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Google Earth

I like Google Earth, I particularly like Google Street view, which of course we don’t get here. You can wile away many a wasteful hour sneering at the paint job the new owners have done on a house you used to own or, in Nick’s…
  • Google Earth

Citrus Season

We are up to our eyeballs in lemons! It is that time of year when lemons are everywhere and you can’t give them away and funnily enough despite being a store cupboard staple in the form of juice there aren’t really many recipes that call…
  • Citrus Season

This is March

We had a sudden cold spell that had us relighting the soba and marvelling at the few frozen pellets of snow that swirled around the village, then came the welcome warmth that had the young goats frisking in the streets and the old ladies in…
  • This is March

In which Mr Evils suffers a decline

A couple of weeks ago Evil’s wandered into the house announcing his royal arrival by yelling his head off as usual, suddenly he stopped, went cross eyed trying to look at his own nose, yowled mournfully, coughed a couple of times and then threw up…
  • In which Mr Evils suffers a decline

My Silicon Family

I woke up this morning to find I had been emailed a picture of a cake. It was a very nice cake with lots of cream and strawberries on top. It was entitled “Grandma’s cake” and was sent from a blackberry – not a strawberry…
  • My Silicon Family

Hurriyet Daily News – Blogging in Turkey

Along with my fellow bloggers, Jack of Perking the Pansies, Julia and Barry of Turkey’s for Life and Bill of Arseaboutfez I recently contributed to an article about blogging in Turkey. It seems we all love it, we’re all addicted to it, we all work…
  • Hurriyet Daily News – Blogging in Turkey

Character Building – Feeling Tuscan

I was reading one of my favourite blogs last night (Moving On – Chronicles of a family moving from England to Spain) about a lady who is house hunting in Spain and is now trying to decide between an old property and a new build.…
  • Character Building – Feeling Tuscan

The stories behind the things we love

It is unfashionable to care about possessions, but the little treasures in our lives enrich them and they develop stories as they move through our lives with us. So the things we have acquired shouldn’t be sneered at or abandoned, they should be celebrated and…
  • The stories behind the things we love

The Wedding of the Year

To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge weddings take absolutely yonks to arrange. Mine didn’t, it involved buggering off to the Gulf of Mexico and giggling across a very wide beach and getting marvellously married whilst park rangers drove past in jeeps giving us…
  • The Wedding of the Year

A very long, drawn out, tortuous and stressful saga

Negotiations are stressful things to enter into, particularly when they are life changing. The back and forth of lengthy communication, especially by third parties can be frustrating and exhausting to the people at the centre who just want to get on with their lives. So…
  • A very long, drawn out, tortuous and stressful saga

Oh woe is me!

It’s been a yucky couple of weeks. I am ill! I have strep throat and I am a lousy patient and I am taking to my bed at the slightest opportunity to suffer not very silently under the quilt. It is years since I was…
  • Oh woe is me!

Pamucak at Sunset

It doesn’t feel like February. My British DNA, tuned to generations of a temperate climate, insists that it is late spring and points at the bright sunshine in the courtyard, clear blue skies and sharp etched shadows as proof that it is not the depths…
  • Pamucak at Sunset

A Turkish Year

It is now five and half years since we came to the valley and my image library grows increasingly huge with each passing month – thank God for huge back up drives! You learn a lot by living here for five years, you learn what…
  • A Turkish Year

The Humble Soba

Whilst my friends in Minnesota send me photographs of three foot of snow on their deck furniture and their dogs wading through sculpted snow drifts here in Kirazli we moan like hell if it gets below 10 degrees and the occasional morning frosts are things…
  • The Humble Soba

This week in Kirazli – 8th Feb 2011

It is winter holiday time in Kirazli. The children are off school and the farmers are off work, enjoying the gap that comes between the olive harvest and the blossoming of the almonds. Spring is on its way and this is a time to put…
  • This week in Kirazli – 8th Feb 2011
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