Hazel
a life
so far
in pictures & captions
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......not
so sweet sixteen...... |
......when I left home and moved into a damp basement. |
After
a brief spell at University College London, where I spent more
time in the Bar than the Lecture Theatre, discovered drugs, lived
with a variety of unsuitable men, got a haircut and became active
in the London squatting scene......
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......I
went on a two week holiday to Greece and came back a month or so
later.......
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 ......an expert in peeling potatoes! |
 
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A few years at Greenham Common & Comiso - with no plumbing - were followed by moving into possibly the most uninhabitable squat I have ever slept in where the plumbing was something else......
Some photos of Greenham are here
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......and I decided a change of scenery was in order and moved to Lendas, in Crete...... |
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......where
I found a beach, built a bender and did very little - and still had
no plumbing!
And then the money ran out......
......so I got a winter job growing tomatoes.......
 ......sleeping with tomatoes...... |
 ......washing out tomato stains...... |
 ......eating tomatoes...... |
......and still no plumbing!!!
After a hard winter I came back to London and moved into a squat that did have plumbing. But London was cold and the hurricane was even windier than Crete so by the following May I was ready for another holiday.
I went on a 2 week charter flight, fell in love and moved back to the tomato farm with no plumbing......
......and got the guys to build a bathroom using water from the mountain stream.
I eventually left Lendas and moved through a variety of homes & jobs - such as olive picking in Moires, waitressing & gift shop managing in Agia Galini and teaching English in Iraklion.
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Then when I got pregnant we moved back to the south coast to the small fishing village of Kokkinos Pirgos - where first Anna, and then Chrissie, spent the first few years of their lives until my relationship broke down and I came back to England to Shropshire - where the kids discovered snow!
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Meanwhile the kids grew and grew and grew ............
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