This is Cyprus...

7 min read 2021-07-15 01:05:00

Sorting our Guest Flat

The ground floor of our house is a separate flat - it was the house that was originally built on our plot, before the owners extended upwards. Since

8 min read 2021-05-19 20:59:00

It's a bit of a shock to realise that my last post was early in March. Time seems to expand and contract more randomly than usual in these

10 min read 2021-03-02 21:22:00

We have new curtains in our dining room. It sounds so simple. But somehow things are never quite as easy here as one might expect...Way back in

5 min read 2021-01-16 02:58:00

It's only three weeks since Christmas. That's easy enough to calculate, of course, but it feels like much, much longer. December - when we were still

3 min read 2020-12-24 21:38:00

I have written a post each year for the past decade on - or close to - Christmas Eve. So as Richard is currently carving the turkey, with the doors

4 min read 2020-12-10 02:41:00

Although Advent started on November 29th, I wasn't quite ready to start thinking about Christmas preparations until December started. Well - other

3 min read 2020-11-30 22:14:00

It's just over ten years since the 'Green Dot' company introduced recycling in Larnaka (and elsewhere in Cyprus). We were a little dubious at first,

4 min read 2020-11-30 01:20:00

I can remember having an Advent calendar as a child. It was usually a cardboard affair, with a scene of the Nativity, or shepherds, perhaps, in

3 min read 2020-11-28 20:12:00

Two weeks ago exactly I wrote a post with a few images I associate with Autumn in Cyprus. Some fruit, a cat bed, a cloudy sunset, and a few fallen

5 min read 2020-11-27 20:27:00

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the latest restrictions on travel, shopping, meetings etc in Cyprus. These were introduced in the hope of

5 min read 2020-11-26 21:42:00

At the end of last week, I wrote about a shopping trip to Lidl, and the disadvantages inherent in going there, as so many items are inconsistently

4 min read 2020-11-24 23:15:00

Anyone who has followed or popped into this blog over the course of the past decade and a half will probably have come across mention of our roof

5 min read 2020-11-24 01:20:00

As I wrote in a post nearly two weeks ago, I have a somewhat overcrowded shelf of books which I haven't yet read. I just stopped typing to count, and

4 min read 2020-11-23 02:53:00

Our two years in the United States (1992-1994) made us somewhat bilingual as far as British/American words and phrases go. On the whole I use British

3 min read 2020-11-21 19:20:00

Just two days ago, I wrote about the Larnaka Salt Lake. It's an interesting area not just because of the salt, but because it's home to thousands of