Monthly Archives: July 2015
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The Trooper
12Friday 31 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
And now for something completely different… These guys are 2CELLOS, a Slovenian/Croatian duo – Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. If you …
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Flower Friday ~ Pink success
8Friday 31 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of my favourites…. I lost a few during transplant this spring from established cuttings from two years ago, but …
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SPIKE WRITES: “Gettin’ the hang of it!”
5Friday 31 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
….. Yes it’s Brian the talking Rooster from Uncle Spike’s Farm again. Brian is the regular monthly… -
Throwback Thursday – The first weeks
8Thursday 30 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When we first took on the farm it was just an overgrown mess, with trees in poor condition and one …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up (IV)
1Thursday 30 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is new leaves on a grape vine, …
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Greenhouse: Before & After
9Wednesday 29 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Before (2007) . After (2015)
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Cultural treat
7Wednesday 29 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up (III)
5Tuesday 28 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the beauty of a flowering broad bean plant, with clouds …
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Black bum tomatoes
13Tuesday 28 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Ok so here’s a strange one for ya… black bum tomatoes! This weird phenomenon is actually very common for us on larger fruit tomato plants. …
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Open road…
5Monday 27 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Can’t beat some open road to clear the mind sometimes…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up (II)
16Monday 27 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was a small find among the woodpile! Hope you enjoy …
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Macro Monday: Aubergine flower
2Monday 27 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This young bee seems to have taken a liking to this rather pretty aubergine or eggplant flower! This is my entry …
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Winter in Istanbul: Fenerbahçe
3Sunday 26 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When in Rome…. or Istanbul. My wife is an avid fan of Fenerbahçe, one of our top three football (soccer) …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up (I)
8Sunday 26 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a bee spotted on a flowering orange tree on our …
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Winter in Istanbul: On the Ferries
11Saturday 25 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Part of my Istanbul adventure during the winter included some ‘boy time’, off on my own exploring. Naturally, ferries came …
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Dikmen Vadısı (1 of 4)
8Saturday 25 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m no lover city lover, that’s pretty much an accepted fact. So, when I’m forced, persuaded, encouraged, pushed, coerced or …
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My beard never grew like theirs
9Friday 24 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
ZZ TOP They were part of my youth; a time that spanned that last bit of compulsory schooling, the start …
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Flower Friday ~ Half closed
3Friday 24 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This pretty little gazania was always like this. It seemed healthy enough, but the petals were always half closed. Strange, …
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Throwback Thursday – Olives indoors!
9Thursday 23 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This takes me back… to the days before the house was fully habitable. We still lived here, but it was …
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Sunrise Ankara
2Thursday 23 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Salt….
Leave a commentWednesday 22 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Central Anatolian salt flats . At the processing factory there are piles of raw salt. .
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Young Pommie
3Wednesday 22 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ‘Half & Half’ (IV)
Leave a commentTuesday 21 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a land split in two (Capadoccia, …
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Cherry tomatoes
9Tuesday 21 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Of all the types of tomato that we have attempted to grow, dwarf cherry are the most successful by far. …
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Wind Turbine
9Tuesday 21 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ‘Half & Half’ (III)
3Monday 20 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge depicts one’s ‘better-‘ or ‘other half’; hence a couple are …
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Macro Monday: Baby Aubergine
3Monday 20 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This cute little baby Aubergine is my entry for Macro Monday this week. Strange to think that these will grow, …
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Winter in Istanbul: Famous mosques from afar
7Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
More grey skies from our winter trip to Istanbul… I’ve always had a fascination for mosques, dating back long before …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ‘Half & Half’ (II)
7Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a view of the Aegean, split half and half by …
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Introducing Maya
19Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is a breakaway post by Uncle Spike to introduce a spot of culture or a moment of Sunday serenity. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ‘Half & Half’ (I)
7Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a split in the canvas all right, bringing symmetry …
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Winter in Istanbul: Boats of Kadıköy
4Saturday 18 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Rain stops play? Nope; it’s only water, and everything dries out eventually, doesn’t it? Gloomy skies over Istanbul in winter certainly …
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Impressive weeds
3Saturday 18 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These large yellow bush things are in fact just weeds that appear all over this part of Türkiye. Most of the time …
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Marriage and Mr Adams
5Friday 17 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This entry into the collection of Tunes I Love is actually very significant to me. As a piece of music it’s one …
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Flower Friday ~ Passion weed?
5Friday 17 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Passion Flower Here it grows like a weed. It gets everywhere… It spreads under the surface… It gets into the trees …
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Remnants of winter past
1Thursday 16 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Remembering a departed blogger
13Thursday 16 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Today would have been Rhonda Elkins’ birthday Sadly Rhonda is no longer with us But friends who met through her blog …
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Basil
9Wednesday 15 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of the better crops this summer, so far, has been the small leaf black basil plants. First planted out …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ All tied up
4Wednesday 15 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Sweetcorn: Progressing well
13Tuesday 14 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Moving on one month after planting, and the corn plants are growing very well indeed. They certainly love the heat …
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Cucumber
8Tuesday 14 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Simple, organic, tasty, free, mine 🙂
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol (IV)
4Monday 13 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a symbol I guess…. looks like a …
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Macro Monday: White Grapes
4Monday 13 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These still very small white grapes are still a couple of months away from maturity. Can’t wait 🙂 Anyway, this is …
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Winter in Istanbul: Galata Bridge
9Sunday 12 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
From the mid-winter stay in Istanbul Wandering the streets in the rain is actually not a bad thing, providing you …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol (III)
5Sunday 12 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the symbol for a crossroad. A simple, yet immediately known symbol …
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Grape vine escapes
3Sunday 12 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This grape vine went a little mad this year!
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Winter in Istanbul: Art & Freedom
4Saturday 11 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
And here’s something else from our mid-winter time up in Istanbul… Art, as an expression of humanity, is something I’ve …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol (II)
13Saturday 11 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a symbol that represents a certain country – bet you can …
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Anatolian highway – Rollin’ on…
1Saturday 11 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol (I)
3Friday 10 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a symbol of national pride. In actuality, it’s a bricked over …
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