The water man arrived in the morning and the boys loved the cold water going into the pool. He pointed out a decapitated snake on our gravel near the drive. Lena has a legendary cat called Bubbles, legendary because she kills snakes. The two previous mornings she was in our garden when Rosie and I went for a walk. She always makes me slightly nervous when she is around our garden as it always means she is finding snakes. Well, I don’t know how she does it as she is only a small cat but the evidence was there and we think it was a blunt nosed viper, good for Bubbles, bless her.

In the afternoon we took the boys down to the beach and then stopped at The Roof for pizza on the way back home.

Needless to say Alsancak Beledeysi still have not been to sort out our non water situation.