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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
This morning at 8 a.m. the tiler turned up to re-tile our upstairs terrace. After last years rebuilding work we discovered that we were getting water coming in through the ceiling of the new kitchen. Just damp patches along the edge of the ceiling, but worrying all the same. So today they cut off the stone balustrades, which are now going to have to be replaced with wrought iron and then completely re-tiled with ceramic tiles over th
e existing. When they had cut off the balustrades the problem came to light, broken tiles and no silicone to waterproof the damage made installing originally, typical of the sort of workmanship here. This work is now happening just in time as the bad weather started this last week with very heavy winds and some rain. In fact we had a text message from our internet supplier, that two of their masts had blown down cutting off the service and that they would not be replaced until it was safe to go up there again.
So because we had been awake so early, Joan and I decided that this was an ideal day to do some winter preparation. We had a mass clean out of the garden shed, put the sunlounger cushions away etc and then packed the swing seat in its winter jacket. Sort of theraputic work really. Apart from that it was far too windy to be out in the garden.
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