Karen Phillips

It is chilli drying season here in Kirazli.  Elegantly strung along stone walls and garden gates are garlands of chilli’s turning from stinging green to pale orange to dark crimson in the autumn sun, drying and baking and preparing for winter.  I am badly letting…

Here are some recent pics of the house, taken the other day and probably the last exterior ones I will take until Autumn actually comes and things look a little different.  Here the endless summer goes on and on and things just keep on growing!…

It’s been too hot to crawl around taking pics but I got up early this morning and took a few. I am really pleased with the kitchen, it turned out just how I wanted it – a country kitchen in a Turkish koy.  And that…

It is the dog days of summer here in Kirazli.  As I sit in the Studio with the door open to the sounds of the village a light breeze ripples up from the coast and it smells of hot earth and dust.  The cicadas are…

I should have uploaded these 10 days ago but I was so depressed with the UK weather that I couldn’t face wrestling with the website. I popped home for a quick break to see beloved daughter and check the house was still in one piece…

Ahhh peace! All the workmen are finished.  Fehmi and his crew left for home last night and we finally shut the gates and have the place to ourselves for a few days – until they come to finally fit the stairs. I enjoyed a lovely…

It was all going rather swimmingly until half an hour ago when a gas man tried to rip me off for the cost of connecting the gas hob in the kitchen! It is sometimes rather draining to have to constantly prove you are not a…

Phil finally managed to get through to our web hosting company and got them to alter the settings on the site so we could upload again.  I have a huge backlog of photos which there is now no point in posting, so here are some…