Month: April 2013

Bargains – Thornton’s chocs Clearance bundles & Phase Eight sale & Wallis Sale & Return Coach to Dublin £29 & 6 Tomato Plants £8.98

Rain overnight, so the forecast was correct.  Mal will have to wait a few more days to start the outside painting. Instead we both went into the gardens for more weeding. More rain = More weeds! Still, it’s nice being outside and it’s keeping us sort of fit!

It was so lovely in the afternoon that we went for a long walk. The long walk is OK, the worst bit is walking back up our steep drive!

Tariq came on the web cam early evening. He has found himself a paper round, setting an example to his two older brothers!!

Thought for the Day – “If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” ~ Raymond I Myers

Bargains – Eucalyptus Deck Chair £25 & Magnolia Tree £7.49 & 1 way coach travel to Paris £9 & Debenhams Set of 12 glasses £11.20

Mist everywhere first thing or was it more dust from Libya or some other place? I know cleaning the shutters was the days job and loads of brown muck coming off them. I did think it would be clean air living here! It was also very windy, so everything blowing indoors again.

So, Maggie Thatcher has died. I can’t believe how biased the BBC News is. I wonder who is actually running the BBC? Ha ha. The other news channels are far less biased Al Jazeera is reporting a very balanced view..Having worked in Social Housing a lot of my working life, my opinion is my own. Sell off the housing stock and ring fence the money. That was a joke.The poll tax, the winter of discontent? Quote from Al Jazeera “she was profoundly undemocratic”.  I’ll say no more.

Thought for the Day – “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

Bargains – Tesco Barbecues 20% off &  Wickes 25% off & Debenhams Flowers Spring sale £10 off & Debenhams Towel Bale £14 & Kids Table and Bench set £25

Happy Birthday to Rhys!

We had no electricity when we woke up. Evidently the whole of the country was without power from 2am because of a mechanical failure at the Teknecik Power plant. It came back on at 7.30am

Mal and I went for a walk along the Lapta path. I guess because we were fairly early we only saw one other person down there. A gentle breeze from the sea….lovely.

We came back and Mal baked some delicious olive and cheese bread and I made a date cake. Mal’s dough is rising pretty quickly now the weather has warmed up.

Later we had all the Cardiff family on the web cam. They had lunch out at Viva Brazil restaurant for Rhys’s birthday, a non stop meat place! They were all full. We were watching the hammers game and they didn”t have it on, so we turned the web cam round so they could watch it long distance!

Thought for the Day – “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bargains – No 7 Protect and Perfect Beauty serum x6 bundle & Regatta 20% off and free delivery & Lawnmowers & garden tools  money off codes & Meyer set of 4 professional pans £45 & Laura Ashley 20% off new season dresses

Another mornings walk in the mountains but I think we’ll have to start going earlier as it was really quite hot on the way back. More pine cones collected. We now have a huge wheelie bin full of them. The recent hurricane force winds have left cones strewn everywhere. Lots of BBQ’s!!

Cyprus Today, another 4tl wasted!

We listened to the Grand National on Five Live and just as it got to the exciting bit,they cut the station! But I bet each way on Oscar Time (because of our grandson Oscar), so I made a little money. Unusual for me, I am usually the kiss of death to any horse I back.

Of course in the evening we just had to have a BBQ!

Thought for the Day – “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried to barbecue anything.” ~ Albert Einstein

Bargains – HALF PRICE Sanctuary Soothe to Sleep Collection & Gourmet 20cm steamer set £22.50 &  The Entertainer 25% off & Up to 50% off Hotel bookings & Aluminium Bistro set and cushions £186.75

It was a beautiful morning and so we went for a walk, pine cone collecting and wild flower spotting but being very careful to look for snakes. It was in April that Rosie was bitten by a snake.

Just a mention of Hak, the very good lawyer, he will be back working from 8th April. Our best wishes and prayers go to his wife who is still in hospital in Istanbul. More info

In the evening we went for dinner at Morelli in Karaoğlanoğlu and very good it was too, you can read the review.

Thought for the Day – “ If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” ~ Terri Guillemets

Bargains – Debenhams Blue Cross Sale with Free Delivery & DeVere Venues Hotel Rooms £20 & FREE Ascot Race tickets & Brantano Footwear 20% off everything & Bon Marche FREE worldwide delivery & M&S Outlet 15% off code

We woke up to rain, just as they forecast, well they forecast storms actually but that may be later! That will save me watering the roses which were looking a bit limp. No storms and overnight was all the rain we had although it was fairly windy.

Thought for the Day – “Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.” ~ Stephen Richards

Bargains – Dulux Emulsion Paint Half Price & Canon Ixus Digital Camera less than half price & Avis One way, one day car rental & Garden Wooden Steamer Lounger and cushion £51.99

Our breadmaker blew up last year and so today Mal decided he would make his own bread. Probably better than the bread maker as we frequently had power cuts in the middle of it! So, he left the bread rising while we went shopping. Cyprus Today, the old news, newspaper!  Mmm, what a lovely smell, fresh bread baking!

After such a lovely day yesterday, I don’t know where the sun has gone today, getting ready for tomorrow’s storm forecast? It did appear at lunchtime when we had lunch outside.

Mal went to the fruit trees to do some more weeding and then called me down to look at some weird “plants” in the undergrowth. They are parasitic cytinus (parasitic to the Cistus (rock rose) .

I really love this time of year with all our meals outside. Meanwhile my sister has gone on a caravan holiday with my niece and family. I guess they are shivering! I have asked her to come and stay with us but she doesn’t feel ready for that yet. It’s got to be strange, 43 years married and now she is on her own, bless her.

Thought for the Day – “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” ~ Paulo Coelho