Monthly Archives: November 2005

Bit of a busy day chasing kitchen installers around so Joan and I decided to go down to Derek & Sandra’s new joint, L & D’s, on the road to the university. Since they opened last weekend they have started bar food. We had a lovely piece of gammon steak with grilled tomato, fried egg … Continue reading »

Our website man in UK. Nic from Bassett Green, is doing a website for somebody who has had a villa built out at Bogaz, on the road out of Famagusta, on the way to the Karpaz. He asked us to go out and take some photos for this site and as today was one of … Continue reading »

Definitely time to look at the weekly paper, as there is a very important article in there this week. Last week I mentioned the change to Article 159 of the constitution. The bill was approved by ministers and published in The Official Gazette this week. The amendment opens up the way for Greek Cypriots to … Continue reading »

Joan and I were supposed to go out for dinner with our friends Atay and his wife, but at the last minute he had received a call from Istanbul that a long standing friend had died so they went over for the weekend and the funeral. As we had booked Henson’s for 4 people and … Continue reading »

It’s getting round to being the time of the year to sit in with a good movie and a bottle of wine. This because it starts to go colder about 5 p.m. when the sun has completely disappeared behind the mountains, it is still great to sit out early for breakfast and for lunch but … Continue reading »

Does anybody recall that some time ago, Richard turned up with half a lamb for our freezer. Well we all four of us found that it was as tough as old boots, mainly because they don’t hang meat here and in fact this one was still warm when Richard originally brought it. Well Joan and … Continue reading »

Three white goods installations yesterday and then a trip to Nicosia, so today was settle down and answer e-mails time. Lucky old me got a day to myself to do that as Joan went with Susan and Barbara for a "Ladies what lunch" outing, See what happens now she is no longer working. They drove … Continue reading »

Before we went to UK, we had promised George & Susan to bring back black pudding and do a full Sunday brunch. So that’s exactly what we all had around 11 a.m. this morning, the full Monty with sausage, beans, mushrooms, bacon, black pud, egg, hash browns and fried bread, all washed down with some … Continue reading »

Bit better weather toady so Joan and I were able to spend some time in the garden. It is the time of the year to cut things back ready for the new spring growth. This particularly applies to things like bougainvillea as they grow like fury over here and if you don’t cut back can … Continue reading »

We seem now to be heading in to our period of changeable weather. The days are much shorter now and we today woke up to grey skies and some rain, but this cleared up by mid-morning. Having said all of that, Joan and I sat outside to have lunch and it was mid 20s, but … Continue reading »