Monthly Archives: April 2005

Today I had to go in to Nicosia to deal with few bits and pieces around the kitchen white goods business, so Joan and Barbara went round to see Sarah at the Tai Restaurant here in Lapta. Twelve days ago Sarah had a little girl, Sophie, so Joan had been in to Next, when we … Continue reading »

Today we took Dave and Liz over to the south, just to show them where things are and to do some shopping for meat etc before their first visitors arrive next week. when we got back to Dave and Liz’s, I was shown their recent addition, by the builder, to this house, a BBQ on … Continue reading »

This evening is the first leg of the champions league semi-final, Chelsea v L’pool, an absolute must for me and well worth watching, but first I had to go to the meeting of the group "Embargoed" in the Jasmine Court hotel. This volunteer group, comprised of Turkish Cypriot professionals, has been set up to counter … Continue reading »

As this week is half term holiday time for Joan we had a day out in the sun. First we went to drop a couple of unwanted things off at the auction house in Ozankoy and then on to Esentepe to have coffee with Tijan, the cr

People keep asking us about the weather here at the moment, well it is around 22/24 degrees most days now and Joan and I are eating breakfast outside most mornings at around 7.30 a.m. usually visited by some of ourgood neighbours.Being among the last of the big spenders around here, we invited Richard and Paul … Continue reading »

Quick note about the pressure group mentioned on April 10th, the web address is www.embargoed.org instead of .com. Grateful to Richard Goodchild who found this out and sent me an e-mail

Two things of interest today. Firstly, for those of you who ask what is the cost of living like out here. I went up to the council offices to pay my immovable properties tax, that’s annual rates to you lot. Now you are allowed to pay this in two separate payments if you so wish, … Continue reading »

As Joan was running out of such things as Greek style super stained yoghurt we decided on an after school nip across the border, together with Michael and Barbara. We also called in to see what is happening on the generator front, but they have not yet arrived in the shop and Ibrahim promised to … Continue reading »

As its now mid week and so far all I have done is organised a couple of kitchen white goods installations and taken one potential customer over to Nicosia, it’s time to start cleaning up the club sailing boat, ready for it’s launching next month, before Chris starts calling me and asking how I’m getting … Continue reading »

Gardening and more gardening, that’s all she has had me doing this weekend. We made the mistake of letting our lantana hedge grow without too much control or cutting back and now it is a huge job of cutting it back to a sensible height and thickness and hoping that it will recover as the … Continue reading »