Monthly Archives: March 2005

This evening, Susan cooked dinner for Joan and I, a nice big English style beef stew with dumplings and apple crumble with custard. Lovely grub and now that Joan is beginning to wind down from it all, she fell asleep in one of their big armchairs around 9 o’clock. Bless her.

IT’S PARTY DAY. My friend Les has this theory about jam side up and jam side down. He always says we come out jam side up and toady he was right, we woke up to blue sky and bright sunshine, what a stroke of luck, we had all been quite worried during the week. Because … Continue reading »

Front page news in the Cyprus Today was the funeral of Anne and Reece Mahoney, the English couple murdered in Lapta almost two weeks ago. About 300 residents attended the funeral to wish them farewell and I would suggest all of them still stunned by the event. The 17 year old who confessed to the … Continue reading »

It has been a busy week, culminating in an evening out at The St Tropez restaurant this evening. Although Joan and I did manage to get out one afternoon for a walk around the upper parts of Lapta. The weather was improving over the weekend and boy are we glad we took that walk Monday, … Continue reading »

On a real light note, I received the attached today from Roger:-To, Family and Friends, We haven’t said anything to anybody about this until now because we wanted to wait until things were final.   We have just purchased a one bedroom luxury apartment in the Karpaz. It was finalised this week, so I thought that … Continue reading »

I spent the morning trying to get all the mud and muck off the two cars. There is so much building work going on everywhere that you end up driving through mud on almost every road. Unfortunately whilst checking things like tyre pressures, I discovered a valve problem on my offside front so had to … Continue reading »

After a day of sorting out the garden, the final touches to the patio table etc. Joan and I went out for a fun evening with the Lardy’s. That is Derek, Sandra, Lorraine and Annemarie Vigus who own and run Lardy Dars Tearooms. We all went to the Dunya restaurant which on the way into … Continue reading »

This evening, Joan and I were invited out to the new Capitano restaurant. The invite was from Richard and Paul as it is Joan’s birthday next week and we have a full week ahead, so they thought to get in early. The Capitano, as the name might suggest, is a seafood speciality restaurant and we … Continue reading »

Michael and Barbara had been on a trip to Egypt organised by the BRS and came home late last night, much to the delight of their cats, who had to put up with our company for the last 9 days. Obviously they had much to tell us, so we all four went down to Jeannette’s … Continue reading »

This evening was to be the first game for Dean’s ladies darts team at the cabin. The sad news was that there had been a falling out between Dean and Edna and their Turkish Cypriot partner. The result is that Dean and Edna are no longer in the cabin. Very sad for the Lapta Layabouts, … Continue reading »