It is lovely but ...let me take you to a
comedy unfolding in Corfu in relation to
swimming pools - possibly for a revived
version of Aristophanes’ comedy ‘The Frogs’.
It is September in Greece. There has been one
hour of rain since April. On the beautiful
Ionian island of Corfu the authorities have
been so anxious about water they have
considered turning away the summer geese
rather than face the health hazards of such
gigantic flocks lacking water for their
pleasures. The gods have surrounded this
paradise with a multitude of small coves
facing crystalline sea, gifting men with
winter rain in abundance to replenish
reservoirs of water deep in the island’s
rocks, but the geese in their eccentric
yearnings have found sea-girt shores
inadequate and so, for their delectation, men
have dug thousands of concrete swimming pools
across the island which they fill and refill
with hard water from the island’s aquifers,
laced, for cleanliness, with chlorine.
A progressive architect is seeking, in these
times of apprehension about this waste of
precious water, the coarseness of concrete
swimming pools which lie empty for the winter
months collecting leaves and moss, and the
hazards of chlorine - revealed by EU risk
analysis - to promote pools that imitate
nature; pools that do not need annual
emptying, regular scrubbing and refilling
from mains water. He has, as an experiment,
constructed, beneath the eves of his house,
which views the sea through the tops of olive
trees, a shallow edged irregular rain fed
pond which, in draught, he can top up
economically from the mains.
This natural pool is arboured by climbers,
edged by flowers, with lilies, papyrus and
purifying reeds lining its shallows. Above it
swallows swoop. Colourful fish, small and
large, swim happily in its deep but limpid
centre, surfacing excitedly when anyone
approaches. This pond, dappled with the sun
that shines through the overhanging vine,
adorns the house, providing its occupiers and
their guests with the pleasure of bathing or
paddling in clean, often soft, water or
dappling their feet to enjoy the cool
toe-kissing of golden carp. At night frogs
visit. In spring it is their trysting place.
The wide adoption of such ponds could solve
the island’s looming water crisis since they
keep themselves clean all year round, need no
chlorine and no refilling, making full use of
winter rain, stored in adjoining sternas or
reservoirs for dryer months, harbour fish
that eat mosquito larvae and frogs and, being
shallow edged, are safer where children are
about.
The architect’s once friendly neighbour, has,
under the goading of his envious soul and a
covetous wife preoccupied by disparities in
strimas between the two properties, been
transformed into a Lopachkin type of
orchard-chopping self-made bread-hater. The
Gods, who have schemed to have the island
destroyed by an over proliferation of summer
geese as a lesson to men, now use him as a
gadfly to punish our hero and frustrate his
plans to solve the island’s water crisis.
Achilles, overtaken by fits of uncontrollable
rage begins to hurl of imprecations over his
neighbour’s wall, then rocks, and - as the
play opens one warm winded moonlit midnight –
he climbs the wall, naked, hair awry, and
makes a mad violent midnight physical attack
on the architect and his lover, while his
wife, her hair streaming, urges him on from
the top of the wall, screaming through the
night that she is a sorceress who mates with
frogs. The police - comedic figures - have
been unhasty in reaction to the gradual break
down of civility, but, following report of
this dramatic incident, they take note of the
architect’s plea for their protection. They
phone Achilles from their station in the
nearby town, hoping to effect a
reconciliation of neighbours. However,
Achilles, in his rage, uses such porcupine
language to the police, the chief beedle is
provoked. He rises from his night desk,
summons aid, and in the gendarmerie 4x4,
drives out along the dark olive lined roads
to arrest Achilles and bring criminal charges
against him. In the second act, Achilles’
lawyer, an opportunist rare in his
profession, has drawn up a simultaneous civil
charge sheet against his client’s victim,
based on Article 989 A.K. It claims that
Achilles was provoked ‘beyond reason’ by
‘sleep deprivation’ caused by the ‘noise
pollution of croaking from his neighbour’s
frog farm’ which has led, collaterally, to an
‘invasion of mosquitoes and toxic smells
threatening his client’s well being’, making
life’ so intolerable for him and his family’
that he seeks to have his neighbour sent to
prison or fined thousands of euros on each of
several counts, and asks the court’s
permission to take such ‘drastic measures’ as
may be necessary to end this menace democracystreet.blogspot.com/search?q=frog+fa
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vagaman. (67 months ago | reply)
moon and sun award
I saw this magical photo at places of magic in Greece pool
~Idan (67 months ago | reply)
imagine to stay there! wow! i love it! pool next to the sea! =)
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Sibad (67 months ago | reply)
It is lovely but ...let me take you to a comedy unfolding in Corfu in relation to swimming pools - possibly for a revived version of Aristophanes’ comedy ‘The Frogs’. It is September in Greece. There has been one hour of rain since April. On the beautiful Ionian island of Corfu the authorities have been so anxious about water they have considered turning away the summer geese rather than face the health hazards of such gigantic flocks lacking water for their pleasures. The gods have surrounded this paradise with a multitude of small coves facing crystalline sea, gifting men with winter rain in abundance to replenish reservoirs of water deep in the island’s rocks, but the geese in their eccentric yearnings have found sea-girt shores inadequate and so, for their delectation, men have dug thousands of concrete swimming pools across the island which they fill and refill with hard water from the island’s aquifers, laced, for cleanliness, with chlorine.
A progressive architect is seeking, in these times of apprehension about this waste of precious water, the coarseness of concrete swimming pools which lie empty for the winter months collecting leaves and moss, and the hazards of chlorine - revealed by EU risk analysis - to promote pools that imitate nature; pools that do not need annual emptying, regular scrubbing and refilling from mains water. He has, as an experiment, constructed, beneath the eves of his house, which views the sea through the tops of olive trees, a shallow edged irregular rain fed pond which, in draught, he can top up economically from the mains.
This natural pool is arboured by climbers, edged by flowers, with lilies, papyrus and purifying reeds lining its shallows. Above it swallows swoop. Colourful fish, small and large, swim happily in its deep but limpid centre, surfacing excitedly when anyone approaches. This pond, dappled with the sun that shines through the overhanging vine, adorns the house, providing its occupiers and their guests with the pleasure of bathing or paddling in clean, often soft, water or dappling their feet to enjoy the cool toe-kissing of golden carp. At night frogs visit. In spring it is their trysting place. The wide adoption of such ponds could solve the island’s looming water crisis since they keep themselves clean all year round, need no chlorine and no refilling, making full use of winter rain, stored in adjoining sternas or reservoirs for dryer months, harbour fish that eat mosquito larvae and frogs and, being shallow edged, are safer where children are about.
The architect’s once friendly neighbour, has, under the goading of his envious soul and a covetous wife preoccupied by disparities in strimas between the two properties, been transformed into a Lopachkin type of orchard-chopping self-made bread-hater. The Gods, who have schemed to have the island destroyed by an over proliferation of summer geese as a lesson to men, now use him as a gadfly to punish our hero and frustrate his plans to solve the island’s water crisis. Achilles, overtaken by fits of uncontrollable rage begins to hurl of imprecations over his neighbour’s wall, then rocks, and - as the play opens one warm winded moonlit midnight – he climbs the wall, naked, hair awry, and makes a mad violent midnight physical attack on the architect and his lover, while his wife, her hair streaming, urges him on from the top of the wall, screaming through the night that she is a sorceress who mates with frogs. The police - comedic figures - have been unhasty in reaction to the gradual break down of civility, but, following report of this dramatic incident, they take note of the architect’s plea for their protection. They phone Achilles from their station in the nearby town, hoping to effect a reconciliation of neighbours. However, Achilles, in his rage, uses such porcupine language to the police, the chief beedle is provoked. He rises from his night desk, summons aid, and in the gendarmerie 4x4, drives out along the dark olive lined roads to arrest Achilles and bring criminal charges against him. In the second act, Achilles’ lawyer, an opportunist rare in his profession, has drawn up a simultaneous civil charge sheet against his client’s victim, based on Article 989 A.K. It claims that Achilles was provoked ‘beyond reason’ by ‘sleep deprivation’ caused by the ‘noise pollution of croaking from his neighbour’s frog farm’ which has led, collaterally, to an ‘invasion of mosquitoes and toxic smells threatening his client’s well being’, making life’ so intolerable for him and his family’ that he seeks to have his neighbour sent to prison or fined thousands of euros on each of several counts, and asks the court’s permission to take such ‘drastic measures’ as may be necessary to end this menace
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vagaman. (67 months ago | reply)
that should be the longest comment ever written!
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wow
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Hi, I work for an italian no-profit consumer association called Federconsumatori Bologna and I've included your beautiful photo (with attribution to you, at the bottom of the page) on an informative article about consumers' rights. You can see your photo here:
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TRC OFF (36 months ago | reply)
Than YOU rogineggblue77.
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