Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

Joan and I had arranged dinner for Brian and Lil and ourselves tonight, knowing that the Robins' family were coming over for Xmas, to their house next door and this was likely to be the last peace and quiet over Xmas. 

All good plans and other sayings spring to mind. The electricity went off twice during the late afternoon, early evening, great when you have a leg of lamb in the oven.

Eventually we got dinner and had just settled down to an evening of quiet drinks and chestnuts over the open fire, when the entire nest of Robins appeared, an hour and a half early and ready to party. So at 2 a.m. we all realised that this was a prelude to a fun Xmas.