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About
This site started nearly a fifteen years ago when I lived in the village of Kirazli in Aegean Turkey (hence the name), it has been through various incarnations since. When, inevitably, I have to again rewrite this website I always leave this page until last because it is the hardest page to change.
I am lucky enough to live here in a beautiful peaceful valley with my partner, my rescue dog – Emma – and a Norwegian Forest Cat with a bad attitude.
I write, I photograph things, I get grumpy if not regularly dipped in sea water and I love feeding people. Other obsessions come and go over time but the writing never ends.
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Just after we had finished the house my husband died, very suddenly, and I lost my best friend, the better half of me and my inspiration.
For years afterwards I stayed on in Turkey; I ran a small boutique holiday rental and I wrote, lots, from creative writing to business advice to property advice to travel articles. Have broadband, will sell words!
This site is his no matter how much I hack it around now and in the future. And somewhere he is laughing himself sick over my clumsy editing attempts!
I miss him but I can still see him, laughing in the pool, laughing in the light, laughing always.
I still think I am lucky, for all we did and all we found and for being granted a life less ordinary.