Our corner of SW Turkey has slipped gently and warmly into spring. Insects are buzzing and joining intimate bits of their anatomy. Birds are buzzing and busily stuffing bits and bobs into nest boxes and other suitable orifices in between joining intimate bits of their anatomy, albeit fleetingly. Bumper Cars Even tortoises are buzzing, rushing [...]
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It’s at least twelve years since J and I were last in Sagalassos – I remember it well, I was cold and wet and miserable! 1600 metres above sea level up Akdağ in the Toros range it is a city of the clouds. At least it was until bubonic plague, a couple of earthquakes, problems [...]
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There are times when being awake is worse than reliving that moment in the film ‘Alien’ when John Hurt leans over one of those ‘eggs’ in the hold of the alien ship and suddenly – Waaaghhh! – the thing is all over his face and doing a Linda Lovelace impersonation. (‘Deep Throat’ people – ‘Deep [...]
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One-man projects are my thing. I don’t like people in my workshop and I don’t handle advice about ‘how to’ as well as I should – it’s a trait, like much else, that I blame on my mother rather than do too much uncomfortable self-analysis! This is why the latest project here at ‘Chez Nous’ [...]
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From Each According To Ability, To Each According To Need (Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program) J and I believe fervently in a more equal society. A society where needs are met regardless of ethnic origins, intelligence or gender; a society where money counts for nothing because it is obsolete; a society [...]
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Look at this photograph – it was taken just two weeks ago. The track outside our garden was flowing like a river from the torrential rain and hailstones were piled up in various corners. The sky was drab and gray – we were drab and gray and spent much of our time camped around the [...]
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When I was a kid I was fascinated by wildlife, it’s a passion that has lived on and I’m as curious today as I ever was. As was normal back then I collected anything and everything – from eggs to skulls (including a human one from the grave yard until it was discovered and I [...]
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Whilst J and I were on our Magical Mystical Tour seeking out those beautiful and evocative painted mosques for convenience we based ourselves in the small town of Pamukkale. It’s a good few years since we visited the site of the travertines and, although mildly amazed, we spent the bulk of our time exploring the extensive [...]
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Our last port of call on this ‘mystical’ tour is to the Çarşı or Marketplace Mosque in the village of Yazır Köyü some 14 kms SE of Acıpayam just a few kilometres off the D585 Denizli-Antalya road. There are family links through marriage between Acıpayam and my own village of Okçular. The town lies more [...]
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This post was going to be the one that brought the ‘Mystical Tour’ to a fitting climax, but then a beautiful Spring day, the gorgeous Kösten Dağ, the mountain behind our house, and my dear J with two sets of walking boots in her hands conspired to bring about what, back in the 50′s, the [...]
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