Rosie and I were up and out at 5.00am. We went into the ravine and the stream has now disappeared, just a tiny waterfall trickling but the rest has dried up.
I then went to Ileli to get my shopping and bumped into Bev and Gary, I think we all have the same idea, get everything done before the real heat hits. I bought Cyprus Today and according to them North Cyprus is under a “Basra hot front” coming from Arabia. This article was accompanied by a photo of a restaurant worker frying an egg on the road which took 5 minutes to cook! I think that just about sums up the “news” in today’s issue. Lots of talk but no decisions about either the ‘mortgage’ problem bringing devastation to home owners nor a solution to CTA’s debt problems.
I couldn’t find any cherries in Ileli, so popped into Starling. I also bought a pack of toilet rolls, marked on the shelf at 11.90tl. They went through the till at 17.50. I explained that the price on the shelf was 11.90, did she care, of course not, so I told her to knock them off my bill. I paid for the couple of items I had bought only to get 50 kurus short in my change. Again I queried it. Cyprus shrug and ” no change” and she looked away. I gave her 2 x 25 kurus coins and told her to give me 1tl. She did so but very begrudgingly. I will NOT be using Starling again, even if I have to go without my cherries. Using them is too much like hard work especially on a day with Basra temperatures. How come Ileli don’t short change and always have change in their tills? AND the staff are very helpful and seem to appreciate your custom, which is more than can be said about Starling, I hasten to add …..in my experience.