Monthly Archives: December 2005

All the best laid plans can sometimes go astray. Roger & Gill had a flood because of a burst pipe in their CH system, we had to change our plans to go down to L.D’s and Barbara & Michael were going to be on their own at home so we all gathered at Roger & … Continue reading »

Well I got my computer back today so now am able to look at last weeks news for you. There will be no Cyprus Today until the new year now, so make the most of this.Remember that last April, when Anne & Reece Mahoney were murdered in their home, well this week a 17 year … Continue reading »

Disaster day. This morning I switched on my desktop to a horrible grinding noise and a message that basically said, I ain’t going nowhere!  For a few days I had listened to what was probably a noisy fan in there and today it decided, I don’t want to make that noise anymore, I’m just giving … Continue reading »

Christmas Day and for Joan and I a deliberate day on our own. For the last few years we had had visitors and Richard had always stayed with us over the holiday period. Well this year Richard obeyed his mum and went to UK for Xmas, on his way actually to the US of A … Continue reading »

Just had to include this photo of our Smudge as she thinks nobody can see her hidden here. Last year when she was so small she was more destructive.This evening Joan and I went to Liz & David’s Xmas Eve party. Twelve of us enjoyed a really great evening with the usual quantities of laughing … Continue reading »

Joan and I went up to see Sarah and Sophie before they went off to UK for Xmas and of course to take Sophie her Xmas present.Sophie is growing fast and crawling well now. Somebody had bought her a little Santa Claus outfit so we just had to havea photo in that

Joan and I went over to the south, known locally as "the dark side" to get some of the things that are for Xmas such as fresh sprouts and a fresh turkey. We bought a 5.5 kilo turkey for the equivalent of

It’s Christmas time again and of course that means school nativity shows. This year, despite the fact that Joan no longer works there we just had to see the performances. The school is now so big, with both a Primary and a Secondary School, that they decided to split the shows over two evenings. This … Continue reading »

Richard and Paul are heading off to the UK and then America for a holiday starting Thursday, also Steve and Hayat are going to Australia to visit friends and family so a get together was deemed essential before that. This evening they all turned up at our place for dinner. The request was for basic … Continue reading »

Interesting reading in the papers this week. Confusion at immigration. Apparently there have been changes to the entry visa regulations which now gives foreigners entering the TRNC only 30 days in the country instead of the previous three months. Now that’s interesting, because many people have just nipped across to Turkey every three months to … Continue reading »