If you are either on holiday already or packing right now (breathe and take regular breaks, I know it’s hard), think of me relaxing on a beach in Crete enjoying a much-deserved holiday after a year and a half of being in Cyprus.

I hear the most absurd things sometimes. For instance, the other day one of my neighbours was saying how people find it impossible to eat as much food in the summer as they do when the temperatures are lower. OK, I agree with the fact that sometimes it’s so hot all that can interest you is getting yourself to a cool location in a hole of ice.

I’m going to be honest. I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for a good half an hour unable to perform my weekly duties of writing this page. This is due to the simple yet thrilling fact that I am going on holiday (well, actually, by the time you read this I will be on holiday).

In an attempt to save money, my partner and myself have taken up the ultimate hobby of watching DVDs. We either rent new films out or borrow oldies and classics from friends, always sticking to our vital goal of not spending unnecessary cash on a hectic nightlife or chic restaurants.

Reinvention is what Madge is all about. I have reminded myself of this every time in the last ten years that she has made a disappointing endeavour.

That’s not to say I was a massive fan of anything she released before 1996, but at least I understood where she was coming from; an enterprising, intelligent and innovative businesswoman who knew how to set the style.

A brief history of froth

As the temperatures remain high, musings on the background of that favourite of thirst quenchers, the frapp?

Nicole Krauss

The Sunday Times recommends this book for summer reading and I would have to a gree with them. A gentle book, the History of Love examines, well, love.

Poetic licence, anyone?

Some time ago, in early July, I was attending a launch of a book, Building Bridges Across the Green Line by Benjamin Broome, at Nicosia’s Fulbright Commission.

Through the decades

Here’s the second part of our annual summer feature “Through the Decades”, taking advantage of the dearth of new movies at the cinema to go back a decade at a time, ending up in 1946 next Sunday.

1976

1976 facts and figures:
Top 5 Money-Makers (US):
Rocky
A Star is Born
King Kong
All the President’s Men