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Living the Dream Jun 07, 2019 3 min read Free

Living the Dream - 50. Home Alone

Parteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I’m home alone for ten days. Mrs L is in Sicily, visiting the ancestral village and a friend or two. As an introverted extrovert, or extroverted introvert, or something like that, I am happy in my own company. While I’m relaxed about being home alone, Mrs L

Living the Dream May 31, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 49. Award-winning pooch

Spice is an award-winning pooch. On Saturday, “Rescue and Rehome Cyprus [https://www.facebook.com/RnRCy]” ran a fair at our local taverna, Lenia’s. Margaret had a table for her Grief Recovery Method [https://margaretlennon.com] site, not because she saw it as an opportunity to grow the business,

Living the Dream May 25, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 48. Roundup

Time for a roundup. Weather I wrote last week [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-47-hotting-up/] that things were hotting up. Haven’t they just. Temperatures hit 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) on the golf course this week. I prefer to walk a course, eschewing both a buggy and a trolley. I find

Living the Dream May 17, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 47. Hotting up

Hotting Up Cyprus is hotting up. Overnight, summer arrived. In true British style, we had been lamenting [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-45-coptic-gales/] how unsettled the weather was and how temperatures were below average. Then, boom. Temperatures leapt from low twenties (70f) centigrade to low thirties (90f). The dog appeared shocked initially,

Living the Dream May 10, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 46. The Trouble with Trees

The trouble with trees is that they keep growing. “Sorry. We can’t stay long, we have to get home to meet our tree surgeon.” Not words that I had ever imagined saying. My parents built the house nearly thirty years ago, and planted several trees then. One or two

Living the Dream May 04, 2019 1 min read Free

Living the Dream - 45. Coptic Gales

The Khamsheen Winds, the last of the Coptic Gales are here. The air is thick and heavy. Everybody has a sore throat and irritated eyes. Sounds like the opening of a Wilbur Smith novel. But it isn’t. Coptic Gales There are fourteen Coptic or Phoenician gales, between the end

Living the Dream Apr 26, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 44. Contrarian

Contrarian Winetasting. Supper. Up early for golf, back home for a swim, record a podcast, then out for grilled meat. That’s more like it, truly living the dream. Nothing contrarian about that. I wrote last week about expats [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-43-expat/] and the collective consciousness. Often this group-think

Living the Dream Apr 19, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 43. Expat

Expat If you choose to live the dream, to move [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-1-can-we-do-it/] to a new country, you will become an expatriate, an expat. I have been one, on and off, for most of my life. I left school and went to live in France and was away for

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