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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
A warning about generators in the papers today. Apparently a young newlywed couple had their generator in the garage and the carbon monoxide fumes leaked in to the house and killed both of them. They really should be out in the open, but many think they are better protected by being in an enclosed garage or shed.
Your friend and ours, Mr Tony Blair, suddenly turned up in Ankara this week and apparently the dicussions with the Prime Minister of Turkey, centred around the ending of the isolation of Turkish Cypriots. It is suggested that moves will start when Germany takes over the EU presidency next month. Probably means that the Greek Cyps will be polishing up their veto again.
More than 2,500 drivers had their licences revoked during the first 10 months of 2006 and more than half of those where for drink drivin
g offences.
Kyrenia Animal Rescue held their annual Xmas bazaar last week. As usual for these sort of things they had a raffle and one of the, as yet, unclaimed prizes was a bag of jelly babies. It has now been reported that an English man in his 60's stole these out of the back of the car when they where loading up after the event. What a miserable sod, pity the BRS can't deport him.
A Beryl Budd writes about a Cyprus Airways pilot who did not just give his passengers a little info about the weather on landing etc but went on a great length about his political views on the illegal North. Not really the appropriate place or the time for such a thing but just shows the strength of feeling among some Greek Cypriots. One suggestion M/S Budd if you don't like it, fly in to Ercan.
As I said earlier this week it is almost Xmas time and some, like Joan and I, are heading off to UK for a change. So the layabouts decided that they needed a Saturday evening dinner before the holiday period, so off we all went down to The Saffron and the Serious stuff. meant a detailled study of the menu, but most of us probably knew what we were going to have before we arrived, we all have our little favourites there. Having made our studious selection we got down to Doing what we do best enjoying good food in good company. I know we go out far too often you say, but this time the excuse is, it's approaching Xmas. Add to that the fact that tomorrow is Barbara Smith's 70th birthday and we have another excuse.
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