states.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greece
is bounded by three Seas, the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean Seas, and its
coastline is estimated to be </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">13,676 km (8,498 miles)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">It spreads 772 km (480 miles) from
east to west and 940 km (584 miles) from north to south – with Athens roughly
in the center</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">. I</span><span style="background: #F7F9FE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">f you travelled from the very north of the country to the very south it
would be like travelling from London to Barcelona, or if you were in
Australia,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>something like
travelling from Melbourne to Sydney.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span><span style="background: #F7F9FE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Thus, just because of the differences in
Latitude the Greek climate does vary from north to south. </span><span style="background: #F7F9FE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Greek summers are hot and
dry, while winters are cool and rainy. Thus Greece generally has a temperate
Mediterranean climate. The average July temperature is 27°C (80°F), with the
thermometer</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">topping 38°C (100°F) on the hottest days. And rainfall increases from
south to north, ranging from 41 cm (16 inches) in Athens to about 127 cm (50
inches) on the island of Corfu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">However,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> because there are so many mountains (80% is mountainous) and so many
island (20% is islands) this caused differences as climate is</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">moderated by both sea and mountain breezes.
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greece is primarily a
mountainous country with more than 300 larger or smaller mountains. The most
significant Greek mountain axis is the Pindus Mountain range, forming the “backbone”
of Mainland Greece, it extends naturally to the mountains in the Peloponnese,
and to Crete.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Other </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">mountain ranges extending into the sea as
peninsulas (one ends with Mount Athos), or chains of islands</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">The large number of
islands are estimated to be from somewhere around 1,200 to</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">6,000, depending on the minimum size
to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as
between 166 and</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">227.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">So, while the climate
of Greece is generally Mediterranean, due to the country's unique geography</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"> it has a remarkable range of micro-climates</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">and local variations.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">The weather at the higher
elevations is colder and wetter, and mountains, and northern areas, receive
snowfalls and frosts in winter. You can even get snowfalls as far south as
Athens or even Crete at times. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">You can find at least three main types of climate in Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are often surprised to find there are Alpine areas in Greece. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"> the north-west you might think you are in Switzerland with its chalets
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Then there areas were
the temperatures rarely reach the extremes, although snowfalls do occur
occasionally even in Athens and Crete </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">during the winter. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">But all things have to be taken into account when looking at the climate of a particular area, or island. Take Crete. It has a fairly mild temperature although being the most southernmost island with summer temperatures of 25-6 and winter temperatures around 10-12. This is because it is surrounded by seas, away from large landmasses, with many tall mountains. So Crete benefits from both sea and mountain breezes in summer, and being so far south rarely has snowfalls. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Lemnos – The Windy Island </span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Lemnos
is a Northern Aegean island. It is the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">8<sup>th</sup> largest Greek island, once
volcanic now it has low rounded hills and indented deepwater bays.</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"> It was formed by volcanic action and
it does not form as a part of a physical chain or group. However the island is frequently
grouped together with other Northern Aegean islands (Lesvos, Thasos and
Samothraki) for tourist or administrative purposes.</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">A
feature of Lemnos is that it is mostly flat (hence its many sandy beaches), and
it has more arable land than many other islands. Thought the northwest part is
more is rough and mountainous with Mount Vigla the highest elevation (470m). </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
temperature is typically 2 to 5 degrees Celsius less than in Athens, and than
Thessaloniki, its nearest large town. The average </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">high in July is 29.0, and the average
low in January is 4.2. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Summertime at a Lemnian Beach</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Winter Hail in our Garden</b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">You
could say Lemnos has a mild Mediterranean climate, but because of its position
it can get winter winds from Russia, and summer winds from Egypt and so winters
will have frosts and occasional snowfalls. However the strongest feature of
this island are its winds. These may be welcome when they come in August, but in
winter they bend the trees and keep everyone indoors. Hence the nickname for
Lemnos, "the wind-ridden one" (in Greek, Ανεμόεσσα).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Me in Lemnos port in January</b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">I’ve
found its not always easy being a gardener on Lemos because those hot and dry summers,
that can extend for three or even four moths, and because of the frosts and
winter snowfalls. Then, in addition, there are those winds! However with trial
and error I continue to garden and now love my practical and very beautiful
Lemnian garden. More about those trials and errors in the next blog.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Blackbird
Days</span></span></h2>
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is what I call this time of year. It lies at the end of spring, when blackbirds
become very clucky. They begin warbling at about four in the morning, to brag
about their nests and coming young ones, and they keep going all day, letting
up only in the late evening as the sun sets</span></div>
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also time when there are some very fluctuating weather patterns here in south
of Australia as the winds sweep in from the north (across the deserts of inland
Australia), or south (from the Antarctic), or east (from the Pacific) or west
(across the continent itself and another desert). In the Dandenongs the
temperature at night still falls at times below 10 and yet it can rise to 28 in
the day, and even into the 30s down in the city of Melbourne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">BUT,
in between storms and winds we have these perfect spring days. The flowers love
the warmth (not really hot yet) and the dampness (after the storms) and open up
and gaze at the sun – and my camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
love walking around the garden to see what has opened up today. The other day
my husband and I went to the city to have a meal with our children. It was not
long after a passing thunderstorm. When we got back I was amazed to see that my
peonies, that I had watched day by day as the buds swelled, had opened up and there
were all these huge, astounding blooms, a few of which I had to bring indoors to admire some more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had
not been in this part of the world in winter for a number of years until this
year and what struck me was the number and brilliance of the Acacia blooms,
lightening up the general grey-greeness of the eucalyptus forests around here.
Other years we would still be in Greece in October, not returning until
November. I’d return to get ready for Christmas and notice how all around our
house the white and blue agapanthus were in bloom. It has made me call
Christmas Agapanthus Time. I’ve enjoyed the fact that this year I’ve seen the
daffodils and camellias come into bloom (though have nearly all gone now). And
now I’m filled with joy to see the irises coming into flower, and of course the
peonies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a great feeling to be part of nature’s cycle. But here in Australia, which is a
very large continent, and has various growing zones, the European 4 seasons
does not really apply. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens, says our spring begins in August, not
September. He invites Australians to switch from four to five seasons and to
rename and redate them: instead of a neat division of three months a season
Entwisle says our seasons should match our climate and what's happening with
our plants and animals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(June, July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The Aboriginal
peoples have distinct ways of dividing the year, naming and understanding the
seasons differently between groups. This depends on where in Australia the
group lives, and the activities that they are involved in at each part of the
year.. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">These
are the seasons, according to the <span style="color: black;">Noongar (Whadjuk)
People, </span>in the South-West coast of Australia. They too <span style="color: black;">aligned to their seasonal activities of fishing, hunting
and collecting of plants.</span></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Bunuru (February, March) Hot dry, easterly and north winds</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Djeran (April, May) Cooling, south-west winds<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Makuru (June, July) Cold rain, westerly gales<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Djiba (August, September) warming<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kambarang (October, November) rain lessening<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Birak (December, January) Hot dry daytime easterly breezes, later
afternoon south-west sea breezes.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">So, according to Tim Entwisle we are now in Sprummer, and according the
Noongar, or Whadjuk People we are in Kambarang, when rains will lessen.</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">And yes, rain is precious this month and we don’t want the summer to
arrive too early, as we know we have some very dry days ahead, so I’m looking
at the barometer, to check for rain. But meanwhile, enjoying these precious
Blackbird Days!</span></h2>
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Villages with Attractions</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Villages
are a collection of houses originally built for a very simple reason. They may
be there, perched on a hilltop, for the view, or settled in a river valley for
ease of transport, or placed beside a bay because it offers a safe harbour. But
after that first hamlet to become an established village they would have
weathered storms of change, perhaps times of destitution due to plague and
floods, wars and famines. And while their populations grew in some eras they
would have shrunk in others. However those villages that are flourishing today’s
have adapted and managed to give comfort to locals and also attract others from
outside. The modern successful village offers something unique, something that
makes it worth while visitors driving there to experience it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Romance as well
as adventure was involved when my husband and I decided to move to Greece and
live in Myrina. We also live part of every year in another village, in Emerald
in Australia, and while we’re very aware of the differences we’ve also noticed
that the two villages have some similarities. In this blog I want to comment on
the way both have turned some the place of some important rural activity into a
leisure park for today’s visitors. </span></div>
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very important, they and are colourful occasions and newcomers and visitors
join in the celebrations with locals. In the Australian village there is a
tourist steam train passing through the hills and forests of the Ranges. It is
your obligation to stand at the train crossing when it passes and wave to the
tourists. Great fun for all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Early
Days in Emerald</span></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Forests once covered the hills of Emerald</b></td></tr>
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easier to note what was going on in Emerald’s early days as thus village is
little more than 150 years old. Gold was discovered in the Emerald area in
1858. Thus, at first this was the site where Victorian prospectors went gold
panning in local streams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Many trees were cut down to make way for nurseries</b></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
enterprise was soon wound down as the gold ran out however some of these
settlers had noted that the local soil was particularly fertile, built homes
and cleared land to grow vegetables. Soon some grew berries and lavender to
sell on to folks in the city. One family, that of Carl Axel Nobelius, decided
to buy 25 hectares and he established a nursery which was successful and he was
soon exporting bare rooted fruit trees, and ornamental trees overseas. At its
height this establishment employed 80 local men and sold three million trees in
one year. In order transport these goods to the port of Melbourne a narrow gage
railway was built to connect to the main-line train service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Once a nursery now Emerald Lake Park</b></td></tr>
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nursery has since closed and now Emerald has become a dormitory town for
Melbourne. Most of the present day population works in the city and surrounds -
many are building contractors, painters and plumbers. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Locals Gathering at an Emerald Memorial</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Having Fun in Emerald Lake Park</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>And on Puffing Billy</b></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the population of the
village often swells with day visitors; tourists who are visiting its leisure
parks – created out of that old nursery – and its still running small gage
railway, known as Puffing Billy. And many just drive up for a days outing, to
attend one of its festivals or market days, and end up sitting having coffee
and cakes in its tree lined main street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Early Days in</o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Myrina</span></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Bay where Jason and the Argonauts Landed</b></td></tr>
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is an ancient village. It probably was established during Neolithic times
perhaps as a garrison for a group of Cretan soldiers. It had a safe harbour and
a place for a lookout. Local lore establishes that the leader of this group was
‘king’ Thoas and his wife was ‘queen’ Myrina. This combination of safe harbour
and nearby high rocky lookout was attractive to other invaders and later the
village was extended and the garrison fort strengthened. Myrina has become the
main settlement on the island, and while for a while it was known as Castro,
after the fort, in more recently times it has been given the name Myrina after
the Cretan ‘queen’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Locals Gathering for a Lemnos Memorial</b></td></tr>
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is the main town for the largely farming community of the island of Lemnos, however
it too swells at times when large groups of tourists arrive during the two
summer holiday months of July and August. They come for that ‘safe harbour’ and
nearby beaches, and they admire the old Castro fort lookout. They also love to
visit the main shopping street filled with quaint shops and coffee shops, or
sit at one of the tavernas in the harbour for lunch or dinner.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Enjoying the Village Life</b></td></tr>
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like Emerald, there are also special festivals that draw people back such as
Easter and special Saints Days. And so the ‘village’, while a ‘home town’ for
locals, is also a holiday destination for many Greeks who have family
connections here, and who like return to the island for its religious
festivals, or who come to enjoy its beaches during the summer months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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All, from Way Back</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Today’s
Big Problem for Europe</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the papers here this weekend there is a report from Europe that those nations
are adopting tougher methods to sort out the flood of migrants currently arriving. Are
they ‘economic migrants’, largely from poor African nations, or are they
refugees from war zones in the Middle East? The first part of the plan Europe hopes to put in place is to send back the ‘economic migrants’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just can’t
imagine how that will turn out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Recent
Migrants, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Bournemouth and Alexandria</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takis and I are migrants. I
came to Australia from England, and my home town at that time was Bournemouth
on the south coast. I came as ten-pound Pom, one of a number of young people
who were looking for work and families looking to settle in warmer climes. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
got a job as a teacher and began work two days after landing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takis
had arrived on these shores a few years before me. He left Alexandria, Egypt,
when nationalism was stirring and foreigners began moving out. His grandfather
along with many other Greeks had been living in that country for several
generations. Takis did not want to go back to war-weary Greece as most of his
family chose to do. Instead he travelled out to Australia. He began looking for
work, trying carpentry and bookkeeping for the national railways before setting up his own business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Past Great
Movements of People</span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There
has always been a movement of peoples, from one country to another. Sometimes
this is just one or two adventurers, sometimes a few who can see better
opportunities elsewhere, sometimes a small flow of displaced people, and
sometimes very large groups who are seeking refuge, such as happened after the
second world war when boat loads of displaced Italians and Greeks arrived in
Australia.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If I
look back at the story of Takis’ family I see that it is the story of migrants. His
grandfather left the island of Lemnos as a very young teenager. The people on
the island at that time were suffering badly, homes with dirt floors, no shoes
and hardly enough food to feed the family. George found a passage in a boat,
probably working his way, and arrived in Alexandria to find work in a grocers
shop run by another Lemnian. He later married the grocers’ daughter and set up
his own businesses in that city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
are looking for work opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
are seeking refuge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some just want a better life than they had back home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are traders who'll settle where they find work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are students who've come to study<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And some are expats, ‘returning migrants’. These are nostalgic for the place they once left and they want to 'return home'. Even though things may not be as they imagined
nostalgia and a sense of belonging has brought them back. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the weekend paper
I read a review of a book just published. It is a novel about a Jewish woman
from Melbourne, the daughter of Holocaust survivors who returns to live in the
difficult situation that is Israel today. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It reminded me a little of our
situation returning to Greece, a country that is also in chaos, though of a
different kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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we Claim a Country?</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here in Australia we have peace, and a general degree of prosperity, and
a very controlled number of new migrants, yet we have agitators who fear these new arrivals. Again, in the weekend news, there was the story of an anti-Islam rally
in a country town called Bendigo. The rallying call was against the building of
a proposed mosque. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Always
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">How strange for me, a migrant myself, married to a migrant, both of us with children who were born in this country, to hear of people calling out ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi’, as if they were the ground swell and whole composition of this country. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Especially when, that same night on the TV, I watched an
Aboriginal dance company perform a moving dance about times, long, long, long,
before all these self proclaimed ‘Real Australians’ arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">And
Before, for Us?</span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Both
sides of my family would claim to be English, but I’ve been told about a
heritage that goes back to France, and the Norman invasion of England in 1066!
And looking at my mother and her birth name I’d say she would have Saxon
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
Takis’ family names tell their stories too. His father was Statiras, and the
family came from Yannina. The name meaning weighing scales, and they were
probably merchants in that city. His mother’s family came from Lemnos and with
the name Pandazolou indicating some Turkish input I would think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Two
Very Different Gardens</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-weight: bold;">Our Lemnian Garden – Exposed to Extremes</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: bold;">Mediterranean
Gardening</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was a dream of mine to have a Med. Garden, and I’ve blogged quite a lot about
before about how my husband and I ‘retired’ and took up the project to renovate
his grandfather’s old summer holiday house, and also about the garden I
developed there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had
already learnt something about Mediterranean gardening before coming to Greece.
I’d already found Mediterranean plants useful Adelaide before I moved to
Melbourne, and then with global warming arriving fast even the garden of our
small unit in Melbourne started drying up. However, while there are many books
about ‘Dream Med. Gardens’, in France and in Italy many are made by British
expats, with money, around large houses. I needed something about a less grand
garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I
read books like Trevor Nottle’s book, Gardening in the Sun and Jacqueline
Tyrwhitt’s book Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside. I was much helped by
joining the Med. Garden Society, and by reading Heidi Gildemeister book about
Mediterranean Gardens, including ‘home gardens’. But what helped most was using
local knowledge, and filling the garden with plants found in the garden or
along the roadsides, and with plants given me by neighbours. These formed the
basis of my Greek garden in Lemnos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for ten years</span></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
garden block is 1200 square meters (300 used by house and outbuildings) and when
we arrived there was a collapsing 100yr old family house in one corner and two
ruined outbuildings and a flat area of weeds. But there was a well, and plenty
of stones to build walls. Now that it is developed we find we have a very
useful garden. Takis makes marmalade from the bitter oranges and I make a lemon
and fig jam, plus when we harvest in late summer the buckets of peppers and
tomatoes and onions I turn into sauce - very useful to feed our many guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are some of the plants that were</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>There</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Olive, grapes, almond trees, bitter orange, fig<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Euphorbia,
hemlock, daffodil lilies, oleander<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honeysuckle,
rosemary, bay, Iris, cannas, pampas grass, jasmine, basil, pittosporum,
Virginia creeper, lilac, pelargonium, grapes, day lily<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pomegranate,
pine, box, rose, bougainvillea, citrus, agapanthus, bottlebrush, lantana,
gaura, wisteria, yucca, fan palm, agave, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are not often in Lemnos in winter to experience the extremes of wind and cold!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Losing
plants because of severe heat in summer and frosts and snow in winter</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">Working
with Anestis my garden helper using sign language!</span></h4>
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being there full time and so not able to be there to sow seeds or to care for
the newly planted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><u>Our Emerald Garden – Shady and Damp</u></span></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Mild
Climate Gardening</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
home state in Australia is known for its lush meadows and damp forests. The
farms produce dairy products and vegetables. We lived in the main town of
Melbourne, but found that we needed more space for our leisure pursuits, Takis
for his carpentry and me for my gardening enthusiasms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also needed more room to entertain
our six children and friends when back in Australia so we looked for, and
found, a home in the nearby village of Emerald. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though
droughts have affected this forested area on the whole it was a return to gardening,
as I’d known it, in England and pre-global-warming days in the Adelaide Hills. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emerald
is an area where there are towering trees and gardens are filled with azaleas, camellias,
and rhododendrons. In the place we bought we found a garden that was already
planted with many of these shrubs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Gardening
for four years</span></span></h4>
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garden block is half and acre. We found much that we could work on already in
place. There was a large water tank that collects water from the roofs, and
that we use partly for water in the house and to water the garden in summer. The
previous owners had many gates and fences to keep their dogs and I’ve removed
some, and created lawns and flowerbeds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
created an herb garden and we also grow vegetables here though less
Mediterranean vegetables as there are not enough hours of sunshine in this
garden. However we can grow berries and various kinds of greens for salad and
horta. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emerald - no frosts but very changeable weather patterns.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
I have found some plants I’ve moved to the garden from the roadsides, I’ve mainly
filled this garden with plants I brought with me from other gardens, from the
garden in Melbourne and from our previous holiday home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are some of the plants that were </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Camellias,
azaleas, rhododendrons, a tulip tree, agapanthus, bougainvillea, cistus, erigeron,
honeysuckle, plumbago, tree ferns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and given</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acanthus,
crocosmia, flax, nasturtium, salvias, sedum, glory vine, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>Brought
with me</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chrysanthemums,
pelargonium, geranium, rosemary, roses, lavender, liriope, box, wisteria, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>Bought</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Citrus,
daffodil, narcissus, bay, basil, oregano, parsley, thyme, iris, jasmine,
flowering cherries, flowering pears, apple trees, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
ground is very fertile and not only do plants grow well so do the weeds. I have
to be careful that things I plant do not take over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stonework
is very expensive so I’ve had to find other materials to make paths and edge
flowerbeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And,
as above, not being here full time means limiting some plantings that I cannot
oversee in the early days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when the weather is perfect, with my camera, thinking about the composition of
the picture I’m taking, its colours and contrasts.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>These short walks are
also a time to be alone with my thoughts, and I agree with Christina Rossetti
about the need for these quiet times. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In the holly-bush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Full of sweet scents,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Which sayeth softly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">‘We spread no snare;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #EEEEEE; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Here dwell alone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Emerald street trees are beginning to be covered with blossom.</b></td></tr>
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I became very aware that ‘spring was bustin’ out all over,’ and when not
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is easy to conjure up at this time of year – though 'October is Bustin' Out All Over' doesn't scan as well, so better 'Spring' that is busting out in Australia!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The
Political Roundabout!</span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is not my favourite topic to write about, although Takis and I have friends who
we like to talk with about politics – often quite vigourously. However I feel
like I must write something in this Greek/Australian blog and as in both Greece
and Australia there has been something going on that has similarities, there
has been a restructuring of the political scene that, funnily, has been a
resumption of what was there before in both countries!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">What
goes round comes around again.</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Greece there has been yet another election and from what we hear from friends
and family, folk are so weary about all the political shenanigans in that
country they just did not bother to vote. And so, with a very poor turn out at
the polling booths, in Greece the Syriza party is back again, with the same
leader, Alexis Tsipras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Australia there has been a growing disillusionment of the leader of the present
government, and more than that an almost air of unbelief about some of his declarations. And so, to pull the party back into the possibility of holding
government there was a coup. (In Australia voting is compulsory and elections
are very organized and expensive and don't happen as often as in Greece. But internal political coups are common!) The new leader of
the country was once before leader of his party, when they were in opposition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Making
Deals with the Devil</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
I find strange, even weird is that Alexis, whose Syriza party is very left
wing, is now declaring that he has a mandate to form government after an
election when probably only 50% of the population voted. And while he has now
got rid of some very extreme left wing members of his party he only makes
goverment by joining with a right wing party. Can’t imagine where that will
lead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will
he be able to…?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #313131; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Cut wage and pension costs again, but less than in
previous five years (2% increase in workers' pension contributions, 2% increase
in pensioners' national insurance contributions)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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qualify for it (and revamp whole pension system before January)? Etc. etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And,
in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, though a true liberal at heart, has had to make
deals with some very conservative members of the Liberal Party to maintain some
of the ‘less than liberal’ stances constructed by the previous prime
minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, similarly,
I can’t imagine where this will end up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
one media analyst says, he is now having to defend many of the policies of the
previous leader that he once criticized. And, as she suggests, any stop-gap
schemes made to please the far right conservatives will surely come unstuck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Meanwhile
in the Media Confusion reigns</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh dear, what will journalist do? All is no longer Black and White! The BBC and
other outlets made much of the bravery of Alexis, challenging the EU. They could
come up with wonderful headlines like ‘Greek Defiance’, ‘No end to Greek
Drama,’ ‘Greece goes down the wire,’ 'Last chance summit,’ but suddenly they
have to change focus, from full on praise for Alexis' (George and the Dragon style!) youthful
vigour in defying international creditors, to a milder credit for ‘transforming’
the left wing parties to a ruling party. They now can't avoid needing to direct their
journalistic fervor at that the crush of immigrants arriving on the
shores of Europe, Greece included, and now they leave Alexis to make his own headlines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Australia too the media has been flummoxed too by the changes in government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Malcolm Turnbull’s coup against Tony Abbott has “set off a
civil war within News Corp”, is how Murdock media company’s popular columnist
Andrew Bolt put it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Murdock Press (owning 70% of all
national papers) had been firm supporters of the ex Prime Minister – as had the
shock jocks – now? What can they say? They’ve got the Liberal Party that they wanted running the country, but this guy as their leader? He sounds too liberal. (And definitely not black and white, perhaps he's grey?). Hard for
them to rage against, and hard for them to support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Springs Eternal!</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lets
hope Alexis means it when he says ‘</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The mandate we received
can be summed up in one word: Work. Without selfishness. With a collective
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to the need ‘To restore Greek pride’. A dodgy concept at best!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Australia? We have a man who believes Australia should become a republic,
that we should do more for global warming, and many other policies, but who has to
find a way to accommodate the old timers in his new cabinet, and yet find ways
to bring Australia into the 21C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is
intriguing to think of the web of connections between small villages and famous
and far off places, for instance the connection between the name of our local
island supermarket, and 15C Venice. The connection was obviously important
enough to be remembered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m
still reading Jan Morris’ <i>Venice</i>. (I must see if I can find a copy, as this one
has to go back to the library this week.) In this book I have been following
with interest the status of women in the 15C, as our supermarket is called
Marula, after a famous 15C Lemnian heroine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">15th Century Lemnos</span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
was the time when the Venetians were very busy in the Aegean. They had arrived
there with the Crusaders, and remained afterwards as more than traders. The
Admirals of the Venetian navy built forts and took over islands, to protect
their boats and cargos. The big and safe ports offered security to the Venetian
and Byzantine navies. The island was positioned as first stopping off point
after their boats had left the Hellespont.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time there would have been shipyards in these bays
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
relationship between Constantinople, the Greek islands and Venice went on for
at least 250 years, though at times uneasy. It was a relationship that benefited
the island as having these powerful players in the neighborhood kept the
pirates at bay. These pirates and brigands, often a mixture of Arabs, Greeks,
and others, would take control of an island or whole areas of the mainland.
However after 1479, when the Venetians conceded Lemnos to the Turks, the Turks took up that sole duty for the next 500 years (as well as that of charging great taxes). Though, as often happens, as their power waned in the 19
Century the brigands and pirates began to appear again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took the First World War and the
arrival of the Allies to finally drive them out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It was during the time the Venetians were in Lemnos, 1475, when the Turks attacked the village of Kotsinas. During the fighting a girl saw her father struck down and she picked up his sword to led the fighters. They defeated the Turks and turned away the invaders. There is still statue of her on the hill in Kotsinas. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Venetians were very pleased. As a reward (as I read in one guide book about Lemnos) Marula was given the right to married a Venetian. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Now this might seem strange, but I’ve just read in Jan Moris
that, only three years before, one of the most prominent Venetian women of
ancient times, Caterina Cornaro, was married the Kind of Cyprus in 1475. It was
probably a way smoothing the way for a Venetian take over of that Greek island.
So marriage between leaders of islands and Venetians was not so unusual in that
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writes of a 15 Century wedding in Venice, and I wonder if Marula had such a
wedding. If she did it would have been a very great reward for a girl from a
small Greek island, even a very courageous one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Venetian brides were celebrated through
Europe for the magnificence of their clothes and the display of their weddings.
They wore their hair long to the altar, cascading down their backs interwoven
with thread of cold. On their heads were exquisite jeweled coronets. Their
shoulders were bare, and their gorgeous full-skirted dresses were made of silk
damask and gold brocade.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #45818e; font-size: small;">A Celebrity Wedding. Guess whose?</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: small;">A Monster Cruise Ship Leaving Venice</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: small;">Visiting Venice (before taking up the house reno. in Lemnos)</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Gardening
in a Greek Village</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Mediterranean
Gardening</span></span></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
have needed to learn about Mediterranean gardening in a couple of previous
gardens and with global warming arriving fast even my garden in Melbourne
started drying up. I’ve found Mediterranean plants useful Adelaide, and in Lock
Sport (a holiday home built on a sand spit). And I came across Trevor Nottle’s
book, <i>Gardening in the Sun </i>and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s book <i>Making a Garden on a
Greek Hillside.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Dream
Med. Gardens</span></span></u></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are many books about ‘Dream Med. Gardens’, in France and in Italy. These
gardens are often started by British expats, with money, around large houses.
There are some who do something similar in Greece. Today for instance the
landscape gardener Thomas Dociadis, builds modern stone houses surrounded by the
local landscape. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">My
Med. Garden</span></span></u></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was a dream of mine to have a Med. Garden, and I’ve written before about how my
husband and I ‘retired’ and took up the project to renovate his grandfather’s
old summer holiday house In Lemnos.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
only have a block of 1200 square meters (300 used by house and outbuildings)
When we arrived the land was empty, with a collapsing 100yr old family house in
one corner and two ruined outbuildings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was
much helped by joining the Med. Garden Society and reading their journals, and
by obtaining and reading Heidi Gildemeister book about Mediterranean Gardens,
including ‘home gardens’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Limits</span></span></u></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
wanted to make a practical (and beautiful) garden, within the limits by the
island, and the village around us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
I want to emphasize is that all gardens are different, in situation and
location, in climate and soil, and style, even when each is in the Med. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Situation Lemnos</span></span></u></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
island of Lemnos is in the Aegean. Our house is a village house; two roads
surround it, with other houses behind us and looking down on us, and other
houses in front and beside us. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The island
is in the same latitude as Rome and Barcelona<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is
an old volcanic island and the 8<sup>th</sup> largest Greek island. It has few
tourists, (Jason’s 1<sup>st</sup> stopover, and where the Anzaca gathered) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winter
winds come from Russia, and include snow; summer winds come from Egypt and are
dry. There can be 4 months with no rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many
centuries of surviving this weather plus fires, goats and sheep have result in
typical Mediterranean Maquis <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Survival
Vegetation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The
hill tops are bare and a few trees in the valleys, e.g. Holm oaks, old
mulberry, albizia,</span></div>
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hills there is plenty of thyme and oregano, and along roadsides, euphorbia,
daisies, hemlock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Planted
in my Garden</span></span></u></h3>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Found on site</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Olive,
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Collected
from roadsides </b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Euphorbia,
hemlock, daffodil lilies, oleander<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by neighbours</b></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honeysuckle,
rosemary, bay, Iris, cannas, pampas grass, jasmine, basil, pittosporum,
Virginia creeper, lilac, pelargonium, grapes, <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Self-seeding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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gaura, wisteria, yucca, fan palm, agave, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We always harvest beans, onions, garlic, zucchini, peppers, tomoatoes.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plus
a variety of herbs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the fruit trees, oranges, lemons, apricots, figs, and pear, with just a
few apples. (I’m encouraging another plum tree, and a mulberry)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takis
makes marmalade from the bitter oranges and I make a lemon and fig jam, plus
when we harvest buckets full of peppers and tomatoes and onions I make jars and
jars of sauce. All very useful to feed our many guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Difficulties.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Losing
plants because of heat, and cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plus
sudden unexplained losses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Working
with Anestis using sign language!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
being there full time in time to sow seeds or to care for the newly planted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve
recently been prevented from writing and posting a new blog; firstly because of
a winter ‘flu-like illness and then by the arrival of guests. And after all of
that there was a lot of catching up to do. Now that life has settled down to
its usual routine I’ve decided I should use a new label to write about my life
in Australia, ‘Down-Under’ is a term often used for Australia, especially by
Europeans who consider this island continent to be located ‘down there’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Australian National Parks </span></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
took my guest on visits to two National Parks, The Royal Botanic Gardens
Cranbourne, which is a completely native garden and to the National
Rhododendron Gardens, close to where we are living. This garden is devoted to rhododendrons
and azaleas, camellias, cherries and daffodils. Both are extensive, Cranbourne
covers 363 hectares with the Visitors Center and the landscaped display gardens
in the center. The Rhododendron Gardens cover 36 hectares. It took us an hour
or so to walk around each but unfortunately the weather was still very wintery
and blustery and the flowers not at their spring best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Cranbourne we could appreciate the immensity of the enterprise, which had
turned an old sand mine into a beautiful landscaped area in the center of the
huge native park. We appreciated the interesting layout but it was too early
for big displays of native Australian plants, and we were glad to get back to
the café for a hot drink!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bottle brush</h4>
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Hardenbergia</h4>
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however I checked out our local vegetation and found that the spring pageant
here had moved on. The Camellias were past their best, still colourful, but
much of that colour was on the ground where the blossoms had fallen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when not looking up to catch a glimpse of these beauties, I noticed that the
gutters of the road were filled with many smaller flowers; forget-me-not,
periwinkle, and not to me missed are the masses of onion week. I don’t mind if
this last stays outside on the lane but unfortunately it invading and today I
pulled out two barrow loads and put in the green recycle bin. I can’t burn them
they are too lush nor put them on the compost, too potent!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Onion weed, pretty but very invasive</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">One cannot say there is a typically English person, or Australian or
Greek, as we all vary, but we do often vary from a norm. And it is the norm I’m
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’m thinking about this now that I’m back in Australia again, and as I
find myself checking out Lemnian behaviour against the behaviour of folk I meet
in the Dandenong Ranges – specifically those in Emerald against those I’ve meet
in Myrina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lemnians watching their local band</h3>
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Folk from Emerald listening to an army band.</h3>
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questions though I have to add that I can see why academic sociological
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Less than 5 per cent of Smalltownites were born outside Australia (most of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It’s not really fair to compare a book written for research purposes to
a travel memoir but it does illustrate something missing (some perhaps
sometimes questionable facts) that when I wrote about our experience in Greece
I wanted to include. Subsequently when I wrote ‘It all Began with the
Watermelon’ I wanted to include some psychology, some history as
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we were living in. Thus it was such a pleasure to see this ‘wholeness of
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two, The Venetian Way, where he describes the meeting of two women shopping.
You already know they are in a Venetian street and you can almost visualise
this event. And then in the same chapter he proposes some reasons for both this
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reflected in all their gestures the pungent character of Venice. The approach
each other hard-faced and intent, for they are doing their shopping, and carry
in their baskets the morning’s modes purchases… But as they catch sight of each
other, a sudden soft gleam of commiseration crosses their faces, as though they
are about to barter sympathies over some irreparable loss, or share an
unusually tender confidence. Their expression instantly relax, and they welcome
each other with protracted exchange of greetings…’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the ‘Emerald’ and ‘Myrina’ way of doing things. I might even write a
follow up book to that first one comparing the these two villages, that have
many similarities, but whose differences highlight behaviours of the other.
While it may seem that I’m generalising I like writing from my own experience
and as one sociologist wrote, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our experience conjoins or connects us with others rather than the ways they
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something about human nature that is common to us all. The citizens of
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nearby parts of Greece. Takis often says the blue-eyed men he sometimes encounters
probably descend from the shepherds from north, from the mountains of
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Coming home from church</h4>
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Visiting with Family</h4>
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Taking a Morning Walk</h4>
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At Work</h4>
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Dressed for a National Celebration</h4>
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A Local Picnic</h3>
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Folk Dance Concert</h3>
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in Winter</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve
sometimes thought, when walking through the mists and trees of the Dandenong
ranges, listening to bird songs that are so different from European songs, that
this might have been what the world sounded like many eons ago, when
pre-historic birds filled the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walking on a misty winter morning the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Carrawong’s</span> musical songs echo through
across the valley. (The name they are given is after the sound of their song.) There must be something about that weather that increases
the echo, and their harmonious calls resonant back and forth and let you know
that there is an orchestra of them out there somewhere. They often come in a
group to the garden and one is brave enough to squeeze through the gaps and
onto my bird-feeding tray that is protected to keep larger birds like these
away.</span><br />
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know if there is a flock of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">White (sulfur crested) Cockatoos</span> nearby by their
screeching. This is the bird I do not want to come and eat from the bird tray,
it is a pest and the local council tries to discourage folk feeding them. When
they find you have sunflower seed or dried corn seeds they arrive and call all
their friends to join them. And if they hang around they like to peck the
woodwork, widow frames and balustrades. To discourage the larger birds I have
surrounded the tray with wire netting. And should they arrive I rush out, wave
and yell, and throw oranges at them! The other deterrent is to hang my shirt
over the table sometimes with my hat on top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This does not discourage the rosellas, but it seems to let
the Cockatoos know that I’m around. Plus, I usually only use the seed for smaller
birds its the parrot seed that attracts the Cockatoos.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Rosellas
</span>crowd the seed table whenever I put out seed. I don’t keep the tray always full
of seed as I think they need to do some of their own foraging, but I often feel
sorry for them at this time of year . These birds I can watch from my kitchen
window and I have noticed they have a serious hierarchy, with a dominant male
who takes possession of the tray if he can. The male will then often encourage
his partner to join him, but the kids and other families have to wait for their
turn, lining up along the edge of the roof or pecking up the seed fallen on the
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couple of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">King Parrots</span> come to feed at the bird tray now and then. These are
very friendly birds and once tapped on the window to let me know it was time to
feed him. Or he has flown down onto the barbeque table to ask for food. Their
colours are astounding, bright red and green. And though larger than the
rosellas they are smaller than the cockatoos and can squeeze onto the bird
table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are many <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Eastern Spinebills </span>dipping through the garden. At the moment they are sipping
the last fuchsia nectar in my garden and the honey from the early native flowers
in the garden next-door. These are pretty little birds, and hard to photograph.
One hit the window the other day and lay on the verandah for a while. I thought
it was dead, but when I went out it shook itself and flew up onto the
balustrade before taking off again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are many <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Brown Bush Wrens</span> in the garden. I’m not sure which they are, probably
fairy wrens. Like the spinebills they are hard to photograph, all you can catch
sight of is a shadow, twittering as they dart past. You wonder if you’ve just
seen a butterfly until you hear the twitter. But now and then a crowd of these
small creatures come dashing through the barbeque area, hop about on the ground
for a moment or two, before disappearing again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Kookaburras
</span>are cuddly looking birds, though they do have a more somber reputation and are
not past swallowing the young of other birds! They wake you early in the
morning, beginning their distinctive laughing call as the sun rises. When I go
for a walk I’ll see a Kookaburra swaying on the power lines overhead watching
me, perhaps keeping his feet warm. They are territorial, and my neighbour is
very familiar with those who visit her garden, she has names for them and even
knows the various generations. I don’t know those that come to my garden as
well but they know me. If I’m burning off they come flying up and sit on a
nearby tree. And if anything unusual is going on, like digging over a patch, or
spreading compost, you can be sure they are watching. I’ll occasionally throw
out some left over raw scraps of meat and it soon disappears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under
the bird table as soon as there is business above there will be some <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Bronze
Wing Pigeons</span>. They always amuse me. They can fly but are heavy and usually stay
on the ground. They’ll come bouncing down the steps and waddle to eat the
fallen seed. The other day, looking out of the kitchen window, I was giggling as
a male bronze wing began chasing a female around and around the rim of the
large bay tree flowerpot. They went around at least three times before giddily
flying off. These birds have a strange booming call and a new neighbour wondered
what power tool someone nearby was using, insisting was too regular to be a
birdcall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are some of my common and local bird visitors, and I must add one more, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Black Bird</span>. This bird is shy, and flighty. It comes to feed now and then but
more often is shrieking warnings and flying off into the bushes. And I think
that most of the nests that the grandchildren discover are blackbird nests. I
remember from my own childhood that they do next in foolishly visible and
lowdown places. And once I saw that wicked Kookaburra stealing the nestling
from a nest in the garden.</span><br />
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