Monthly Archives: June 2005

Just to round off the week and the month I had to go out and buy a new mobile phone today. A sort of belated birthday present to myself. Why you may ask, its only last summer that he went swimming with a phone in his pocket and had to replace it then. Well this … Continue reading »

My birthday again, don’t they come round more quickly the older you get. Joan said lets have a day out together by going over the border then we can also do some shopping in the hypermarket on the way back. Good idea I thought, we could go down to Governor’s beach which is just off … Continue reading »

Half way to Xmas said George and Susan and as Xmas day is Susan’s birthday we decided to have a half way party. Who needs a blooming excuse anyway to sit outside on a balmy summer evening and have a laugh and a joke over some good food and drink, with friends. Susan prepared a … Continue reading »

Roger-B is performing these days at The Mediterranean Breeze restaurant on Thursday evenings so we decided that we would go with Michael and Barbara to sample their fish and chip supper evening. I know this wasn’t a big event but many of you think our social life is too damned good so we have to … Continue reading »

This is the last week of school before they start the 10 week summer holiday so this evening was the school end of year show, commencing at 6 p.m.Before attending that we had to go to see the specialist in Nicosia with Joan’s latest blood test results etc. It appears that they are getting this … Continue reading »

This evening we met Rene and Pat Doubleday and we all went out to The Serenada Court. They are having a house built in the Lapta area and wanted to pick our brains a little on living in TRNC. Colin and Jean where also at the restaurant having their last evening meal before returning to … Continue reading »

News this week includes something which is designed to have us pulling our hair out for a little longer. The work on the long awaited Kyrenia bypass has been stopped due to some contractual cock up in Turkey. The bidding has to restart and will take three months at least so the new bypass will … Continue reading »

Last evening, David invited Joan and I to join him and his brother and sister-in-law for dinner. As he had never been to Henson’s restaurant before we suggested that as a suitable venue. Guess everybody enjoyed themselves and it was nice to meet more of David’s family. Bob at Henson’s was pleased to see us … Continue reading »

Bit of a busy week during the early part as I had three kitchen installations with the Bosch guys and some air conditioners to go in to the Alagadi site of DH Developments. So Tuesday evening, Joan and I decided to give the rebuilt Allah Kerim restaurant in Alsancak a try. We had a couple … Continue reading »

The winter housing of the boat is now over. This afternoon the gang of 6 with trailer and a vehicle recovery truck tuned up to take it away. First we had tolift and carry the boat out through the arches and load it on the trailer. The trailer was then manhandled around the side of … Continue reading »