Monthly Archives: November 2014
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Volunteering In A Very Old Tuxedo
15Sunday 30 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is the second in my series of posts about volunteering, with a tale that goes back to the early …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge (III)
7Sunday 30 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge tries to show the convergence of straight lines within an arc formation Hope …
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SPIKE WRITES: Spotlight on Duke my Turkey Bird!
2Sunday 30 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
Hi people! …. Meet Uncle Spike who writes a lively and informative blog about life on… -
Table Olives – Salt Cured (part 1)
11Saturday 29 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In some previous posts, we looked at how olives for table use are cured using water, salted, and then preserved in …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge (II)
15Saturday 29 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows the convergence of stone and water, on an old …
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Sweet Home… of Alabama
2Saturday 29 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I went to Montgomery, Alabama once, but that’s as near to being able to label it as ‘home’. But what …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge (I)
15Friday 28 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken a couple of years ago in İzmir, here …
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Skies of November #2
2Friday 28 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is the second in my short series introducing you to our November skies, following on from part one. I enjoy sky …
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Flower Friday – Naxos Backstreets
6Friday 28 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
On another Greek island, Naxos, we again found narrow backstreet’s to explore, camera in hand of course.… . . . . .
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Iz, the one and only
12Thursday 27 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Anyone remember this giant of a man? This was the late and very great Israel “Iz” Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, who brought …
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Sunrise Over Mt Kenya
8Thursday 27 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One of a series of sunrise shots I took from a distant ridge near to Rumuruti, in Northern Kenya, …
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Thankful at Thanksgiving – from Türkiye
21Wednesday 26 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
It’s that time of year again when three things happen. One – over half my readers disappear to gorge on …
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Skies of November #1
7Wednesday 26 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This short series will introduce you to some of our fabulous November skies. These shots have all been taken over …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Gone to seed
5Wednesday 26 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 2)
11Tuesday 25 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we got as far as preparing table olives by soaking them in water. Now we continue the …
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Dried Foods: Other Stuff
11Tuesday 25 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In addition to drying aubergines/eggplants in various forms, and of course peppers, we also have a few other foodstuffs that get dried and kept in the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (IV)
5Monday 24 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken on the beach at …
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Macro Monday: “Cute Arachnoid”
7Monday 24 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Living in rural Turkey, we share our world with our arachnid friends; from tiny weeny …
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Peeling a Pommie
32Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another question I am often asked, is how the chuff does one peel a pommie (that is, pomegranate to normal …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (III)
1Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is another image from Ankara, Turkey; it’s a three sided sheet water …
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Deniz Börülcesi
6Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
What the heck am I on about? Well, Deniz Börülcesi, as we call it in Turkish, is a salty, seaweedy …
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Memories of ancient Aspendos (2 of 2)
12Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The first part of this post introduced you to Aspendos, an ancient Greco-Roman city on our southern Mediterranean coast, close to …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (II)
6Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a monument to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president …
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 1)
6Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we looked at how olives for table use, rather than oil production, are picked, sorted and prepared. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (I)
7Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the Ataküle Tower in Ankara, the capital city of my country, …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – Preparation
7Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
2014 has been an average year for our olive harvest. This year was a ‘harvest’ year in terms of yield, …
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Flower Friday – More Syros Colour
3Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
More street shots from the Greek island of Syros, the capital of the Cyclades. On every street, at every corner you …
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REBLOG: Exotic Kerala
3Thursday 20 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Kerala is certainly one of my favourite places. Located on the west coast of southern India, Kerela is known as …
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When Cuttings Seem To Take
10Thursday 20 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In the winter, like many gardeners, I tend to cut, trim, prune and chop a lot of the shrubs and …
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Dried Foods: Peppers
13Thursday 20 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Peppers are one crop which I know I can grow really well from early summer (May) right through until the …
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REBLOG: To Rhonda.
12Wednesday 19 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I’m sure that many of you will remember our blogging sister, Rhonda Elkins, who we sadly lost on August 29th. …
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Turkish Weddings – Street Dancing
12Wednesday 19 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
We do like to do things a little differently here, that’s for sure! . When we have a wedding, the …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Morning Moon
3Wednesday 19 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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REBLOG: State of Emergency
6Tuesday 18 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Heaven On Earth:
Friends, as of this writing, Lancaster, NY is in a state of emergency. We have at… -
Late Autumn Rain
10Tuesday 18 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
September 20th – that’s the date set in our diary each year that usually signals the end of summer, and …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (IV)
7Monday 17 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge takes me back to the early …
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Dried Foods: Aubergine
9Monday 17 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
We often dry foodstuffs for use ‘out of season’, especially where we have a good crop of something or other. …
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Macro Monday: White Hibiscus
5Monday 17 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Not seen hibiscus in white before, just red normally here…. Kinda like it – hope …
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SPIKE WRITES: Camels & Cats
2Sunday 16 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Pictures:
Here goes the guest post by Uncle Spike – and it’s about cats! 🙂 Lesia asked… -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (III)
5Sunday 16 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from the time that my wife and I designed and built …
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Table Olives – Picking & Sorting
19Sunday 16 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. Picking olives for oil production is one thing, but for table olives, that is, the ones you want to …
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Memories of ancient Aspendos (1 of 2)
19Saturday 15 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
On the occasional walkabout (or driveabout) away from the farm, one of our passions is to visit some of the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (II)
19Saturday 15 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken this morning, and is of our son, a …
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Weekend Away Morning Walkies
14Saturday 15 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Grabbing a long weekend away, ore even just a one-nighter, is so good for the soul, and for family life, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement (I)
13Friday 14 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from 1987, and the time that a good friend of mine …
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Unorthodox Musical Talent
Leave a commentFriday 14 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I’m always intrigued by those in life who are a bit ‘different’; you know, folk who take the unorthodox route, …
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Flower Friday – Syros In Bloom
7Friday 14 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another visit to the Greek islands; this time it’s Syros, the capital of the Cyclades. The abundance of colour catches …
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Fancy a dance – on the ceiling?
15Thursday 13 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Dancing on one’s ceiling, or anyone else’s for that matter, is not perhaps an everyday pastime for most of us …
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Apricot Tree Gummosis
10Thursday 13 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The latest ‘Guess What‘ challenge had this colourful image… . Did you get it, or even close? . Well we …
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Bedrooms are for what?
10Thursday 13 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Most folk have a spare bedroom or two, usually kitted out for an unexpected visitation by the outlaws, that distant …
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