About Chris Alden

Chris Alden is a freelance writer specialising in consumer features for national media - and advertorials and web copy for commercial clients.

Selected journalism

Environment

Screen on the green
25.01.08, Green Futures: Hollywood's carbon footprint

Travel

Paris, je t'aime
01.12.07, Guardian Unlimited: Paris for the business traveller

Film

A walk in the woods
01.11.07, Telegraph: Black Park in Buckinghamshire, location for countless British movies

Careers

All in the mind
01.11.07, Guardian: The new science of 'neuroleadership'

Technology

Log on to the revolution
22.02.07, Telegraph: Time to move into the broadband fast lane, says Chris Alden

Thursday February 14, 2008

So Greek

Greeks are famous for their incomprehensible proverbs, but here’s one saying I absolutely love.

The phrase is “Kathe persi kai kalutera”. It means, literally, “Every last year and better”.

Or, to put it another way, every year things get worse.

For maximum effect, to be said by old men sitting in coffee-shops whose wives are at home slaving over a hot stove.

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