Month: April 2013

Bargains – Wallis 24% off for 24 hours (today)  & Activity Superstore 15% off & Cast Iron Chimenea £49 & Rattan Sun Lounger £101.99 & Large Lightweight Suitcase £34.50 & Best Western Hotel Breaks from £44.10

The largest drop in the price of gold for 30 years – Turkish Cypriot claim to Gold Reserves.

We have been watching yet another of our beautiful mountains in front of us being dug up. I wonder what they are going to build up there. More empty houses or perhaps it is for  the cable car planned to come from the  coast line/zoo/shopping centre or whatever the latest plans are. The land just below this belongs to Hasan Sungur, a deluge of half built empty houses, becoming destroyed by the weather. We remember when we bought our land and we were told the entire mountain that side of us would never be built on because it was government land. Mmmm, someone was telling porkies….sound familiar?!

The men came at 4 in the afternoon to instal our hob. I had to laugh when they took the old one off, it had been stuck down to the granite with Blu tac! Perhaps they didn’t have the correct materials 10 years ago. Ha ha. They fitted it and left all the bits of wire, rubbish and the old hob and the box and polystyrene all over the kitchen floor….bang went their tip.

Thought for the day – “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Bargains – Boots No.7 Lift and Luminate regime bundle £30 & Debenhams 10% off and Free delivery code  & Rattan 4 seater garden furniture set £254.99 & North Cyprus Holiday 2wks HB +free 3rd week £369

It was an overcast day and so in the morning we went into Girne. Now that we have our new oven and our hob is 10 years old, we decided to have a look at a hob to match. We went into several shops and the majority had no problem reducing the price for us. The one we chose in the end was in the Beko shop and she reduced it by 150tl. If you are buying anything fairly large always ask for a discount. One shop wouldn’t give us one, so we just moved to the next one. As well as the 150tl off, they are coming to fit it tomorrow.   Good service, well that is if they come tomorrow but I feel sure they will.

So, the weather forecast was wrong and it didn’t rain, so in the afternoon we went for a walk, with Mal continually saying “I could have carried on painting!” But then we wouldn’t have seen this lovely butterfly.

The storm and rain started in the evening and what a cracker it was too. I love sitting under the terrace watching the lightning going around the mountains and out at sea.

 

Thought for the Day – “The earth has music for those who listen.” ~ George Santayana

Bargains – Premier Inn 100,000 Bank Holiday rooms £29 & Boots £10 off Fragrance & Simply Be Free Delivery code & Monsoon money off childrens wear

It seems as though the Russians may be coming to the north! I can’t see them putting up with the scandalous builders that the Brits have. I don’t know about them coming, three have already arrived here, one opposite, one below the end of our garden and another next door to David and Kenny.

More painting the outside of the house, the weather forecast is still saying “chance of rain” tomorrow.

 

Thought for the Day – “How many people never see how beautiful the sky is at night because they simply don’t take the time to look up?” ~ Suzanne E Anderson

Bargains – Simply Be free delivery & “Stomp” top price tickets £28 & Dunelm 30% off bedding & Q hotels 30% off & Debenhams Flowers £5 off

I went to Ileli, mainly to get Cyprus Today and just a few other fresh things before we continued the decorating. The weather forecast suggests a chance of rain on Monday, so we will have to get a move on as it is the outside we are doing! All fun in the sun!!

Thought for the Day – “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love” ~ Marcus Aurelius

Bargains – “Phantom of the Opera” £35 seats & Accessorize £10 off shoes &  4 night full board seaside breaks £109 & Rosemary Conley Steam and Store £19

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Happy 3rd Birthday to our grand daughter Violet.

Tris put Violet on the web cam, so that she could open our presents we gave her with us watching. She opened them, thanked us and then said goodbye, I guess she wanted to play with them!

The sun was out, so time to start the mammoth job of preparing to paint the outside of the house. Oh what fun!! By the time we had finished for the day we hadn’t thought about dinner and so we went to Hillside for fish, chips, mushy peas and an Efes for 20tl!

Thought for the Day – “Didn’t we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I’m older than my parents were when I thought they were old.” ~ Lois Wyse

Bargains – Cordless Hedge Trimmer £22.50 & P&O Mini Cruise to Amsterdam £121 & Kobo Mini Ereader £49.99 & Osprey Strasbourg Leather Bag £32.50 & Brantano Footwear 25% off Ladies and Mens shoes

It always amuses me when people ask us what we do all day. With half an acre of garden and a house, I don”t know but we seem to be busy. Anyone I speak to here says the same, why with these houses is there always something needs doing? We do try and go for a walk every day and the rest of the day just fills up. Then of course there is Bargain Hunters and NCFP and my blog to keep going!

Speaking of NCFP, looks as though someone has been upset as it is under attack.  You will find it here while our genius sorts it for us. I wonder if it is something to do with a certain “AG”. Mal and co are one step ahead!!!

Karen is doing a mini trip around the UK visiting her friends with the twins. I like this picture! I’d know a Premier Inn anywhere!

 

Thought for the Day – “Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow.” ~ Tina A Morgan

Bargains – Mantaray Leather Handbag £37.50 & BHS 24% off for 24 Hours &  Dorothy Perkins 25% off EVERYTHING & Wallis 20% off everything & Simply Be 30% off Tops and Knitwear

Cyprus Today non news paper. The dog show will be held at Sunset Beach on Sunday 14th April 2-5pm

All sorts of problems are continuing in the south.

Another day outside sorting gardens as the weather was so warm.

Just one cloud in the sky which looked very odd rising from behind the mountain.

I heard from Torin. I thought his globe trotting days for work were over but he is on his way to Holland!

Thought for the Day – “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” ~ Mark Twain