Monthly Archives: February 2015
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Guest post: “Scotland – Why I love it. Part 4” – by Annette
2Saturday 28 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the fourth and final part in a mini-series on Scotland. During December 2014 and January 2015, I shared some …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward (II)
4Saturday 28 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge depicts a street entertainer in Mexico City being rewarded with …
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Tower of Ayia
4Saturday 28 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Naxos is one of the Cyclades, a Greek island chain close enough to home for us to get to, albeit …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward (I)
11Friday 27 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the smile on a street entertainer’s face on Children’s Day (23rd …
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Bette Davis Eyes
7Friday 27 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Eyes are important to me; the window to the soul, as they are often described. I admit that I often …
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Flower Friday ~ Greek backstreets
3Friday 27 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Taken in the village of Halki (Chalki) on the Greek Cycladic island of Naxos, this is a familiar scene to be found …
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Citrus Tree Care – Shoot Pruning
15Thursday 26 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Pruning of the citrus trees is really only necessary every three years, when you can end up cutting large branches to …
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Not as tasty as it looked?
18Thursday 26 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The latest ‘Guess What‘ had this image… . Some brilliant suggestions this time around 🙂 – a slice of raw beef …
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I think I’m a duck…
10Wednesday 25 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Running in and out all day between relentless storms to chop up large branches pruned from the large old olive …
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Clues for “Any Ideas?”
10Wednesday 25 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This was the ‘Guess What‘ for yesterday… Any ideas what this image may be of? . ~~~ UPDATE ~~~ Some …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Liquid Glass
19Wednesday 25 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Trees in Need of Some TLC
15Tuesday 24 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As posted a while ago, the citrus trees have had a tough year, with a long hot dry summer that went …
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Any Ideas?
18Tuesday 24 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Not had a ‘Guess What‘ for a while, so here goes… Any ideas what this image may be of? . …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds (IV)
15Monday 23 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a wild onion flower head. These are …
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Macro Monday: ‘Candle’
6Monday 23 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday . It’s actually a fragranced candle on our table during a meal on …
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Red Lentil Köfte
27Sunday 22 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of the meals favoured by the Spike tummy is what is known in Turkish as Mercimekli Köfte (pronounced Mer-ji-mek-li …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds (III)
2Sunday 22 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the opening of new leaves on one of our pomegranate trees on our …
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SPIKE WRITES: “I have a cunning plan Aunty Gill”
1Sunday 22 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
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Guest post: “Scotland – Why I love it. Part 3” – by Annette
3Saturday 21 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the third in a mini-series on Scotland. After my own Scottish travel posts from my past, this one is …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds (II)
8Saturday 21 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the bud of the flower, and subsequently the fruit, of …
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Snow In The Hills
16Saturday 21 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Very cold and windy these past few days, with much of the country freezing its bits off with ice and …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds (I)
15Friday 20 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a shot taken of one of our grape vines, just …
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Mister Seger – Turn the Page
10Friday 20 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The legendary Bob Segar has long been a firm favourite of mine. Music from this American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist …
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Flower Friday – Lemon Tree
11Friday 20 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With a normally quite short and mild winter, some of our fruit trees get a bit confused, with new flowers …
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Black Scorpion this time!
21Thursday 19 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Further to my recent post about the aggressiveness of scorpions, I found another little chap to play with…. This time …
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Morning Catch
3Thursday 19 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Mentioned in [blogging] dispatches…
11Wednesday 18 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A soldier mentioned in despatches (or dispatches) (MiD) is one whose name appears in an official report written by a …
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Turkish Forest Fire Lookouts
8Wednesday 18 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With pine forested mountains and low hills as far as the eye can see, we live out here in the …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Scorpion in the sky?
8Wednesday 18 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. We certainly have scorpions here on our farm in southwest Türkiye, but I must admit we don’t see many …
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Mister Poo, the African version
15Tuesday 17 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Last springtime, here on our farm here in southwestern Türkiye, I was shovelling recycled fodder, courtesy of a gang of local goats, …
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Memories of Zanzibar
11Tuesday 17 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Palm Trees . Turquoise Seas . Sunsets from Stonetown .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (IV)
2Monday 16 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is not quite strictly ‘symmetrical’ I guess, but …
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REBLOG: The Beastie Boys Were Here
Leave a commentMonday 16 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the second of my whimsical, or not so whimsical, posts that have an oblique reference to Barack Obama.…
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Macro Monday: ‘Suckers’
4Monday 16 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday Just love the suckers of an octopus close up, extraordinary things in my …
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Bodrum Fish Markets
3Sunday 15 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Back in the town of Bodrum to share a few more of our memories from our winter visit there… When having …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (III)
6Sunday 15 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image of the cables supporting a footbridge over a …
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Aşure (“ah-shu-reh” in Turkish)
11Sunday 15 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
You may have heard of this dish, Ashure (as it’s spelt in English) as it’s famed in cultures and religions beyond the …
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Guest post: “Scotland – Why I love it. Part 2” – by Annette
12Saturday 14 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the second in a mini-series on Scotland. After the popularity of my own Scottish travel images from the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (II)
10Saturday 14 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a shot of Mount Hasan, an inactive stratovolcano in Aksaray province, …
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Gone Walkies…
5Saturday 14 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I mentioned recently I was enjoying a bit walking…. Well, I started young, and learned from the best. By the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (I)
20Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the marvellous Kocatepe Mosque (pronounced koja-tep-e) in downtown Kızılay, Ankara, the capital …
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Progressive Instrumental Rock
13Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As a teenage rebel, I was more into heavy metal and glam rock music than the modern new age stuff, …
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Flower Friday – Autumn Sun
3Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in the autumn – Turkish sun brings out all the best colours around these parts… . .
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Views from Turgutreis
7Thursday 12 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A few miles past Bodrum, at the very end of the Bodrum Peninsula, is the town of Turgutreis. With summer …
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Waterfalls now ??
6Thursday 12 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The hills are starting to produce waterfalls where there are usually just dry rock faces. I just love the differences …
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Red Sky at Night…
9Wednesday 11 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s been very cold and rainy all day, with snow in the hills and across much of Türkiye, but this …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Rocks meet Sky
7Wednesday 11 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Clear winter skies showcase geological beauty
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Them Poor Lemon Trees
14Tuesday 10 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As I posted recently, we had a short sharp cold cold snap where temperatures dropped to -5C (23F) on a few nights, which is …
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Winter Warmer
12Tuesday 10 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
OUTSIDE: Cold, Wet, Windy INDOORS: Ahh…. bliss 🙂 . .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale (IV)
7Monday 09 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows a rather overloaded bicycle in …
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