We went off to Girne market. Very strange weather, it bucketed down with rain while we were there but when we arrived home it hadn’t rained at all. We also stopped at Marshalls to buy some more exterior paint and membrane for the garden and we they gave us discount! Lemar are still doing their trays of large eggs for 5.20tl (30 eggs), so we bought another tray, we do seem to use a lot. I even managed to find some creme de cassis for 15tl, which isn’t that much more expensive than we used to pay when we brought it back from France. We bought the creme de cassis in Astro. It had a huge security tag on it. One girl packed our shopping another put it through the cash register. It wasn’t until we arrived home and unpacked the shopping, you guessed it, the security tag was still on it! Well, nothing bleaped at the supermarket exit and we had the receipt for it, if it had. Of course then Mal had to prize the security tag off it.
Of course we did another visit to Mr Pound. As we were paying for our many items at the till, Mal noticed a card behind the counter of 30 assorted batteries, the tiny round ones that you use in small clocks, watches etc. I have a tiny clock with one such battery and I hadn’t been able to find for a few years. For 4tl we took a gamble. I can’t believe it, I put one in the clock and it works. There are 4 sizes on the one card….absolute bargain. As I say 30 batteries in total.
We stopped at Fast Food Cafe for lunch. Their chicken skewer wraps are delicious, Mal had the lamb and said it was equally good. Chicken 8tl and lamb 9tl and we were also offered coffee ‘on the house’. Along with the wraps they bring a plate of pickles and chillies and two other dishes with garlic sauce and chilli sauce. It’s a great place to go and they are so friendly in there.
We didn’t miss the rain completely, the storm started about half past three, just as I was going to do some gardening.
The lira hit 2.61 to the pound.
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Thought for the Day – “It isn’t your mistakes that make you a failure. It’s not learning from them.” – K Wetwiska