Monthly Archives: May 2015
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Anatolian Road Trip Scenery
8Sunday 31 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A last minute family event the other week saw me take another road trip to Ankara, the capital city of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the way (III)
2Sunday 31 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the pilot boat that is on the way to a ship it …
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Dill seed head
4Sunday 31 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Dill is such a small and delicate herb – and which I’m about to chop back for summer and cut/freeze …
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SPIKE WRITES: Meet Brian !
2Saturday 30 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the way (II)
5Saturday 30 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken by me in a truck on the way …
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“Daddy, look there’s Europe!”
3Saturday 30 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Growing up in Asia, it was an exciting thing for a small person to realise he could ‘see’ another continent! …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the way (I)
18Friday 29 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
…to being fit! This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in Auckland, New Zealand, and …
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Heart of Gold
5Friday 29 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Back in the early 80s a certain Mr Young, his guitar, unique recognisable voice, and of course the harmonica was …
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Flower Friday ~ Delicate in Pink
Leave a commentFriday 29 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This flower belongs to one of a few bushes we have in the ‘house garden’, but when just singled out …
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“Knowledge does not equal understanding”
15Thursday 28 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
“Knowledge does not equal understanding” For those who reckon education is the answer, think again. Now that’s a very brave …
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Pinks n Purples
12Thursday 28 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Despite the fact that we have very dirty rain here, as you can well see on the leaves, bringing back …
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Pet Dinosour
18Wednesday 27 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Local wildlife is never far away, and every day we see things walking, running, flying, crawling and slithering around the …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ The King
11Wednesday 27 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Garden in bloom
13Tuesday 26 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spring and the start of summer is a colourful time here is southwest Türkiye. The temperatures are high enough to stimıulate growth, but …
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A bright start to the day…
13Tuesday 26 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Pre summer chores are gradually getting ticked off, but as the start of Ramadan looms ever closer, and with the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken (IV)
2Monday 25 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is what appears to be a rather broken …
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Macro Monday: Mohican Iris
6Monday 25 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following on from recent posts about our first ever Iris, I was able to get out there and snap a …
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Images of Naxos hinterland (2 of 2)
4Sunday 24 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the first of this two-parter about the Greek Cyclades island of Naxos, you’ll have seen a few general pics of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken (III)
4Sunday 24 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is all about the almost broken economy of Greece. Things are now at a crossroads, …
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Mulberry time
4Sunday 24 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s a race between humans and chooks…. Why? …coz it’s mulberry time ! .
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Rooster ups n downs
9Saturday 23 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The ongoing saga of the daytime fox continues. All farms have lost chickens on a daily basis, albeit she does …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken (II)
5Saturday 23 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a rather defunct flamingo, found on the shores of Lake Baringo …
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Strawberries – yay!
12Saturday 23 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Last autumn I took the decision to move all the strawberry plants. Where they had been for a few years …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken (I)
6Friday 22 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a WWII Greek army jeep. No more words are necessary. . …
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The natural beauty of a woman
18Friday 22 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This a music video, and yes, it’s one that I could consider one of my Tunes I Love, but this …
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Flower Friday ~ Red is the colour
9Friday 22 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Slowly but surely, the garden is becoming more brown by the day as summer approaches, and the ground hardens to …
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East Africa: everyday life
9Thursday 21 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This all started out as a post about open markets of East Africa and then posted some pics of the wonderful …
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“Ok then Bro, which way now?”
5Thursday 21 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Roses are red…
7Wednesday 20 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Every girl loves their red roses, sure, but even us mortal males can appreciate their simplistic beauty. I love these …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ I only sat down!
3Wednesday 20 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Salad stuff
8Tuesday 19 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Took these a couple of weeks ago, but the temperatures have since ramped up (33C, 90F and above), so that …
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Finding snow!
7Tuesday 19 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Traveling between Ankara and Istanbul, back in late January, we came across… SNOW. Ok so I get that for many …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (IV)
10Monday 18 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows a gazebo (we think) that …
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Macro Monday: The rosebud
3Monday 18 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my simple entry for Macro Monday this week. Hope you all enjoy it! SPIKE
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Images of Naxos hinterland (1 of 2)
6Sunday 17 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Naxos was a fleeting visit for us; sandwiched between time spent on a couple of other Greek islands, Astypalea and …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (III)
6Sunday 17 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image of a moorland stream, enveloped by the hillsides …
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The delicate orange rose
11Sunday 17 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Another day, another colour rose…. and today we feature a dusty orange coloured specimen, with hints of lilac and yellow …
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Pure white
11Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Oh go on then… here’s some more roses…. There are many colours that I love in the garden, but how …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (II)
2Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenges shows how we build a steel reinforced concrete boundary wall. …
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Young fruit
8Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As we move into summer, the farm is starting to quieten down after the departure of a million or so …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (I)
11Friday 15 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in our village here in southwest Türkiye, and …
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Private Investigations
9Friday 15 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Dark and moody: that’s how this one sounds to me. It’s Dire Straits enigmatic “Private Investigations”, from the ‘Love Over …
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Flower Friday ~ The Entrance
3Friday 15 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A simple, yet effective combination of flowers against paintwork. Nothing fancy; just peaceful and welcoming. Naxos, Cyclades, Greece, early September …
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Lemon recovery – the senior trees
8Thursday 14 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After the recovery success of the ‘little’ lemon tree, we’ve had to wait to see how the larger trees ended …
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Sorry; more Pomegranate flowers
11Thursday 14 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I know…. it’s only been a few days since featuring the start of the pomegranate flowers, but they don’t last long, …
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Friends of the Cacti
9Wednesday 13 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s that time of year when our various cacti have their babies. We have three species, but these large cacti, which grow …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Waiting for the kill
4Wednesday 13 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Broad bean harvest time
20Tuesday 12 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having planted the broad beans over a month later than in previous years, I am chuffed to see that it …
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Dip in the river
7Tuesday 12 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As a child, I grew up with geese all around our place, as well as chickens, dogs, sheep, ducks, turkey’s …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature (IV)
17Monday 11 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a beach scene after a boat …
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