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Now, before I start, I'm not being horrible. It was one of those classic events that was naff and cringeworthy but still heaps of fun in the long run.
"You must come to our Greek Night on Monday!" The receptionist had begged. We'd already read that it was a bit of a hoot, so we paid €40 to attend. Our only information was that it would be an authentic Greek night with food.
Now I was wondering where it would be held. I mean, how do you stop other guests attending who haven't paid to attend? Oh, I see; it's at the pool bar area, which is open-plan! So glad we paid forty Euros. The wife and I bought a drink and sat in the wicker chairs just as Kefalonia's version of Derrick and Dave, the local pub entertainers, started to set up; I have no idea what their real names are, but with his Bontempi organ, Derrick accompanied his mate Dave, who wandered around and strummed his Bouzouki in your face (I kid you not) all while sporting with a deadpan expression. "Smile, you git! I paid €40 for this!"
I've discovered the problem with Greek music is IT NEVER ENDS! We were treated to Zorba's Dance no less than three times! Clearly, Derrick and Dave's repertoire is limited, to say the least, although I suspect they would argue they were simply playing songs that the "Those Larger Swilling Brits!" have heard before.
What I didn't know was they were, in fact, playing for time and trying desperately to keep us occupied. Our host, Maria, who I honestly believe was drunk as a skunk, constantly took to the floor to bellow at us, imploring us to be happy and patient because the show had basically gone to pot, and she was desperately trying to cobble something together. Unfortunately, Derrick and Dave hit us with the most evil song in Europe is Siko Corpse Sirtaki. AKA the La La LaLaLaLa La La song Reader Beware! This song will take over your brain.
My missus in the green top, dancing to the damn song at the bottom of the page
The original dancers had let her down apparently, but she knew a couple of lads from the local kebab house who she must have been offered €100 to come and fling each other about for us.
I did laugh when they arrived. They were clearly kicked out of a cab at the bottom of the stairs, and Maria (Our host) promptly shoved them onto the patio. "Dance, monkey boy, dance!" To be fair, I have no idea if they were a couple of lads that Maria knew; all I know is I couldn't do what they did; my leg never went that high when I was twenty, let alone now.
Then came the exciting bit. They created a 'Fire Ring' on the patio floor while a lad danced inside it.
Maria then encouraged the audience to throw plates at the dancer's feet, hoping a chard of super-sharp glaze would take someone's eye out!
People were ducking and diving as the more overzealous and probably drunk participants endeavoured to hurl a cereal bowl to the ground with the greatest force possible, ensuring an almost napalm spread of white porcelain over most of us. Maria, of course, gave the best rendition as one of her staff handed her a stack of around twenty plates, which she devasted with another plate, making it look like a snowfall of pottery. The next day, the area was still covered in shards of plates and bowls, which was a bit dangerous, given that the bar was next to the pool. Like I said, it was fun, but I'm not sure it was worth €40.
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Unless you've been living under a rock, pretty much everyone knows that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. Personally, I couldn't care less; it seems to me far too many people have made a big deal out of it for no real valid reason other than maybe no longer being able to silence others for the most insane or obscure reasons. I saw a Toot the other day from an individual who had obviously come from Twitter to attempt to lecture Evan Prodromou.who for many of us, is the father of the Federated service. It reminded me of when we had him on The Dick Turpin Road Show.
Most of us 'originals' on the Fediverse come from the precursor identi.ca a service that was pretty similar to Mastodon and used ActivityStreams (Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which replaced ActivityStream). I can't remember exactly when I joined, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were 2008 when it was first launched.
Sadly, identi.ca ran into financial and operational difficulties; it was towards the end of the service that we interviewed Evan about what went wrong and what he went through: "It felt like I was on a burning bus with everyone shouting at me." said Evan.
Be warned, there is swearing, and the sound quality is poor, but tbh that was one of the fun features of the podcast. The recording is from 2012 and features me (Lots of very loud laughing), Matthew Copperwaite and Evan Prodromou. We still love you man.
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Short film of my grandson Ethan. Wait for 'The Money Shot'
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Carlie and I attempted to walk to Watersmeet, about a mile and three quarters from where we stayed in Lynmouth that day. We followed the water (it's not a river as such), which featured heavily in the 1952 Lynmouth Disaster when around 90 million tons of rain fell on North Devon and West Somerset on that day and effectively destroyed the village killing 34 people in total.
Sadly, Charlie and I never made it; we both got too worn out, especially when we would have to walk back again.
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The wind was that strong that it was blowing the sea up and over the cliff edge! It was both scary and exhilarating. The views are still stunning even when the weather is terrible.
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Recorded this on the sea cliffs of Countisbury on Thursady when we had pretty dangerous gusting wind coming off the sea. Crank the sound up and listen to the wind whinning through the communication areils.
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A really short video of Charlie at the Groomers enjoying the air-con. Harry, the guy who shot the film has groomed Charlie since day one so they know each other really well.
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A few months ago we figured the mother-in-law was getting a bit lonely and the family thought it would be a good idea to get her a dog. Given she is keen on Terriers we got her a Jack Russell cross which she named Bailey. Sadly, Bailey was a bit too much for her and she decided after a month that Bailey needed more than she could give and so we found a good family with children who were more than happy to have him. We've seen him since and he's very happy in his new home. This is just a short video of Charlie and Bailey playing in our garden.
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Can you believe it's the same dog? We joke in our house that "He's broken" Charlie is forever doing strange things and here is another example. Before Charlie, we had a Bichon Frise called Archie, who we sadly lost to cancer so when we looked for another dog, we didn't want a white one as it would remind us of poor Archie. Charlie was perfect, lots of brown patches and seemed to be a lively little chap from the week-old videos the breeder sent us. Then Charlie, true to form, as we would soon learn, decided to confound us all by turning white!
He does still have a very light brown patch on his back that shows through sometimes, and the tips of his ear hair are black. I often say to the wife: "I'm sure that breeder sold us the broken one!" :-D
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Charlie at Combe Martin 2019: His first time of seeing the sea and loving it.