Author: Maggie Daniel

Mal and I did more around the house, like Mal sealing windows that have never been fitted properly.

I also heard from my niece/god daughter, Julie, who is running 10K towards the end of October for Cancer charity. Just in case anyone would like to donate a couple of quid – CLICK HERE. Well done Julie!!

We had a surprise in the evening, friends of ours, Glenda and Garry, who live in Tennessee who we had lost contact with contacted Mal on Facebook. We haven’t seen them for 8 years. They stayed with us in the UK and we visited London and did the sights with them. We also took them to France, a really good day out until we arrived back at Dover and got stuck in the lift in the car park on the hottest day that summer. We were there for half an hour before the fire brigade arrived. I can tell you not all lifts have a trap door, ours didn’t! Plenty more adventures we shared. We are looking forward to being back in touch with them.

In the morning we ran Jill and Val to the airport as they were off for two weeks holiday in Turkey. On the way back we stopped at a new supermarket. It’s big clean and more choice but prices are around the same as locally.

In the afternoon we watched the Chelsea game.

We had a busy day gardening and also jobs around the house that have been left over summer.

Of course we watched the Man U match, a little disappointing!

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We had to go into Girne, which not being town lovers, we do very rarely! But, I was looking for a 60th birthday present for my friend Gerrit, in Germany. We had been invited to her party but unfortunately we will be in Turkey at that time. I found a really nice bracelet in one of the jewellers and asked for discount. The guy then went into how he could not give discount but would give us 10% off but would never give us discount again on our future visits to his shop. A very strange attitude, so we won’t be using him again!

On the way back we decided to try ‘Back in Time’ for lunch. They have an offer on for the whole of October ‘2 for 1’ for lunch. It is a MUST to visit.  Mal and I just couldn’t believe that for two meals, chicken shish, chips and salad and quiche, chips and salad, 10tl for the two. Having had a lack of Gold Fasel island wide, Mal was pleased that they actually sell it there! I don’t think this  meal offer can be bettered anywhere. The fact that Trish and Mike are such friendly people, I hope more people will go and try them out. The view is over the Mediterranean.  Back in Time can be found by turning down the road on the opposite side of the road to Astro and follow the signs to Kasgar Court hotel, follow down to the sea and turn right.

Having left there we went to get some shopping and stock up with Gold Fasel which is now back in the shops, much to Mal’s relief as he was down to his last two bottles!

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Lena, Willy and Ingrid came over in the morning and brought Ozzie with them (Ingrid’s dog). Rosie was a bit grumpy, obviously thought another dog, less food for her!Val and Jill came for lunch and we helped them book a much reduced cost holiday in Turkey. Hotel, flights, airport transfers are all now booked. I hope they enjoy it!Mal had been busy in between, writing to the UK newspapers about the banners at the previous nights Chelsea match in south Nicosia.

In the evening we went to listen to Hans Doeleman at Chateau Lambousa giving an illustrated talk on the Ottoman Conquest of Cyprus. It was an interesting talk but again we were surprised there were not more people there.

October’s picture is the front cover of the Puma’s 2010 calendar…..please support them and buy a calendar. They are available for purchase at Bar 15 in Alsancak. Monies raised are going to ’Help Those with Cancer Association.’

A second day sorting out the caravan. It was so hot in there.  In the evening we went to Toby Carvery with Shirley and Steve. When we had finished we drove into Broadstairs. The following week was Broadstairs Folk week but we went into the Tartar Frigate where they had folk on and then watched the firework display on the beach. It was such a lovely evening, we could have been in Cyprus! People were having barbecues on the beach. Broadstairs has a connection with Charles Dickens as he visited it regularly and there is a Dickens Museum there.

I used my new camera during the evening and some of the pictures were awful and when we returned to the caravan discovered that it was making an awful grinding noise. Obviously a serious fault. It will have to go back.

We left Marion and Bryan’s and called into Lakeside on the way back. We went to Ikea to see if they still had some wind breaks for us to take back to Cyprus but sadly they had sold out.  We then went to Comet to buy a new Pentax camera as my last camera broke and I had been borrowing Mal’s. The nice salesman explained to us why buying products on the internet was cheaper – apparently it’s because they are foreign imports not meant for UK use. Mal managed to get a £5 reduction and when we unpacked the box on the way back home we discovered the instruction manual was only in Japanese.

I gave Mal back his broken camera and he immediately fixed it!

A quiet night in the caravan.