Maggie & Mal's Adventures in North Cyprus, the UK and Beyond
All set for a days painting around the outside of the house. It wasn’t until I was up a ladder that Mal decides he doesn’t have a roller! One day he may get organised, although I doubt it. So, down to the yapi market to buy more paint and a roller!
He didn’t get started at all, instead replaced the taps in the shower to the en suite and spent most of the day on the computer!
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More painting and mending. In between I read the write up on the previous evenings England game, oh dear is all I can say having not seen it.
In the evening we went to Café Dűkkan. We had a really nice meal and the place has not changed since we were last there which is some time ago. Their filter coffee in a cafetiere is just as good as always. It is a great place, lovely ambiance even if you just want to have a snack, with reasonable prices.
We went shopping in Ileli yesterday, our preferred supermarket as they are such nice helpful staff and usually carry our shopping to the car as well. It wasn’t until I arrived home and checked the receipt I realised that when the till had gone wrong the cashier inadvertently entered Rosie’s liver in 4 times but only cancelled one. It was obvious from the receipt there was an error as no two packs of liver would be exactly the same weight. So, on the way back from Café Dűkkan, we called in and spoke to the girl on the till. She immediately apologised and refunded the money. Ten out of ten for service once more! For anyone who hasn’t used them, they have an extensive selection of Asian and Oriental ingredients, so I just had to buy some more Thai red curry paste, 1kg fro 19tl. A point to note, they are open until 03.00, very handy if you arrive on a late plane.
Mal and I went to Imap Yapi market to buy the second flush mechanism for the en suite and also some new fixings and a new tap for the shower. Everything here gets really chalked up because of the hard water. His next job. Mal has also been designing a new ‘ontheisland’ website which is soon to be finished
In the afternoon it was so nice we gave up working and went swimming. The water temperature was 25 degrees.
We did the second coat of painting in the bedroom. In the evening, for a change, we sat and watched a couple of programmes we had downloaded. We usually sit outside in the evenings as it is still very warm but the sand flies are a total nuisance.
We spoke to the boys in the evening and Sol has been elected on to the school council. He told me it was because his name is short and the only one people remember…..I told him not to be so modest, bless him!
We walked Rosie and then started mixing paint. It looked very pale in the pot, so added a bit more dye and when it was on the wall, I have to admit it looked a little darker than I intended but at least the wall will look clean! In between painting we noticed that Mal’s “interview” with Lincguide had been published. I have to say some of it was a little ‘tongue in cheek’ which is Mal’s usual style! I doubt many will realise that though.
In the evening I went to girlie Pizza night.
Now it is a little cooler Mal and I have started on our long list of jobs to do. We have had paint mixed before which never seems to come out the colour that has been promised. We found an easy solution, add our own dye. We found such dyes in Marshall’s and I started mixing the paint to the colour I wanted. Foolishly, I trusted the colours on the card that came with the syringe. I had not realised that the colours had faded in the shop, obviously by the sun, so as I started mixing, the hint of beige I wanted was turning pink! I hate pink walls and so the whole can has been dumped. Mal is not the tidiest of people at the best of times but without even touching a paint brush or roller, he managed to splash pink paint everywhere. Don’t ask me how. Back down to our local yapi for another can of white paint and a proper dye! By this time, having prepared the bedroom, I just couldn’t be bothered to start again!
Instead I gave Rosie a good brushing as she has a habit of scrambling about in the undergrowth when we are out walking. I then gave her a shower and she looked much improved, which the shower and the en suite didn’t after she had run around everywhere soaking wet.
I had a long email from Glenda and Garry, our friends in Tennessee and the past few years have not been good to Glenda health wise. We really hope Glenda that things are now improving and you are on the road to recovery.