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Too Busy to Write – so here are some pics

I am so busy at the moment!  I have popped back to the UK for my daughter’s 18th Birthday and to pick up a couple of showers and I only have 12 days to get myself organised to go back to Turkey. So here are…
  • Too Busy to Write – so here are some pics

Scenes from village life

Every week the Sweet Seller comes through the village, walking the back lanes, selling his wares.  He stops in the small squares, sets up his wooden butlers tray and calls to the housewives.  He sells sticky, dense, sponge cake soaked in sweet liquor.  We buy…
  • Scenes from village life

This Week in Kirazli – 20th March 2007

I have loads to write this week but I have complete brain freeze at the moment!  I am trying to write an article on Zen and the Art of Building in Turkey but I keep getting distracted by actually building in Turkey and the truly…
  • This Week in Kirazli – 20th March 2007

This Week in Kirazli – March 4th 2007

Well I am back in sunny Turkey and boy has it been hot these last few days, I actually got sunburnt on Monday, which is very unusual for me. The project is coming on in leaps and bounds and within a few days we should…
  • This Week in Kirazli – March 4th 2007

Private Healthcare in Turkey

It is worth writing a bit about healthcare.  I recently had to have some emergency dentistry – which then turned into major cosmetic dentistry.  In the UK I have a private dentist and I have had most routine dental procedures going.  I have had root…
  • Private Healthcare in Turkey

This Week in the UK and Kirazli – February 26th 2007

It’s been a sad week.  I had to put our aged chocolate Labrador, Cocoa, to sleep.  He was very old and his back was going and he was struggling to walk and was really miserable, so I made the tough decision and took him in…
  • This Week in the UK and Kirazli – February 26th 2007

This Week in the UK and Kirazli – Feb 20th 2007

The other day Sezai was squatting outside the project carefully straightening bent nails with a hammer.  “I will sell these.” he told Phil. “Those were my nails, if you sell them I want 20% commission.” said Phil, attempting to be Turkish. “We split it 50/50…
  • This Week in the UK and Kirazli – Feb 20th 2007

Back in the Good Ole UK

I have had to pop home to fix the central heating (don’t ask!), hug my daughter (lots) and see the accountant (boo, hiss), so I have forsaken the gentle blue skies of the Aegean and the funny, engrossing, absorbing life of the village for the…
  • Back in the Good Ole UK

Lost in Translation

The other day we needed to buy expanding foam (you know the stuff, comes in a spray can, squirt it out and it expands and then goes hard, fills in gaps, whatever). Went to builders merchant and did impressive mime for “expanding foam”.  Failure.  Blank…
  • Lost in Translation

Hidden Things

We are drawn to design things that surprise, which are hidden away, waiting to be discovered.  In the UK our house is hidden away behind trees, on the side of a valley, off a narrow country road.  It is only when you pull in through…
  • Hidden Things

This Week in Kirazli – January 2007

Last Thursday the Iman put out the call for the people to gather to pray for rain.  It was treated as a festival, the village women pulled carpets and rugs out onto the streets and gathered in chattering, excited groups, a special dessert of honey…
  • This Week in Kirazli – January 2007

The Faith Garden

When we went to visit our accountant yesterday evening he showed us some impressive plans for a Faith Garden to be constructed about 5km away from our village at Cinar.  This multi-denominational celebration of diversity in religion will feature a mosque, a church and synagogue…
  • The Faith Garden

All Mod Cons

It is all go on the project again after our New Year break.  Four stonemasons are currently flying around the main exterior walls and our piles of stone are rapidly going down.  The key stones for the corners have been delivered from the quarry in…
  • All Mod Cons

This Week in Kirazli – December 2006

The weather holds fine and clear with day after day of warm sunshine.  It is unseasonably warm this winter, normally we could expect rainy days and the occasional storm but the cold fronts swing north of the Aegean region and the whole of Europe is…
  • This Week in Kirazli – December 2006

Autumn Days

Autumn in Turkey is like living in a Mr Kipling advert!  You remember the ones, when Bramley apple pies were the epitome of a season of mellow fruitfulness.  Turkey in autumn is like that, it’s like the long distant, probably rose coloured, memories I have…
  • Autumn Days
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