Monthly Archives: January 2016
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant (III)
10Sunday 31 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a street entertainer in Mexico City. Hope you enjoy this entry. . …
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Gotcha – Stopped that leak!
13Sunday 31 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Ok, hands up who’s ever owned a house and had a leaky ceiling at some point or other? Most of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant (II)
4Saturday 30 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second Weekly Photo Challenge attempt is a kid in a vibrant coloured tube slide. Hope you enjoy this entry. …
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Defiance: Frisked before prayers
16Saturday 30 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Yesterday I took my son to the huge Kocatepe Mosque in downtown Ankara. It was his first time there, and …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant (I)
16Friday 29 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
How about this for vibrant? My first Weekly Photo Challenge eny-try was taken in a small village in Kenya. Hope you …
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Ilhara Gorge, Cappadocia, Türkiye
7Thursday 28 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Anastaseos Church
1Wednesday 27 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Still relevant – The Great Dictator
11Tuesday 26 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
It’s funny how film and history are forever intertwined, and that we don’t seem to learn from either. Charlie Chaplin, the …
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Australia Day
11Tuesday 26 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Today is Australia Day, the anniversary of when the first ships arrived back in 1788. I know it’ll be a special …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic (IV)
3Monday 25 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth entry from me is the optimism shown by amatuer car restorers in the face of what seem …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic (III)
8Sunday 24 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third Weekly Photo Challenge entry was a long-held optimism… You see, we have a screen in the kitchen, …
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SPIKE WRITES: It’s Brian from the Orange Grove
4Sunday 24 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Originally posted on Gill McGrath:
The boy is back! “All Growed Up” Meet the talking bird from Turkey The bird who… -
Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic (II)
7Saturday 23 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second go at the Weekly Photo Challenge on the theme of Optimistic is from that day when your kid first …
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Preparing that slow goat stew
15Saturday 23 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I was asked by Janey In Mersin (an Aussie expat in southern Turkey) about my method of creating that slow-cooked …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic (I)
6Friday 22 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I try to remain optimistic in life; always have. Life is a journey and for me it has been full …
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Flower Friday ~ Sunflower
12Friday 22 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in summer 2015, in the endless Sunflower fields of the northern Turkish province of Edirne, which is in Eastern …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 3/3
17Thursday 21 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
In my brief look at photographing that majestic animal, the giraffe, I have taken hundreds of shots over the years …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Very very slow cooked goat
8Wednesday 20 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet (IV)
10Tuesday 19 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My fourth Weekly Photo Challenge entry is from Cité Portugaise, in El Jadida, Morocco, and offers us two alphabets placed over …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet (III)
6Monday 18 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge concerns three distinct letters of the Greek alphabet, O, X, …
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Macro Monday: Ladybird/bug
19Monday 18 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Depending on where you are from, you’d know this as a Ladybird (UK), or a Ladybug (US). Here we call it …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 2/3
9Sunday 17 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Photographing giraffes is fun. Not only are they photogenic creatures, they love to pose too… but that’s not all. They …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet (II)
8Sunday 17 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge shows some form of alphabet usage adorning a wall in the backstreets of Bitola, in …
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Got no permission?
11Saturday 16 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I passed this hotel back in the late summer. All was not what it seemed…. I wondered – Where were …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet (I)
17Friday 15 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a signpost to the castle on the Greek island of Astypalea. …
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Flower Friday ~ Winter Grass
4Friday 15 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Ready for action!
9Thursday 14 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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In tribute to Ziggy
7Wednesday 13 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
I have shared many of my heroes of the musical world under the guise of Tunes I Love. Now, unless you …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Waiting for the bus
1Wednesday 13 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Sad times
34Tuesday 12 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Today, another fatal bombing within our borders; taking the total lives lost over 200 in a couple of years. Add that …
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Cute baby dragon or what?
4Tuesday 12 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) (IV)
2Monday 11 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My final Weekly Photo Challenge entry is a dock crane on the Greek Cyclades island of Syros, captured at dusk. …
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Macro Monday: Poppy base
2Monday 11 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) (III)
2Sunday 10 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third Weekly Photo Challenge entry is the Teleferico de Gaia in Porto, Portugal. Like all cable cars, I’m always fascinated …
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Giraffe Photography ~ 1/3
16Sunday 10 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Capturing wildlife, photographically speaking, is always an amazing experience. Whether it’s a lioness on the prowl across the plains of Africa, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) (II)
7Saturday 09 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second bash at Weekly Photo Challenge is pretty much the opposite to my first; this one considering the ‘weightless’ angle with …
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Music that finds one’s soul
17Saturday 09 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Those who follow this blog regularly will know of my quest in finding and sharing music that is special to me …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) (I)
4Friday 08 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for Weekly Photo Challenge uses an image I’ve posted before, but what a great example …
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Flower Friday ~ Flags & Flowers
Leave a commentFriday 08 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Lemons, just a few
14Thursday 07 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Following the disaster of last January, when our big freeze wiped out all the lemons, killing one decent sized fruit-producing …
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The light
6Thursday 07 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Our forests are cold, In the darkness of the night; Then dawn brings new hope, As the skies share the …
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Wot No Cabbages?
5Wednesday 06 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
The sudden cold snap (aka, winter) dissipated after five-six days, and we are back to mild weather, with a mix …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Taking a break
8Wednesday 06 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Kumquat success
8Tuesday 05 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Whilst many crops have not favoured the weird weather of 2015, the humble little kumquat tree seems to be as …
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The mists of time
10Tuesday 05 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Time passes The warmth of summer long departed Exchanged in kind for winter rains I ask myself, “Where are my …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle (IV)
3Monday 04 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the circle of a drum, as seen …
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Macro Monday: Finger puppet?
5Monday 04 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here’s a friendly little praying mantis… We get these a lot around here, and I’m truly fascinated by them. They …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle (III)
11Sunday 03 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
For my third entry to the Weekly Photo Challenge, I have chosen an image of a very shiny Triumph motorcycle, and …
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Maya’s back….
14Sunday 03 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Young Maya, the cheeky little eight year old pianist I met from Türkiye is progressing pretty well, tinkling the ivories …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle (II)
4Saturday 02 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge entry are simple 2D circles representing 3D spheres, namely, some juicy green apples. Hope you …
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