Monthly Archives: October 2004

Vets first with little Smudge. Unfortunately she doesn’t open before midday on a Sunday and who can blame her. So we all took advantage and had the full monty, bacon and egg breakfast, with trimmings. It was a lovely day so we took Arie out east. The new road goes on out past Esentepe so … Continue reading »

After the storm, today was a lovely day, but we were not able to take early advantage of it, due to a little problem with our kitten, Smudge. She had gone out early in the morning and whether she had eaten something, or been bitten by a snake, we don’t know. Suddenly she started shaking … Continue reading »

Today was a national holiday in TRNC, so Joan had a free day. Unfortunately the weather didn’t look too good and in fact during the middle of the morning we got a good downpour. Yippee, no watering for the next week. By now you might guess, that this guy doesn’t rate gardening too highly on … Continue reading »

HAIRY HARRY IS BACK. This morning at around 4 a.m., Arie got up to watch the eclipse of the moon and low and behold, Hairy Harry had returned. Arie said he was sitting on the curtain just watching him. Trying to explain that he is just a pet, didn’t go down too well, so he … Continue reading »

Now I have to start showing Arıe all the tourist sites, but before that he insisted in trying out the pool, declaring that it is just the ideal way to spend a holiday.We took a trip down to Kyrenia town as I needed to go into the shop and Arie needed some money. He and … Continue reading »

Quick rush to Nicosia this morning, with John Jackson and his family. They are having a villa built in Alagadi and needed some kitchen equipment and some air conditioners, so I took them over to see our importers and select the things needed. After that it was a quick rush back home and then a … Continue reading »

An interesting early evening football game today, Man. United versus Arsenal. Neither are really teams that I would normally go to watch, unless of course they where playing Liverpool, but with Arsenal now one game short of fifty games without a loss and Manchester United determined to end that run, it could be an interesting … Continue reading »

Oh yes, I forgot another piece of information for those of you coming to live. On Wednesday morning, Joan and I went to immigration in Nicosia, to renew our annual residency permit. You have to do this every year until your 5th year, when you can apply for permanent residency. The cost is 215 million … Continue reading »

Interesting day today, the government resigned. Prime Minister, Mehmet Ali Talat, had been struggling with a coalition government that had lost it’s majority, so today he resigned, probably in the hope of another early general election. This of course means that the controversial Leasehold Bill is now put on ice until a new administration is … Continue reading »

Joan and Susan started their winter exercise classes this afternoon, kalonetics or something equally energetic. They say that it is not too much hard work, just gentle stretching and toning exercises, guess we will just have to believe them and I suppose that the pool is now beginning to get a little bit cold, so … Continue reading »