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• What A Load Of Old Rubbish!
  on Sep 21, 2012 in 'Burası Türkiye!' 'This is Turkey!' Ayvalik Cop Madam recycling recycling project women's cooperative
  There are moments when life presents us with revelations about ‘things’ so profound; so sublime that we think we must be the reincarnation of St John the Divine, or, at the very least bathing in his reflected glory! Such was the case toda...
• ‘aving A Lovely Time – Wish You Was ‘ere!
  on Sep 18, 2012 in Wanderings Adatepe altar Assos cloudburst rain travel travel blog Turkey Zeus
  Having had one of my rising young up-shoots cut down in its prime, closely followed by a kindly meant but spirit-sapping reminder of which end of life’s yardstick I now teeter on, I was feeling a trifle mopey. Encouraging comments on my last po...
• Sticks and Bones May Break My Cones
  on Sep 16, 2012 in Stuff depression mortality pruning trees
  Been a bit desultory with the blog posts of late, preferring to doss around on my back reading, sleeping, moping and, just occasionally, contemplating my navel! (you’d be amazed how much fluff gets into those things – then again, you migh...
• A Night At The Opera
  on Sep 6, 2012 in Stuff Aspendos Aspendos Opera Festival Beijing State Opera Shen Na soprano Turkey travel blog
  Turkey, our adopted country, is a blessed place for opera and ballet lovers with six (Yes, six!) State Opera and Ballet Companies with their associated Orchestras – Ankara; Istanbul; Izmir; Antalya; Mersin and Samsun – all of them are world c...
• Server Upgrade
  on Jul 9, 2012 in Stuff
  BlueHost.com is upgrading its servers for my blog site – there are problems – sorry! Hope normal service will be resumed asap.
• Akdamar – A Name Carved Into History
  on Jul 9, 2012 in Wanderings Akdamar Akhtamar Armenia Church of the Holy Cross Lake Van travel blog Turkey
  Join me as we slip back to a time before (I had) a digital camera – it is Spring; the year is 2003 and we are aboard a small boat heading for the island of Akhtamar, or Akdamar that lies 3 kms out into Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. First, a littl...
• Stuff You!
  on Jul 6, 2012 in Stuff Banco Sabadell Beethoven Beethoven's Ode To Joy flash mob Ode To Joy
  There is a certain selfish beauty to having your own blog – you can post stuff and say “Hey! This interests me’, or ‘This moves me!’ and unless you are in the business of pandering to punters and making money from what y...
• Suffer The Little Children . . .
  on Jul 3, 2012 in Stuff 1942 Afghanistan genocidal war Iraq Libya Lidice memorial Pakistan
  Archers; taking a few moments to remember Lidice, this day, 2nd July 1942 – and Iraq; and Afghanistan; and Libya; and Pakistan; and . . .   SOURCE On 2 July 1942, most of the children of Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia...
• A Stitch In Time . .
  on Jul 1, 2012 in 'Burası Türkiye!' 'This is Turkey!' Çat embroidery exhibition Erzurum silver threads and golden needles
  . . an appropriate title for a trip back in time to 2004. J and I were on one of our periodic wanderings around the east of the country; Erzurum in general and the ‘almost’ town of Çat in particular. ‘Almost’, because the place is only about...
• Three Cups of Tea . . and Sympathy
  on Jun 25, 2012 in Stuff Afghanistan Central Asia Institute education of girls Greg Mortenson murder of teachers Pakistan
  From the time we first read Greg Mortenson’s book ‘Three Cups of Tea’ and the follow up ‘Stones Into Schools’, which describes his mission to promote peace through education, particularly of girls – one school at a...

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