Monthly Archives: July 2014
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Pad Parent : Good Parent
7Thursday 31 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It is a sad fact how many times you read, here or see cases of just plain old ‘bad parenting’. …
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Fruit : Pomelo
16Thursday 31 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
These large ‘pink grapefruit’ are called Pomelo, or Citrus maxima (or Citrus Grandis) to use their posh name. Ours are now …
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KISS ~ Heaven’s On Fire
11Wednesday 30 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Time for another of my ‘Tunes I Love’, and another from the 80’s. Try this for size; a bit of …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Centrepiece
3Wednesday 30 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Heaven on Earth
10Tuesday 29 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The memory of this tune goes back to the late ’80s, and has stayed a personal favourite of mine ever …
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Fruit : Pears
10Tuesday 29 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
As with the apples mentioned the other day, growing hard fruits like pears is also notoriously poor in this hot …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (IV)
1Monday 28 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a traditional (but modern) Turkish gulet on …
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Macro Monday: “Stamen”
7Monday 28 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . A how I wish I had a tripod… …
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Spike’s Guide to Eid al-Fitr
30Monday 28 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Today is Eid al-Fitr, celebrated across the globe by 1.6 billion Muslims, or 23% of the world’s population. . So …
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Guest post: “Fuzzy and Boomer” – by Linda
24Sunday 27 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In this post, we get a history lesson… from a couple of farming pooches from the USA, called Fuzzy & …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (III)
8Sunday 27 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken from the back of the high speed catamaran …
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Fruit : Jujube
5Sunday 27 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Jujube, or Ziziphus jujuba, Red Date, Chinese Date, Korean Date, or Indian Date… Here we call them Hünnap. But as you …
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New England USA ~ Rich Boy Lifestyle
12Saturday 26 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Yesteryear look-back’ mini-series #3 has taken us back to 1980’s New England, in America’s north-east. The first was based in …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (II)
6Saturday 26 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. Taken by …
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Fruit : Sloe
13Saturday 26 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
What is called “Deli Erik” (or Wild Plum) here in Turkey is sort of a wild Sloe. Most folk cut …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (I)
14Friday 25 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the sun setting on a beach here in Turkey – it’s …
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MH17… A Most Despicable Act
11Friday 25 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Whatever you nationality, politics, background, or circumstance, the downing of flight MH17 was a senseless and despicable act of terror. …
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Flower Friday – Summer Softness
2Friday 25 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Fruit : Green Figs
14Thursday 24 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
We have both green figs and black figs. The green figs are usually one of the first summer fruit, after …
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Colour Of The Day: White
15Thursday 24 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The ninth in my mini-series on colours (or even colors). Today’s theme for my look at colours is a look at WHITE …
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Fruit : Peaches
8Wednesday 23 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
We don’t manage to grow large juicy peaches here; I think it’s just too hot and dry. But apart from …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Weekend Pad?
6Wednesday 23 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright…
10Tuesday 22 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Time for another “Tunes I Love” Groningen, The Netherlands… that’s where my love of Tangerine Dream started, back in the …
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Fruit : Apples
23Tuesday 22 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
For most folk, the sight of apples growing on trees is no big deal (and for one of the Spikey’s, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers (IV)
Leave a commentMonday 21 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the foundation level of an earthquake resistant …
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Macro Monday: “Fresh Every Morning”
10Monday 21 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . These little beauties last only a day… . …
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Adventure Travel Anyone?
29Sunday 20 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I absolutely LOVE to travel, as you may have guessed anyway from my writing. For me, the destination is not …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers (III)
5Sunday 20 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a steel container widely used for rubbish collection here in Turkey: …
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Anti-Social Media (?)
44Sunday 20 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Social Media; the bane or backbone of modern existence. See it how you will, we have ALL been dragged willingly …
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New England USA ~ Palatial Places
5Saturday 19 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In the latest ‘yesteryear look-back’ mini-series, this is the third about New England in America’s north-east. We started off with some …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers (II)
24Saturday 19 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a hard case with a fluffy jacket – an Achiote seed …
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Yellow Snow
25Saturday 19 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I guess most folk know that old adage, “Don’t eat yellow snow!” Well that has just been given a whole …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers (I)
23Friday 18 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the single most used and useful container on our farm, our …
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Put Your Toys (& Guns) Away…
11Friday 18 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
CLICK THE IMAGE ALWAYS CLEAR AWAY YOUR TOYS [ THAT APPLIES TO MUMS & DADS TOO ] .
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Flower Friday – From Hampshire
13Friday 18 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
An old foto of the garden of one of the houses I grew up in 🙂 .
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Wassup Grandad?
36Thursday 17 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My maternal granddad died in the mid 70s when I was still in short trousers at school. But I have very fond memories …
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Oh I Do Like A Bit Of Solanum Melongena
22Thursday 17 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I love the way different languages, cultures and countries use such varying names for the same thing. Take the humble …
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Media and the Near/Middle East
10Thursday 17 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
So often we are ‘informed’ about events taking place in my part of the world, the Near/Middle East, but from …
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My Penny Lane
11Wednesday 16 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Today’s offering from my look at ‘Tunes I Love’ is the incomparable 1967 Double-A side vinyl track from The Beatles, …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ And Relax…
7Wednesday 16 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Colour Of The Day: Red (Mk II)
9Tuesday 15 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The eighth in my mini-series on colours (or even colors). Today’s theme for my look at colours is another look at RED. …
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Morning Walk By The Sea
13Tuesday 15 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (IV)
5Monday 14 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from Fethiye here in southwest Turkey (again …
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Macro Monday: “My Jaguar”
11Monday 14 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Remember the post “My Audi“? Well here is my Jaguar… . But not a model this time . . But …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (III)
11Sunday 13 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from Göcek, so yes, yet another from here in southwest Turkey. …
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Fernando Was ‘The Man’
18Sunday 13 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Today’s offering from “Tunes I Love” takes me back to my youth, and the time of ABBA. Love ’em or …
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Guest post: “Water” – by Liz
27Sunday 13 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In this post, we are taken on a journey to look at one of the essentials of our very existence, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (II)
7Saturday 12 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the original passport of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK, the founder and …
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New England USA ~ Whale Watching
17Saturday 12 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is the second in a new ‘yesteryear look-back’ mini-series about New England, that nugget of beauty located in the …
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Cherry Toms – The Old Faithful
15Saturday 12 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Growing tomatoes here is a pain in the proverbial wotsit. Red spider and a host of other buglets and diseases …
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