Time runs away from you here.  We have been back in Kirazli for three weeks and amongst the whirl of dinners and potential business meetings and friends calling in it has passed in a flash.

The garden and pool have been our main occupation and after just three days back Phil had the pool sparkling (but way too cold for him to swim in! (Only 18 degrees and he won’t go in until it is over 22 degrees!) and new plants had been bought and the grapevine transplanted and seeds planted and subject to daily nurturing.  Already the night scented Stock and Tarragon are growing like mad and you can practically see the grape vine growing as it happily curls up the sun warmed wall of the main house.

Today is glorious, it’s hot sun and clear blue skies and the courtyard is bright and blooming as all the verbena flower at once.  Phil is currently taking arty photo’s of the cascades of little purple flowers trailing from the planter by the pool.

It is already warm enough to eat out in the evenings and tonight we have a full moon to light our dinner of fillet steak in pepper sauce – fillet steak is currently 9ytl a pound at the village butcher, that’s about £3.50 at today’s exchange rates!  Who could complain at that.

I have so much I want to write.  I want to write about the village; and about how much less I waste here; and how peaceful it all is and so much more cheerful than the UK that seems to be drowning in depression.  But it will have to wait a while.  It’s too nice to be inside today!
posted 19-04-2008