Monthly Archives: August 2014
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Make ’em work… (part one)
4Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Apart from the help young Cousin Spike Jnr was on the farming side of life, we also made sure he …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue (III)
4Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is of some non-verbal ‘dialogue’ regarding the inspection of dads …
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Bubble Wrap Is FUN..!
13Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
You know when you buy something online, it often comes wrapped up in that plastic film of bubbles, known affectionately …
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Sweetcorn – oops
11Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It wasn’t meant to be… As suspected from my earlier posts, the sweetcorn crop succumbed to the usual ailments this …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue (II)
5Sunday 31 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image from Kenya of some tribal elders deeply engrossed …
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Hues of Pink, Purple & Blue
4Saturday 30 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The best colours in the summer garden, for me, are those of the pink, blue and/or purple variety. . . …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue (I)
21Saturday 30 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge may not be ‘photographic dialogue’, but this image shows some ‘dialogue’ …
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“Your Song”… Is it?
8Saturday 30 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Time for another of the Tunes I Love, and this takes me right back through to my childhood in the …
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Gotta Love Summer Storms
4Friday 29 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Out of the blue, literally, we can suddenly have a deluge from above. I just love summer storms – short, …
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Where’s The Watcher?
3Friday 29 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Room for rent… Decent view… Full air conditioning… Apply within. .
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Flower Friday – Seven Months a Year
11Friday 29 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Spoken With Dignity
8Thursday 28 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
All men are created equal…
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Summer Skool Wiv Dad #6
12Thursday 28 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The last in the series about how we have tried to fill up young Cousin Spike Jnr‘s 92 days off …
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Beautiful Bougainvillea
12Wednesday 27 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One from home… . And a few from other places… . . . . All equally beautiful 🙂 .
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Seat With a View
12Wednesday 27 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Summer Roses – The Result
27Tuesday 26 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Back during last winter I spent a few days trying to resolve our problems with roses during our long hot …
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Tranquil scenery
4Tuesday 26 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray (IV)
4Monday 25 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the “frayed ends” effect seen where these …
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Summer Skool Wiv Dad #5
23Monday 25 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Many of you will know of young Cousin Spike Jnr‘s exploits in the mathematics department and his love for all things …
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Macro Monday: “Evening Visitor”
4Monday 25 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 .
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Are You REALLY In Love?
16Sunday 24 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Love A simple, yet probably one of the most widely over-used, emotive, underrated and misunderstood words in the English language. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray (III)
3Sunday 24 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the frayed ends of a tree… Hope you enjoy this entry. …
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Turkish Police – Drink ‘n’ Drive Stop Checks
15Sunday 24 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Here in Turkey, drivers are routinely stopped by the Traffic Police or Jandarma for checks- of your national ID card …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray (II)
6Saturday 23 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the frayed ends of a seed head. Hope you enjoy this …
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And The Apple Fell…
7Saturday 23 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
What do they say? The apple never falls far from the tree! . Like all grandparents, I think my own …
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Encrusted Iron
3Saturday 23 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Love this small pier structure, particularly the crustaceans that have made it their home over the years… . . . …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray (I)
26Friday 22 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a bit of a cliché, but here are some ‘frayed’ shorts… As I …
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Life and Times of our Peppers
14Friday 22 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It’s that time again when I start another harvest of the peppers. That’ll be the 3rd to date this season …
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Flower Friday – Vibrant Red
8Friday 22 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (VII)
6Thursday 21 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s seventh and final entry from me (sorry, but I really loved this theme) for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a sunset scene …
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Summer Skool Wiv Dad #4
13Thursday 21 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Young Cousin Spike Jnr is continuing with his love of math, sums, mathematics, call it what you will. Most weeks during …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (VI)
1Wednesday 20 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s sixth entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a skyline shot I took at dusk a few weeks ago …
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Summer Skool Wiv Dad #3
8Wednesday 20 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
As with most kids, whatever Mom or Dad does, they’ll wanna have a go too… Each morning, in hope of …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Telephone?
4Wednesday 20 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
BUT…. there is no phone, never has been, and it looks like a new sign. Just WEIRD…!
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (V)
3Tuesday 19 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fifth entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is of a wind turbine from the Datça Peninsula, on …
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Empty Flower Pot (sort of)
Leave a commentTuesday 19 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This was the challenge… to guess what this image was all about. . I know it was a pretty crappy …
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Bet You Can’t Guess This One…!
23Tuesday 19 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Put simply… what is this?
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Call to Prayer
14Tuesday 19 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
For all my friends in the west who have asked to hear the sound of a genuine ezan, or call …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (IV)
10Monday 18 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from our southern Mediterranean coast here in Turkey, around the Kemer …
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Macro Monday: “Baby Clementine”
7Monday 18 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 .
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Complete this? “C’mon……….”
4Sunday 17 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The year was one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-two and around that time a certain young Spike was contemplating starting …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (III)
Leave a commentSunday 17 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is actually Auntie Spike, relaxing on a neighbouring Greek island last summer. …
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No…. Not THAT Tap…!
12Sunday 17 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The laws beset by Marriage 101 dictate beyond any reasonable doubt, that whosoever was to ‘blame’ for ANY incident, should …
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Summer Skool Wiv Dad #2
7Saturday 16 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Not quite big enough for a family swim… but at least Cousin Spike Jnr can cool off during the hot …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (II)
6Saturday 16 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an early morning shot taken on a lake here in southern …
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Life n Times of a Pomegranate
27Saturday 16 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
These fruit fascinate me. They grow on tough, not particularly pretty bushes, have magnificent delicate crimson red flowers, some evil …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette (I)
25Friday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in Minehead, south-west England. Hope you enjoy this …
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Debbie NOT Deborah
13Friday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Back when I was a spotty teenybop in the late 70’s, one of the pin-ups a lad would aspire to …
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Flower Friday – Seaside Roses
Leave a commentFriday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Happy 67th Birthday India !
7Friday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Wonderful, wonderful India…. . A land of mystique, vibrant colours, people of character, head-shaking, tigers, a space programme, smiles, 20,000 …
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