A little drop of whisky A little drop of gin Make a lady wonder, Where the on earth she’s bin WHEN THE seventeenth century Dutch chemist Dr Sylvius set out to invent a blood-cleansing potion to help relieve patients suffering from acute kidney disorder, little did he imagine the massive effect his clear, rather innocuous looking tincture, would have on the world.
THE BIG NEWS of the week is of course the simultaneous worldwide release of The Matrix Revolutions, opening in Cyprus on the same day (last Wednesday) as it did in the US and Europe.
THE ITALIAN JOB *** DIRECTED BY F. Gary Gray STARRING Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green US 2003 111 mins. ALEX & EMMA **1/2 DIRECTED BY Rob Reiner STARRING Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Sophie Marceau US 2003 96 mins.
ALEX MITA meets the man whose private bird collection has become a park attracting thousands of visitors a week A BIRD collector for 25 years, Chris Christoforou has found that what started out as a small park showing one man’s collection has, in recent years, evolved into a £3 million project with thousands of visitors every month.
HAVE you stared at the contents of your wardrobe lately; wondered what the hell was going through your head when you bought that pair of shoes; how on earth you could have stepped out of the house wearing that dodgy dress last year? Old clothes, unfashionable clothes – they all clutter the cupboards (not to mention the embarrassing reminder of what we once thought cool).
MY LUNGS are pumping fit to burst in the thin mountain air, but I still feel as if I’m making no headway up the hill. The road feels as steep as a wall, and I’m not helped by the bottom three gears on my mountain bike, which have chosen the time I need them most to go on strike. It’s as if they flew planes for Cyprus Airways and it was the height of the season.
ALL parents love their children. Or at least they try to. But sometimes those children can be so difficult and frustrating.
WE MAY not have not succeeded in turning our patticha plantation into a Soviet republic quite yet, but it is certainly not through lack of trying. Many of the requirements are gradually being met, but the harmonisation process is moving very slowly and it might be years before we can proudly call ourselves a Soviet plantation.
PHILELEFTHEROS “Court order barring fan from football grounds” A court order preventing a fan from entering sports grounds for one year was issued on Thursday by the Nicosia Court. The first ever such court order was given to Harris Iacovou, 21 from Zakaki, who was accused of hooliganism and attacking a policeman.
ARCHAEOLOGIST and historian Anna Marangou said yesterday she was hopeful that works for the construction of the new city hall at the old municipal market in Nicosia would be put off for more than a year until scientists complete their research into the findings of mediaeval remains at the site.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
