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If you are sitting in front of a pumpkin, knife in hand, wondering whether it's easier to cut round eyes or square eyes, here ar...

Harem Scene by Quintana Blas Olleras (1851-1919) The word sherbet brings two images to my mind. The first, as a child of the Midlands...

Twenty three years ago, we decided that a life without neighbours was for us. Not that we had particularly bad neighbours but one was p...

This time of the year is called Sarı Yaz - Yellow Summer, but I think a better English translation would be "Mellow Summer". Th...

As the chickens come home to roost just across the South Eastern borders of Turkey, life in the South West goes on as normal.  You'd ...

Photo credit - Robert Patrick Friday's talk gave us a few reasons to sweat;  tricky translations, non-compatable memory sticks, non...

I got back from Greece just in time to miss all at the Bayram festival sacrifices, which suits me. The rest of the week has been taken up...

If the passenger-carrying metal tube in which you are sitting is going to break down, then it's preferable to be in one with foils ra...

Airports aren't much fun.  They give travelling a bad name.  I had a 5 hour stopover in Istanbul yesterday, not long enough to get ou...

I've been talked into giving a lecture on the natural remedies found in this part of Turkey and this has had me going through all my old...