5000 EURO REWARD FOR RECOVERY OF STOLEN GOODS

THIS MESSAGE IS IN ENGLISH BELOW. PLEASE READ. IT COMES TO ME VIA MR KOSTAS VIDALIS, WHO ASKS THAT I POST IT ON MY BLOG. IT CONCERNS THE RECOVERY OF STOLLEN GOODS FROM A VILLA NEAR MILATOS.

ΕΙΔΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΕΙΔΑΝ ΟΙ ΑΛΟΔΑΠΟΙ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟΙ ΣΤΟ ΣΙΣΙ ΛΑΣΙΘΙΟΥ ΒΛΕΠΟΝΤΑΣ ΝΑ ΑΝΟΙΓΟΥΝ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΚΛΕΒΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΣΠΙΤΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΧΩΡΙΣ Η ΑΣΤYΝΟΜΙΑ ΝΑ ΚΑΝΕΙ ΤΙΠΟΤΑ....ΕΤΣΙ ΕΝΑ ΖΕΥΓΑΡΙ ΑΠΟΦΑΣHΣΕ ΝΑ ΓΕΜΙΣΗ ΟΛΟΚΛHΡΗ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΠΙΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ..ΜΗΠΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΡΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΑΝΤΙΚΗΜΕΝΑ ΤΟΥΣ!!!!!!!

ANAKOIΝΩΣΗ

... ΕΜΕΙΣ (Ο ΡΕΓΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΓΚΑΜΠΡΙΕΛΑ ) ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΟΥΜΕ AΝΤΑΜΟΙΒΗ
5000 ΕΥΡΩ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΑΥΤΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΘΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΕΨΕΙ Ή ΠΟΥ ΘΑ ΒΟΗΘΗΣΕΙ ΝΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΑΦΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΥ ΚΛΑΠΗΚΑΝ ΤΗ ΝΥΧΤΑ ΤΗΣ 10ΗΣ ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ (20:00 22:30)
ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΜΑΣ ΠΟΥ ΒΡΙΣΚΕΤΕ ΣΤΟ ΣΥΓΚΡΟΤΗΜΑ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΙΩΝ ΣΤΟΝ ΔΡΟΜΟ ΓΙΑ ΜΙΛΑΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΙΜΕΝΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΔΙΑΣΤΑΥΡΩΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΟ MINOS IMPERIAL

- 2 ΦΟΡΗΤΟΥΣ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΕΣ DELL (1 ΓΚΡΙ ΚΑΙ 1 ΜΑΥΡΟ)
- 1 ΡΟΛΟΙ ΧΕΙΡΟΣ DIOR (ΑΣΗΜΙ ΜΕ ΡΟΖ) ΚΑΙ 1 ΡΟΛΟΙ SWATCH (ΑΣΗΜΙ)
- 1 ΠΕΝΑ MONTBLANC (ΜΑΥΡΗ),
2 ΣΤΥΛΟ DIPLOMAT (ΜΑΥΡΑ)
- 1 ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ ΜΗΧΑΝΗ LUMIX (ΜΑΥΡΗ)
- 1 ΚΙΝΗΤΟ ΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΟ BLACKBERRY (ΜΑΥΡΟ),
2 ΚΙΝΗΤΑ ΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΑ NOKIA (1 ΡΟΖ ΚΑΙ 1 ΜΠΛΕ)
Η ΑΝΤΑΜΟΙΒΗ ΞΕΠΕΡΝΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΛΕΜΜΕΝΩΝ .
ΜΠΟΡΕΙΤΕ ΝΑ ΚΑΛΕΣΕΤΕ ΣΤΟ ...6944547002 ..

PLEASE READ!!!
WE (REGIS AND GABRIELA) OFFER A REWARD OF 5000 ΕUROS TO THE PERSON WHO WILL BRING BACK OR WHO WILL HELP TO FIND THE GOODS STOLEN IN THE NIGHT OF 10 NOVEMBER (20:00 -22:30) FROM THE VILLA THAT IS SITUATED IN THE COMPLEX ON THE WAY TO MILATOS (CROSSROADS WITH THE WAY TO HOTEL MINOS IMPERIAL):
- 2 LAPTOPS DELL (1 GREY AND 1 BLACK)
- 1 WATCH DIOR (SILVER WITH PINK) AND 1 WATCH SWATCH (SILVER)
-1 PEN MONTBLANC (BLACK), 2 PENS DIPLOMAT(BLACK)
-1 PHOTOCAMERA LUMIX (BLACK)
-1 PHONE BLACKBERRY (BLACK), 2 PHONES NOKIA (1 PINK AND 1 BLUE)
THE REWARD IS HIGHER THAN THE VALUE OF THE GOODS STOLLEN.
YOU CAN CALL AT …6944547002

Please help if you can. Jane x

THE FALKLAND CONFLICT 1982 REMEMBERED

In remebrance of all who gave their lives for their country.

Two poems which I wrote way back.

WE SHALL NOT FORGET OUR TOM – THE FALKLAND CONFLICT 1982

But we waited, our eyes

Like the lights of the weaving shed,

Silently watching the angry rise,

Black silhouettes, our heads

Among boulders bobbed blind

Through the wet, muddy bed,

And bursting, our minds

Saw the red of the Matador’s bull,

And the snorting began, and the pound

Of the charge, and the beat

Of our feet as we zapped and yelled,

And fired, and shelled, and hit -

Aaagghh! Was it Hell

We offered those beef-boys that night -

Our blood-curdling cry, was it Hell,

Like the Jehad, we fought

Till the mount was our own,

And the colours were bought

With the blood of our homespun

Pride. The bazooka man (who died,

My friend, my aide, was one

Whose northern fabric frayed:

Blown to bits by an Argy. Bomb)

Now lies in communal grave.

We shall not forget our Tom,

Mount Kent, Mount William, or Tumbledown,

Or the long slog there from

Plymouth sound, where our band

Played us out with imperial rock,

And Aunt Flo waved a flag, and a hand.

Copyright Jane Sharp

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Chapped legs knocking,
Face icy red,
Remembering, remembering,
Remembering the dead,
Remembering what?
On that cold November day,
In the midst of dark statues
Shrouded in grey.
Like great looming tombs,
In Victorian guise,
Stiff to attention,
Tears in their eyes,
Two big bosomed ladies,
Coloured with honours,
Arms full of flowers,
And heads in fox-collars,
Stepped forward with grace
(how could they faulter)
Like virginal nuns
Approaching the altar.

All noise ceased: thought filled the skies;
A little girl prayed with tight-shut eyes.
The bugler played that familiar tune,
And the flag of the Legion was
Slowly brought down.
A motor car passed,
Again, and again,
Abide with me,
Amen,
Amen.

Copyright Jane Sharp

It has been a wonderfully warm, cosy afternoon by the fire, here in Crete.
Love Jane x

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

The Christmas Truce

A poem for Armistice Day

Carol Ann Duffy · 11/11/2011 · guardian.co.uk

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• Jane Sharp

Illustration by David Roberts Christmas Eve in the trenches of France,
the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man's Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .

The moon, like a medal, hung in the clear, cold sky.
Silver frost on barbed wire, strange tinsel,
sparkled and winked.
A boy from Stroud stared at a star
to meet his mother's eyesight there.

An owl swooped on a rat on the glove of a corpse.
In a copse of trees behind the lines,
a lone bird sang.
A soldier-poet noted it down – a robin
holding his winter ground –

then silence spread and touched each man like a hand.
Somebody kissed the gold of his ring;
a few lit pipes;
most, in their greatcoats, huddled,
waiting for sleep.

The liquid mud had hardened at last in the freeze.
But it was Christmas Eve; believe; belief
thrilled the night air,
where glittering rime on unburied sons
treasured their stiff hair.

The sharp, clean, midwinter smell held memory.
On watch, a rifleman scoured the terrain –
no sign of life,
no shadows, shots from snipers,
nowt to note or report.

The frozen, foreign fields were acres of pain.
Then flickering flames from the other side
danced in his eyes,
as Christmas Trees in their dozens shone,
candlelit on the parapets,
and they started to sing, all down the German lines.
 
Men who would drown in mud, be gassed, or shot,
or vaporised
by falling shells, or live to tell,
heard for the first time then –
Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht. Alles schläft, einsam wacht …

Cariad, the song was a sudden bridge
from man to man;
a gift to the heart from home,
or childhood, some place shared …

When it was done, the British soldiers cheered.
A Scotsman started to bawl The First Noel
and all joined in,
till the Germans stood, seeing
across the divide,
the sprawled, mute shapes of those who had died.

All night, along the Western Front, they sang,
the enemies –
carols, hymns, folk songs, anthems,
in German, English, French;
each battalion choired in its grim trench.

So Christmas dawned, wrapped in mist,
to open itself
and offer the day like a gift
for Harry, Hugo, Hermann, Henry, Heinz …
with whistles, waves, cheers, shouts, laughs.
Frohe Weinachten, Tommy! Merry Christmas, Fritz!

A young Berliner,
brandishing schnapps,
was the first from his ditch to climb.
A Shropshire lad ran at him like a rhyme.

Then it was up and over, every man,
to shake the hand
of a foe as a friend,
or slap his back like a brother would;

exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew,
Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars,
beer, sauerkraut;
or chase six hares, who jumped
from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball
and make of a battleground a football pitch.

I showed him a picture of my wife.
Ich zeigte ihm
ein Foto meiner Frau.
Sie sei schön, sagte er.
He thought her beautiful, he said.

They buried the dead then, hacked spades
into hard earth
again and again, till a score of men
were at rest, identified, blessed.
Der Herr ist mein Hirt … my shepherd, I shall not want.

And all that marvellous, festive day and night,
they came and went,
the officers, the rank and file,
their fallen comrades side by side

beneath the makeshift crosses of midwinter graves …
… beneath the shivering, shy stars
and the pinned moon
and the yawn of History;
the high, bright bullets
which each man later only aimed at the sky.

The Christmas Truce, by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by David Roberts, is published by Picador (£5.99). To order a copy for £4.79 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop

Love Jane x

NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT SWORN IN

Watch Atlas sprint

by George Gilson 11 Nov 2011

Members of the newly appointed government swear in during a ceremony at the presidential mansion in Athens, 11 November 2011. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis Lucas Papademos’ new coalition government is hitting the ground running, with a cabinet meeting following the swearing in ceremony at 4pm. The release of a sixth tranche of EU-IMF loans, to the tune of eight billion euros, is the government’s most pressing priority. Then it must undertake the daunting task of passing and implementing the harshest austerity programme in decades. The new government’s programme will be presented in a televised address by Papademos, during the government’s first confidence vote, expected by Sunday night. The new cabinet is the product of 24-hours of feverish negotiations, reflecting balances within and between parties, as well as between the new prime minister and the three coalition partners. The vast majority of ministers are from Pasok -most keeping their former posts - which retains its parliamentary majority. But there is broad, high-level representation by the other two coalition partners: main opposition conservative New Democracy and, further to the right, Yiorgos Karatzaferis’ Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos). In a sign of stability, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos and two of his deputies will stay on. But it is clear that economic policy will be fashioned and monitored personally by Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank. As deputy finance minister, a top economic advisor to conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, University of Macedonia macroeconomics professor Yiannis Mourmouras, will guarantee an input of ND, which has maintained it has a better economic policy mix than that followed by Greece’s EU-IMF lenders. New Democracy’s fate is now inextricably linked to that of Greece’s bailout, as the main opposition has picked up the top portfolios of foreign affairs and defence. Former European Commissioner Stavros Dimas, a moderate who until now was one of two ND vice-presidents, will undertake to repair Greece’s damaged credibility both within the EU and internationally. He takes office at a time of economic crisis when many believe there may be challenges to Greece’s national interests. Mild-mannered, Dimas has held top cabinet posts in older ND governments. Dimitris Avramopoulos - a former diplomat-turned-politician who has served as health minister and earlier as Athens mayor, takes the defence portfolio at a time of heightened Turkish threats over Cyprus’ hydrocarbon programme. Papademos chose one of his most trusted confidants, former Pasok minister Tassos Giannitsis to assume the crucial interior ministry. There, he must lay the groundwork for the restructuring and rationalisation of Greek public administration. He must also undertake the painful implementation of the unified pay structure, with deep, new civil service wage cuts. Both Papademos and Giannitsis, another disciple of fiscal discipline, were close friends and in the inner political circle of former Pasok premier Costas Simitis, who ruled with the mantra of modernisation. The new boy on the block is Yiorgos Karatzaferis’ rightwing Laos party. He was rewarded for his long-standing advocacy of a coalition with four government portfolios, taken by his top MPs and his party’s vice-president. Makis Voridis MP takes the key infrastructure transport, and networks ministry, at a time when the unblocking of four major highway projects is crucial for releasing EU funding and spurring development. He will also have to deal with the huge backlash from taxi drivers and truckers against the liberalisation of their industries. Horst Reichenbach, the head of the European Commission Task Force that will oversee implementation of the Greek bailout terms, cited the highway projects as a top priority. The other three Laos posts are at the level of deputy minister, including Adonis Georgiadis as deputy development minister, responsible for shipping. Many, including ND, have advocated the restoration of a separate shipping ministry, as Greek shipowners play a leading role in international shipping. Asteris Rontoulis becomes deputy minister for rural development and food. Former ambassador Georgios Georgiou, Laos vice-president and Karatzaferis’ closest party confidant, will serve as alternate defence minister. Four women will sit in the cabinet: Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou, Alternate Foreign Minister Mariliza Xenoyiannakopoulou, Alternate Interior Minister Fofi Yennimata, and Deputy Education Minister Evi Christofilopoulou. All four were in the former Pasok government. The parliamentary debate (usually three days) leading to the constitutionally mandated vote of confidence is expected to begin later today or tomorrow. Received after the swearing-in ceremony by the outgoing premier at the prime minister’s mansion, Papademos praised George Papandreou’s “huge effort over the last two years” toward stabilisation and adjustment.

Supermarket Shopping in Crete November 2011

As a record of what some of the supermarket foodstuff costs, I took this video in Neapolis yesterday. It will be interesting to compare a few prices in a month's time from now. As you can see our local Xalkiadakis supermarket is well set out, has a good selection of fresh veg and a passable fresh meat counter. It is a clean shop and the assistants are very pleasant (except for bad hair days - and we all get them from time to time). Outside there is good parking. Generally speaking there is a variety of food and necessities such as cleaning materials, toilet rolls etc,. It is only a small shop, but quite adequate for basic weekly needs. And parking is very easy.

I am living with my limp and looking forward to a good long walk with no pain.

Last night we had friends round for supper and I overdosed on cheesecake. The result was a dodgy tummy all night. Only myself to blame! I missed Greek class as a consequence and am very cross with myself.

Hello Eva - yes it was a pleasant coffee break.
Hello The Gang and Eric, thinking of you this Saturday evening, hope all is well.
Happy Saturday to everyone.

Love Jane x

Neapolis, Crete, in November Sunshine

It was so good to get out of the house today, but foot is far from being okay. I'm still limping. Maybe another week will see it right. Apart from the slight inconvenience I'm enjoying this lovely November weather. I must say that I am feeling very price conscious at the moment, as the money in my purse is not stretching very far. I filmed my visit to the supermarket in Neapolis, and I will post it tomorrow. It is really as a record of today's grocery prices. The cheapest sugar I could find was 1.12 euro, maybe it is cheaper in Lidle's but the petrol cost to get there would wipe out the saving. My bargain of the day was a half litre of wine and mezze for 2.50 euro, not bad for two people, but it wasn't anywhere posh! Still, you'd be hard pushed to find anywhere posh in Neapolis. Beggers can't be choosers as they say!

NEW PRIME MINISTER TO BE NAMED TOMORROW

Meeting to name new PM ends without agreement

Political leaders are to meet with President Karolos Papoulias for a second time on Thursday at 10 a.m. after talks aimed at agreeing on the formation of an interim government reached an impasse on Wednesday.
It had appeared that parliamentary speaker Filippos Petsalnikos was to be appointed prime minister after Prime Minister George Papandreou made a televised address announcing he was stepping down.
However, a meeting with New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras and Papoulias, which began at about 6.30 p.m. ended without agreement.
The leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) Giorgos Karatzaferis stormed out of the talks, claiming that he had been kept waiting in a side room while Papandreou, Samaras and Papoulias held talks in a meeting room.
Karatzaferis said that he rejected the option of appointing Petsalnikos, an experienced politician but with a long association with PASOK.
The LAOS leader said that former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos is the only suitable candidate.

Oh dear! The talking goes on!

Love Jane x