Frank and Joan's news for 14 August 2009 in Northern Cyprus

Frank and Joan's Adventures in Northern Cyprus

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

Tiggy news, for those who ask. She has had her fourth session of chemotherapy with four more to go. She just comes home and heads straight for the food bowl as if nothing has happened. Joan and I keep waiting for hair loss, sickness and all those sort of things that happen to a human, but none of it is happening and she is putting weight back on, so news is all good at this time.

Oh yes the goose story. It hung around for three days on the lady's pool and showed no signs of wanting to leave. Two of them eventually persuaded it, with the aid of a couple of brooms, but it only waddled off to another villa were nobody lives permanently, so now we have to wait and see.

Last night the current Layabouts, who are still on the island, went to Silver Rocks, which is on the side of the sea, between Lapta and Karsiyaka. Nice food, nice company and a lo

vely setting with the sea laping over the rocks below.

The midweek Cyprus Today reports the strikers as saying "The government must back down" This is all shades of Maggie and Artur Scargill days. OK to try to protect your income, but not to demand much, much more off an already bankrupt country. Interesting to see if this government have enough strength or will they back down in the cabinet meeting.

You know I said we had been to the opening of North Cove Estate Agency, well some disturbing news has now come out in Cyprus Today. It appears that somebody has vandalised one of the partners cars at his home during the night. They set alight to it outside their house and very close to a gas storage tank and more importantly this was close to the children's bedroom. If the car had ignited the gas tank and this had exploded then the consequences would have been very serious indeed. After this vandals have smashed the new windows in the offices by throwing large bricks through them. Difficult to believe that anybody could be so jealous or vindictive to do this.

Lapta has had serious water supply problems for some weeks now and have been supplying us with free tanker deliveries until this situation is resolved. Hopefully the new well they are drilling will resolve things quickly. Meantime some ex-pats in Lapta have called the paper and demanded that a state of emergency be declared in Lapta and recommended that the government or Turkey take over the supply to resolve the issue. Get real, whoever you are, you will just go down as another complaining Brit. Feel sure that the next time you ask the council for some special service you are going to get real support!