Monthly Archives: March 2015
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Furry visitors up to no good
14Tuesday 31 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
On the whole, veggies love the rain. It certainly helps most things grow, sometimes even too much, with overgrowth spurts that …
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Summer memories
13Tuesday 31 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Summer of 2007 if I recall correctly, and we found ourselves cooling off ‘up north’, in Balıkesir Province, in the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral (IV)
6Monday 30 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows the ephemeral moment in time …
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Macro Monday: ‘New Pommie Leaves’
2Monday 30 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday These are some of the first leaves on the pomegranate bushes this year. …
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Shades of blue
17Sunday 29 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. The countdown to summer is on! . .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral (III)
7Sunday 29 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge represents the ephemeral moment when the rising sun is ‘just about’ …
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Life in Türkiye
17Sunday 29 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Western influences continue to transform Türkiye; now whilst some are for the better, that does not account for everything of …
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Veggie News Update
10Saturday 28 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m very much behind on seasonal chores; what with health and weather both taking their toll this year. Thankfully the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral (II)
24Saturday 28 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is another ephemeral moment we are all familiar with, the fleeting minute …
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Roadside Prayer Rooms
7Saturday 28 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After my recent post introducing some of our rural mosques, I thought of some more you might be interested in, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral (I)
19Friday 27 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a Masai tribesman in ‘mid-jump’. If ephemeral means the capture of something that …
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Dreadlock Holiday
9Friday 27 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here’s another of the Tunes I Love for your entertainment and perhaps a memory-jogger for some of the ever greying mob, such as yours truly, who …
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Flower Friday ~ Doorway Colour
1Friday 27 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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The ‘other’ bikes of Syros
13Thursday 26 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having mentioned the top-end bikes we came across on the Cyclades island of Syros, one mustn’t think that all the …
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“White or red madam?”
14Thursday 26 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This actually exists in Cappadocia – Central Anatolia, Türkiye. One tap serves white wine; the other red…. I might be …
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Top end bikes of Syros
Leave a commentWednesday 25 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Like most islands in Greece, the Cyclades island of Syros is no different in terms of having an abundance of …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Scottish Busker
3Wednesday 25 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Not all buskers are the same… .
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The Fish Eagle
12Tuesday 24 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
We have a lot of bird-life where we live, and the sounds never stop – something I’ll never tire of. …
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SPIKE WRITES: Its all change! It’s Spring!
Leave a commentTuesday 24 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
THE STORY SO FAR: Always second to Pablo the King, Duke the Rooster is learning to… -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (IV)
9Monday 23 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the freshness of new life as seen …
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Macro Monday: ‘First Clementine leaves’
4Monday 23 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday The new season and the new leaves are starting to appear in the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (III)
4Sunday 22 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is all about the freshness of nature through rain and is effect …
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Internet… or lack thereof!
12Sunday 22 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is a quick explanatory note and a bit of an apology… Over a week ago we had a rather …
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Midday Fox Visitation
18Sunday 22 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Foxes are just part of rural life, and on a regular basis we all lose chickens to feed the babes …
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Peppers & Yoghurt
11Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of my favourite side dishes are hot peppers served with yoghurt – very traditional fare and my treat. My …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (II)
10Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken during one of my ‘juicing’ sessions, when I extract …
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Plum Trees
4Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Our plum trees are looking so pretty this year! . . . . . . . .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (I)
15Friday 20 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is our lawn now that spring has arrived here in southwest …
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Angelo
11Friday 20 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This one takes me back to 1977 and the Brotherhood of Man, remember them? My favourite of theirs was probably …
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Flower Friday ~ Spring Periwinkle
9Friday 20 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spring has arrived… It’s official I guess, as the periwinkle is in flower .
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Fertiliser Spreading
3Thursday 19 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spreading the fertiliser is a slow and laborious job, taking the best part of four hours for the main orchard …
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Vultures, hmm….
2Thursday 19 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I was sat outside on a rock this morning taking a break from the farm chores, watching the birds up …
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Fertiliser Preparation Time
6Wednesday 18 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
So the time has come to ‘do’ the fertiliser… a rather long storm has recently passed through, so the earth is …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Lake Victoria, Tanzania
4Wednesday 18 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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My Fertiliser Truck
7Tuesday 17 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Following on from my car’s recent tractor-type duties with shifting the wood cut from the olive trees after this …
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Excellent for salad
8Tuesday 17 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of our best natural ingredients we have for a fresh salad are from the broad beans. . . We …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall (IV)
9Monday 16 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a rather colourful wall I spotted near …
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Macro Monday: ‘Plum Blossom’
2Monday 16 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday For a change, the plum trees were not the first to go into …
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Ouch Misses Chicken
8Sunday 15 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One chook laid a huge two-yolk whopper 🙂 I bet that hurt!! .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall (III)
8Sunday 15 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the final wall to be built when we constructed our house, …
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My Logging Truck
22Sunday 15 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having pruned a number of the olive trees for regeneration, and lopped a few branches from wild Bay trees, the …
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Homemade Bread
12Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I have no home phone or internet this weekend, thanks to a nine hour storm that knocked out the local …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall (II)
4Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was incredible carved wall at a place called ‘Anıtkabir’, in Ankara, the capital …
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Happy Pi Day
12Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having a short nerd in the house is comical at times. Earlier this week he drew the symbol for infinity …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall (I)
12Friday 13 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the mega retaining wall we constructed on the farm to separate …
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After all…
5Friday 13 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Today’s offering from “Tunes I Love” is not one that I would have predicted for my list to be honest. …
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Flower Friday ~ Kos Agora
Leave a commentFriday 13 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Taken in the Agora on the Greek island of Kos. This post is about the colour of the bougainvillea …
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A spot of wood cutting
11Thursday 12 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having pruned over 250 trees this season, I can finally declare that job to be behind me, at last. It’s …
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Local Mosques
8Thursday 12 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
We have some 83,000 mosques dotted around our country. Some are huge, such as the massive Kocatepe Mosque in central Ankara… …
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Lemon recovery
14Wednesday 11 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Although two of the lemon trees look pretty much ‘gone’, and the largest is still in panic shut-down mode, we …
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