Monthly Archives: April 2015
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Springtime and everythings growin’
9Thursday 30 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spring is here, and almost gone I guess you could say. We are rapidly marching towards summer, as the mercury …
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Broad bean leaf salad
19Thursday 30 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m busy tomorrow, so scheduling in advance. This was gonna be about my roses again, but feeling rather peckish…. And …
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In memory of our bougainvillea…
11Wednesday 29 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It looks like our two bougainvillea’s have become the latest victims from the much colder than normal winter, albeit it was just perhaps ten …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ In flight
3Wednesday 29 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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More winter veg successes
17Tuesday 28 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A follow-on post about the winter veggies, and this time focussing on our ‘above soil’ varieties this time. A few …
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First roses are out
25Tuesday 28 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As with everything in the garden, the rose are out that bit later this year, but nonetheless, they are worth …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion (IV)
2Monday 27 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is our kiddo swimming on the Greek island …
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Macro Monday: Cute little weed
4Monday 27 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This beautiful little flower is in fact from a weed found growing in between the beetroot plants this spring. Tiny, …
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East Africa: Shopping
23Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
On the whole, shopping malls leave me cold. In general I have little desire to trudge my way around endless corridors of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion (III)
3Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the flag of our neighbours, Greece, flapping away in the wind …
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Lemon recovery – result
15Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the ongoing saga of the lemon trees versus the unexpected and rare cold snap this past winter, we have seen mixed results. …
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Winter veg successes
25Saturday 25 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After such a long wet and cold winter (not compared to most of yours, but it’s all relative), the vegetable …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion (II)
6Saturday 25 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge captures the motion of our kiddo running from the surf …
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It’s hay time
11Saturday 25 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s hay cutting time for me, but of course it’s all done by hand as we farm on a small …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion (I)
20Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
SPOT THE HAWAIIAN DIVER…! This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a series of motion shots if …
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Gallipoli: lifelong dedication
13Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my second post about the one hundred year anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War One. Large official centennial memorial …
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Flower Friday ~ Rosemary
7Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Simple beauty of the Rosemary bush. .
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Gallipoli: 100 years
10Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One hundred years ago, the almost 9 month Gallipoli Campaign of World War One ended. The Allied forces withdrew from the peninsula, …
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Orchard in bloom
7Thursday 23 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The citrus orchards are in full bloom right now. Whilst I can’t hear myself think for the noise of a …
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Lizard time
13Thursday 23 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As the weather warms up, the creatures of summer start to appear. Tortoises are already out, and very soon we’ll …
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Citrus tree health update
18Wednesday 22 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following the really cold snap of -5C (23F) we experienced for a few nights over winter, many of the fruit trees had …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ The yacht
5Wednesday 22 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird (V)
4Tuesday 21 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fifth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the sunrise just to the …
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SPIKE WRITES: Duke says….”I got a new job too Aunty Gill”
2Tuesday 21 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
Meet Duke the talking bird……Regular Guest Spot from: Uncle Spike’s Adventures….. and the Chicken Roost in… -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird (IV)
4Monday 20 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is one of my personal favourites. We were back on …
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Macro Monday: Baby plums
14Monday 20 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . . The plum trees are one of the …
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REBLOG: Cry for Africa..
4Sunday 19 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on The Rider:
I have been silent in the past two weeks. Why? I AM ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY!… -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird (III)
7Sunday 19 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken at full zoom, so apologies for the quality, …
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More springtime offerings
2Sunday 19 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spring is a beautiful time of year here in Türkiye, as much as anywhere else. It’s not too hot, but …
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East Africa: The Kids
24Saturday 18 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Travelling is, or was for a long time to me anyway, a way of life, and then became one of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird (II)
7Saturday 18 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken from the back of a boat at dawn …
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White Mulberry tree – springtime
2Saturday 18 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The simplicity of nature. One of our White Mulberry trees in early springtime.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird (I)
12Friday 17 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken on an early morning walk in late January …
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Boston – Music & City
13Friday 17 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Boston is a city close to my heart for a number of reasons; but here’s just three: 1 – I …
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Flower Friday ~ Little trumpets
6Friday 17 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in the UK quite a few years ago, these bizarre flowers are rather pretty, even if I don’t …
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The large and the small
14Thursday 16 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of my favourite images I have captured over the years has been of a very young tortoise found wandering …
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Bee photography
22Thursday 16 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Like most farms and gardens, the annual chores are pretty much same old, year in year out, so trying to …
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To pea or not to pea…
8Wednesday 15 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The early signs of life in the greenhouse were good, and a few months later the crop looks pretty healthy. …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Working a lock
4Wednesday 15 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (V)
7Tuesday 14 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fifth and final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a group of happy hippos, all afloat as …
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They call this weeding…?
11Tuesday 14 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A spot of light gardening, they said…. Pull a few weeds, they said…. After the rains of winter and the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (IV)
1Monday 13 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a small boat upon a ship, but so very important …
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Macro Monday: Pomegranate
1Monday 13 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . . Looks like some underwater plant, but in …
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Greek Goats
11Sunday 12 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
We are so used to seeing goats all over the place. Our neighbouring farms keep them, we hear them every …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (III)
1Sunday 12 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is about the life of a small boat, living it’s days afloat. …
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Springtime roundup…
6Sunday 12 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After a strange winter, with storms and heavy rain for some three months, spring seems to have finally arrived. However, …
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New life: Olive trees
3Saturday 11 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The olive trees are starting up once again for a new season ! . In early springtime, most the leaves …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (II)
4Saturday 11 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image of something I tried a few times, but failed …
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Interesting balcony visitor
26Saturday 11 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Ok then oh wise friends of the ornithology persuasion, what’s this beauty then? I was sat there at the dining …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (I)
23Friday 10 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the epitome of ‘to be afloat’…. ah, those dreamy days of watching not …
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