Author: Maggie Daniel

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Wow, we slept well. The house is so peaceful. Lou popped round in the morning and then we went to have some brunch at Decks. After that on to Dreams to try and buy a bed for the spare room. We wanted a King Size but hadn’t a clue beyond that. We went to the right place. We were served by the Manager, we were in there for about two hours, were given a drink and his advice was excellent. We ended up with a discounted price, a free 10 year guarantee and a free mattress cover because he said “he liked us”!! It is going to be delivered on Wednesday!

More shops to get a few things for the kitchen and bathroom by which time we had enough and went home. I have to say the weather was unusually warm for the end of September!

In the evening we went to the Theatre Royal in Margate to see Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick.  Both have been in Fairport Convention and we were trying to think just how many years ago it was when we first saw them, too many to think about! We’ve seen them many times over the years. I have never seen such a brilliant fiddle player as Dave Swarbrick, especially playing Byker Hill.

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Ozzy arrived on time with the taxi. He is highly recommended, a good driver, reasonable prices and reliable. What more can you ask for? We flew Turkish Airlines this time to Gatwick. What can I say, we had meals and in flight entertainment all included in the price and very obliging staff . It did make us wonder why we ever fly with Pegasus. You pay for your meals, there is no in flight entertainment and the staff are always quite rude. So many people have said that to me.

We arrived at Gatwick and went to collect our hire. The one I was supposed to have , someone hadn’t returned, so we ended up with a Kia Sportage.

The owners of the caravan park have now left and things have changed so much as a large company have bought them out.  Not for the better sad to say, so we now have a house!!  Lou and Rhys collected the keys before we arrived and managed to get masses out of the caravan for us. In fact they cleaned absolutely everything out of the kitchen even the washing machine, fridge and freezer! They must have worked so hard. As soon as we arrived, they started helping us unpack and move things to where they should be. We have to buy new sofas and a new bed for one of the spare bedrooms. Meanwhile they have lent us one of their sofas.

By about 6pm  we had all had enough and so went back to their house where Tariq had been finishing off a roast for us all.

By the time we went to bed, we were so tired having not slept for about 36 hours. But thanks to Lou, Rhys and Sol,   we had a bed made up and everything in the kitchen!

 

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We were up early , when it was still dark. Finally we decided to start our walk in the dark and took a torch with us! Well, we met even more dog walkers than usual.  Ellie had a good run as soon as the sun started coming up.

We have heard some really lovely bird song the last few days and wondered what it was. We have now discovered it is European Bee eaters. Beautiful birds with a lovely song. I think they are just passing through.

Late afternoon we took Ellie to David and Kenny’s for her holiday! She was very excited. I had an email later on saying she had settled into their routine straight away. She likes being on her holidays with Jekka and Loppi.

We have a ridiculously timed flight to pop back to the UK. 0430am. We thought we would be able to have a bit of a sleep but we didn’t. So, we just packed and waited for the taxi.

 

Thought for the Day – “Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.” ~ John B Sheerin

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Yesterday I phoned Marcello, my hairdresser in the UK to make an appointment for when I am back. I have used him for years and he can cut straight fringes, colour my hair correctly and all sorts of things that they seem to mess up here!  I am pleased to see what he is doing next Monday and Tuesday, days his salon is usually shut, raising money for the Hospice. Well done Marcello. He really is a lovely man with a generous heart. If you are around the Thanet area (West Cliff Road, Ramsgate) and need a hair cut, go in and see him. He is a terrific hairdresser. The photo is of him, I believe this was with the post he received after appearing on Come Dine with Me. The picture in the background is his beautiful wife Yaice.

Gardening and then we had to go and buy some Eukenuba for Ellie. Garfields ran out last week, so we have been holding on as he gives us a discount. He still didn’t have any today, so we had to go to the Professor who charged us full price!

It was very breezy in the evening with bougainvillea blowing everywhere and Ellie chasing it around the pool! Looks as though the pool will need cleaning again.

I had a very short phone conversation with Rhys who still has hardly any voice, so I told him to save it and we will continue “whatsapp”. Poor thing, this is about 4 and a half weeks now with no voice.

Thought for the Day – “Take time to do what makes your soul happy.”

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Down to the beach. It is the first morning in a long while that the sun wasn’t that lovely orange colour. Ellie decided she would see just how dirty and smelly she could get rolling in the seaweed that had been washed into the shore.

We went out to lunch at Green Heights. It is so peaceful there and we had a really nice meal.

 

Thought for the Day – “”The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think”. ~ Maya Angelou

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Home for sale

Into the ravine and through Incesu after the mountains. It was still quite dark when we left home! We saw Jekka and David just coming back from their walk.

Fantastic news from Tulips (Help those with Cancer) concerning Sunday’s “Pasta for a Purpose”.

“A grand total of 10,400TL was raised for Tulips yesterday.

The target was a minimum of 500 meals but ideally Veni Vici wanted to hit 1,000 so with what was cooked and served yesterday plus some generous donations we received today we can say that the equivalent of 1,040 meals were sold!”

Tulips would like to thank…….
Richard and Nadine (owners of Veni Vici) – for coming up with this fabulous idea and making it so successful

Veni Vici staff – all these guys worked for free for charity from 9.30am to …… (I don’t know what time they went home)

Perde Brown & Jeanie Lindsay – for donating their services to help raise more for Tulips

DJ Mike & Pam – for playing some fabulous music (including the Pasta Song) and filling the dance floor

Danny Bishop – for his ‘free’ labour in getting the garden ready for the dancing

Ileli Supermarket – for supplying all the food at cost price

Volunteers – you were all fantastic and all worked so well together – a fantastic team

Everyone who came – all the organising in the world would be useless if you did not support these events

Our sincere thanks go to everyone involved who made this happen!

We went into Korinia Estates because we have decided on them to sell our property. Their website comes in the top 3 in TRNC and also we bought our land from them all those years ago. Today we took copies of our deeds in for them. We hadn’t realised there was a lady in there that was working with Guy all those years ago when we bought the land and she remembered us. We certainly remembered her. We were at the stage during one August of trying to get the paperwork complete whilst buying the land. We ended up camping out in Korinia’s office because nothing was moving and I believe we were only here for 4 weeks. We kept asking and asking why it was taking so long. In the end this lovely lady walked the paperwork from one office to another. It was as simple as that but I am afraid in those days things moved very slowly. We were and still are so very grateful to her. We don’t forget people’s kindness. Guy’s son, Gürkan and his wife are now running it. Thinking back I realise we had the difficult times, everything has become so much easier now and even getting water from Turkey! How things have progressed.

We went shopping and then my favourite occupation…………laying in the pool with this fantastic view.

 

Thought for the Day – “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” ~ Jules Renard

 

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A long walk in the mountains. I am making the most of the beautiful sun rise each morning.  On the way back down we saw Res walking her five dogs.

Gardening and swimming, what a life……great. We are very lucky.

Thought for the Day – “Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned but just how it’s meant to be.”