Dad’s Gone to Poland

Dad’s Gone to Poland

The Greek God(zilla) left for Poland in the early hours of yesterday morning. He has gone to follow the Croatian football team at Euro 2012 – in a work capacity mind, not as a groupie.…

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Long Locks Gone

Long Locks Gone

When I called the Greek God(zilla) from JFK airport before boarding my return flight home, he proudly reeled off a list of all the things he had accomplished while I had been away. These included: –…

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Wrong Side of the Bed

Wrong Side of the Bed

The Greek God(zilla) left for work this morning, leaving me with a list of jobs to do around the house on this wet Bank holiday Monday. Unload the dishwasher, change the bed sheets, make a…

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Cats & Dogs

Cats & Dogs

At the end of the movie, The War of The Roses, Danny DeVito’s character concludes the moral of the story is that dog people should only marry dog people and cat people should only marry other cat…

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A flat tyre

A flat tyre

The Greek God(zilla), Zachy and I were all invited to Sunday lunch at a friends house a couple of weeks ago.  These friends live locally to us, probably no more than a 20-min walk away (downhill)…

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Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday

When the Greek God(zilla) and I first got together, I was living with my sister in a lovely garden flat in Maida Vale. There is lots to like about Maida Vale.  It’s distance to Selfridges…

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Driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas

Both the Greek God(zilla) and I come from big families. I love that Zachy will grow up surrounded by cousins, godbrothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles and many extended family friends.  I love how Zachy can and…

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Food & frolics!

Food & frolics!

I bet you are all dying to know whether my inner Domestic Greek Goddess was released the weekend of the Greek God(zilla)’s birthday? Well, I completed all the dishes on the menu and that is the…

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Domestic (Greek) Goddess in the making

Domestic (Greek) Goddess in the making

The Greek God(zilla)’s sister, Eva, said when advising me on what shoes to wear to her twin boys’ christening, that if I was a full Greek, I’d definitely wear the black sequin heels. ‘Do you…

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Barolo 1969

Barolo 1969

For the Greek God(zilla)’s 40th birthday, his sister, BB, gifted him a bottle of Barolo from the year he was born – 1969. For two years we carefully stored and protected this bottle, waiting for…

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Happy Name Day

Happy Name Day

In Greece, everyone celebrates the “Name Day” of the saint that bears the same name as them.  Yesterday was the Greek God(zilla)’s Name Day and in Greece last night, all the Panagiotis’ had a great…

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Say it with flowers

Say it with flowers

My husband, the Greek God(zilla), popped out to the shops yesterday afternoon to get some more Dettol.  He is obsessed with a local cat at the moment, who has taken to using our back garden…

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