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The Well Behaved Pets of Turkey

I have loved all of my animals but some have been a bit of a trial – Oscar the Great Dane ate a sofa, a whole one.  Jazz the golden retriever was so thick he regularly ran straight into road signs and was often to…
  • The Well Behaved Pets of Turkey

Facebook Friends

I don’t play farmyard games or baking games or any sort of games actually but I normally update my Facebook status every day with snippets from the village and life here and along with the odd (very odd!) whinge and rant so if you want…
  • Facebook Friends

This week in Kirazli – 3rd June 2010

Sometimes in Turkey it isn’t how well you do something that matters, it’s the fact that you do it at all.  Showing willing means a lot here; which explains why several of my neighbours were out in the dark slapping paint on their walls the…
  • This week in Kirazli – 3rd June 2010

Weird Advice for Living in Turkey – Tip No 1

Never let a workman on your roof. All workmen in Turkey have a fearless head for heights and a heavy boot for wrecking your roof.  Any workman who insists he needs to get on your roof to fix a satellite dish/move a satellite dish/inspect your…
  • Weird Advice for Living in Turkey – Tip No 1

This week in Kirazli – 28th May 2010

I think Samos hates me, or Turkey loves me, but either way getting from Kusadasi to Greece has been fraught with natural mayhem these last few trips, with unseasonal storms, persistent gales and hump backed seas making the short crossing uncomfortable and unnecessarily dramatic.     …
  • This week in Kirazli – 28th May 2010

Storm Skies and Red Rain

It is seriously hot, stupidly hot for the second week of May, very, very unseasonably, humidly, hot.  Like 37 degrees hot.  Under low, oppressive skies of dirty grey clouds tinged with yellow.  If this was Kansas I’d be ducking flying houses and making sure I…
  • Storm Skies and Red Rain

I’m sure I never used to think these thoughts!

Yesterday I wrote the following on my Facebook – “bit worried that I may have lived here too long – when I opened the bedroom curtains this morning, looked down into the neighbours yard and thought “Blimey that’s a fine specimen of a cock!” as…
  • I’m sure I never used to think these thoughts!

This Week in Kirazli – May 12th 2010

Between compulsive election watching via the iPlayer and jet washing the courtyard when two minutes of midnight rain turned out to be mainly Saharan sand it has been a perfect week in Kirazli.      With such big temperature variances here we can go from jeans…
  • This Week in Kirazli – May 12th 2010

Shadow versus The Border

Shadow is a sweet natured and normally well behaved dog.  Apart from the usual Labrador trait of “if I can’t see you I can’t hear you” where she sometimes allows herself to ignore instructions by turning her head away.      She does however have a…
  • Shadow versus The Border

Two Years Later

The last two years have been very timey wimey.  Sometimes it feels like forever and sometimes only days have passed since I last wrote in this diary, which either means I am still bonkers or it has indeed been a weird couple of years. When…
  • Two Years Later

God it’s Lovely Here!

Time runs away from you here.  We have been back in Kirazli for three weeks and amongst the whirl of dinners and potential business meetings and friends calling in it has passed in a flash. The garden and pool have been our main occupation and…
  • God it’s Lovely Here!

Running Your Own Business in Turkey

I went to sleep last night thinking about emigration and spent the night dreaming I was on the set of Neighbours and rapidly developing an Australian accent.  I woke up inflecting sentences up at the end!  Horrible! You see, according to the Office for National…
  • Running Your Own Business in Turkey

A Place in the Sun Magazine

Bouncing up and down here being really excited. The house has been chosen by A Place in the Sun Magazine to be their featured Private Sale of the Month in next months magazine. They only pick really interesting properties so we are delighted that they…
  • A Place in the Sun Magazine

Annual Running Costs

I thought this may be useful for someone.I was just going through my bills and trying to compare my UK house and my Turkish house. It’s a tough thing to do because the houses are quite different but here are the Turkish costs. House is…
  • Annual Running Costs

We must be mad!

We’ve booked flights to go back to the UK in October.  We must be mad and we have told each other that every morning for the last five mornings.  The sun still shines here, day in day out it is a glorious 30 degrees, the…
  • We must be mad!
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