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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
There is another report about road deaths here in TRNC having gone up by 44% over the same period last year. Obviously speed is the big killer and the authorities are pinning their hopes on the new cameras which are currently going up all over the place, the increase in fines and licence points awarded for offences and maybe the thought that these things will release more police to monitor other offences. The chairman of the Association for the Prevention of Traffic Accidents said that more education was needed before granting a licence to new drivers. This point was brought home to us this week when Joan was talking with a young lady who works in one of her suppliers. She passed her test last Thursday and was very proud to say that she was only in the car with the examiner for about 5 minutes and she is not aware of any highway code book! Oh boy! There was a whole page dedicated to telecommunications in this weeks Cyprus Today. The first article was about builders damaging phone cables which suggested that the telephone company was spending too much time repairing this damage. Does anybody remember the saga of our phone lines at the top of our road, being destroyed by builders lorries and the huge great fight we had to get them repaired. The second article suggested that ADSL, high speed internet lines, will be introduced by the end of this year in many areas, including Lapta. This will apparently allow those of us lucky enough to have a telephone line to use it for the normal telephone as well as high speed internet at the same time. This comes at just the moment when I finally succumbed to the slow speed internet connection that I get using our only phone line; and signed a contract with Extend Ltd, a company that has now had around two years experience in wireless and satelite communication here in TRNC. It is going to be about 6 weeks before they connect us up, as they are waiting for a new shipment of equipment to arrive, but rest assured I will let you know how succesful. |
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Do you remember me muttering and complaining about having to massively cut back our lantarna hedging, because I had let it grow too vigorously and that it looked really woody and sparse after I had done that. Well surprise, surprise, this is the big growing season out here, so I spent five hours this morning trimming lots of new growth again. Around 2 p.m. I gave up as it was getting just too hot for comfort and I had done all across the back of the garden and some large stretch of the side hedge. That left only one thing to do, get out the big sun umbrella, a comfy lounger, have a swim and then settle down for an afternnon snooze. Something the cat seemed to think was a brilliant idea as she joined me for the rest of the afternoon. |