Monthly Archives: July 2009

We picked Tiggy up this morning, after her weekend at the vets, for the second dose of chemo. She couldn’t wait to get into her travel basket and come home, don’t think she likes that B & B too much. As soon as we got her home she was yelling for food and is now … Continue reading »

4 a.m. pick-up and I nearly overslept. Well actually I made a mistake setting my alarm last night, switched it off and got out of bed straight away, then heard the guy up the mountain singing his bit from the Koran and he does that at 4 a.m. Oops, I just made it for 4.20 … Continue reading »

Joan and I have had a couple of bottles of a 1995 Chateau bottled Medoc sitting in our wine rack since we came over here, so last night we finally decided to share these with Pat and Bryan, before they go off to UK for four weeks. They say it is not too escape the … Continue reading »

There is still lots of speculation around the will they, wont they, scenario, as to whether the two sides can reach any sort of agreement about the island reuniting. Personal opinion and it is only a personal opinion, no they wont, they are much too far apart. There have been some recent press articles which … Continue reading »

Well last night we attended the reception at The Malpas Hotel. Those of us who received The invite considered it to be a real honour as a non-Cypriot to attend this function. Drinks, mostly non-alcoholic of course, were served by waiters and the food was laid out at four different buffet tables around the pool … Continue reading »

For all rugby fans, I have been sent the attached which talks about the new club house and the seasons fixtures. Something for the diaries. A warm welcome from the Pumas Rugby Club in North Cyprus. Our new website is now live and will be regularly updated with all the latest happenings from North Cyprus. … Continue reading »

I got the medication down to Ferdez early yesterday morning, but when we rang she told us that she had some problems getting a vein to administer the drug. Today we had some very much better news. Tiggy had actually had some breakfast all by herself this morning and then Ferdez had managed to get … Continue reading »

Up early and off to Ercan airport with my cool bag inside a small holdall. Ferdez had given me a map of the Taxim area of Istanbul where I was to go to collect the medication. Excellent directions and no problem getting there but had a slight language problem when I got there. Good old … Continue reading »

Today’s news is that the medication for Tiggy will be available for me in Istanbul tomorrow morning. I had been in touch with Ankara Travel to reserve flights with CTA, tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. and returning at 2 p.m. from Istanbul. I have to take a cool bag over with ice blocks to keep … Continue reading »

One of our local friends, Serkan has been appointed to head up the administration of the local parliament. This new government is making great efforts to be more attuned to the needs of it’s expat supporters as well as making an effort to make the rest of the world sit up and recognise that there … Continue reading »