IT Haiku

Savvy sushi link. There are people I must send the link to individually, such as she of giftless Yules.

I submit one of my own:

Gouvia Christmas
Ouzo and IT Haiku
Sula's moussakaPS: seems it was chosen

Rich and Useful Links

*My* pruned pick of the incredibly useful sites sent round by the ever-helpful Jacqui Norman of must-see site, Fotolibra:

• BBC
  
• Papers round the world
  
• How stuff works
  
• Exchange rates
  
• Measurements &Conversions
  
• Times and Dates
  
• Etymology
  
• Words to that fave song
  
• Internet lingo dictionary
  
• IT words
  

The full list in its fully glory is here.

Rainy walk through Gouvia

Slip-road leading to our local tourist 'inferno', Gouvia.

Not looking such an inferno, out of season and in the rain

Bijou corner eaterie of taste and discretion.

In summer, you can't even *see* the entrance to the Adonis Club, so packed is the patio with gorgeous people thronging to get in.

With his strategically flapping beach towel, Adonis is over-dressed compared to some of the club's habitués in this hottest of Corfu nightspots. 

The local bakery was the only shop open during my soggy sojourn.

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus: you just *know* that Ulysses would've cut short his Odyssey if he'd known there was a welcoming Poco Loco tex-mex monstrosity at the other end.

Me and the breadshop customer trudge our splashy route home.

CIGLESS IN KOMMENO

Had I better camera, you'd see the stunning clarity of the view thanks to last night's torrential rain. As it is, we're at Vivianne's Kommeno hideaway (as her palace is being built), indulging in torrential glugging.
Naturally, I left my cigs behind and had to beg off everyone *including* Saskia, for the umpteenth year running.  

Viv's garden with knick-knacks. It's empty of people because they're all *behind* me inside knocking back the amazing array of decent booze V laid on, not to mention snacks galore.  

Sunday all-dayish trough and sluice chez Vivianne at which le tout raffish Corfu seemed to turn up, including la bellissima Saskia. This is a decent view turned dull by my amateur lensmanship. 

View from Vivianne's. Actually, the even better view is inside, of the groaning table of drinks and snacks, the blazing fire, the grand piano ... and the ashtrays
... my dear, a hostess who lays out ashtrays and allows her riff-raff guests to puff to heart's content. *That's* entertaining.  

Homage to a noble guitar

The guitar that saw it all - Ibanez #385, purchased Clifford Essex, London WC1 - veteran of London/Tours/Paris busking * Corfu courting (including the crucial chords of wooing Stephanie); the lot - still perfectly pitched in bucolic Corfiot.

Salut, vieux copain!