I placed a poor order from the supermarket today. The only good thing in it was the yoghurt and a few sticks of lemongrass which I hope to grow. Other than that, there was a handful of unpromising raspberries, a funny knobbly fruit that cost 20 lira, a half-rotten bok choi, laundry detergent and a […]
Saturday brunch
We continued our exploration of nice Istanbul neighbourhoods, this time taking the ferry over to Kadikoy (and establishing along the way that the smaller pier has the better and more direct ferries) and walking through to Yeldeğirmeni, which I had just skirted a few weeks ago when I went to get my computer fixed and […]
Again, unexpected
To my surprise, my negotiation was successful and I received an offer very close to what I asked for – in addition to an increased number of working days. So, hurrah! In the evening the GF and I went to a part of Besiktas we had not yet visited, a quiet, trendy bit with a […]
Unexpected
This afternoon I had a call with a potential client to discuss the work and found, to my surprise, it was actually a job interview complete with questions beginning ‘Could you describe a time when…’. Maybe I am more confident than I used to be, or I don’t need the work as much as I […]
Clients return
A client call this morning, for a promising new project. Fingers crossed it works out better than Skype. Emails are starting to come in from clients, particularly the academic ones as they are clearly using the summer to finish up papers left hanging in end of term duties. In the afternoon we went to see […]
In the flow
This week’s tai chi lesson opened up today and managed to revive my interest in it after a slow start. This is the fourth week and for the first time we had a sequence of moves, in a flow. A pleasant change from week 1 (standing), week 2 (swinging arms) and week 3 (standing). At […]
View from the mosque
It was another very hot day. With my computer back I did a bit of work and caught up on some accounting etc which had been waiting for its return. There are still a few fiddly problems with it: the fingerprint reader no longer seems to work, and some programs – specifically, I think, those […]
Back on track
After a longish holiday and returning to find my computer would not come on and taking it off for repair, I’m now back online. I’ll fill in a few posts from the last month retrospectively, but in this one I’ll list some key points and events. First, my computer is working again, hurrah! Who knows […]
Tombs of Dalyan
Today we came to Dalyan. It was a long and hot taxi ride, with few points of interest other than some marbles quarries. There was, occasionally, fine landscape, and at the point at which you break through the hills to the coastal plain there was a stopping point by the road which was also a […]
A deserted stadium
This morning, breakfast and then back to our room to wait for the worst heat of the afternoon to pass. The GF did his standing while I rested my fingers (napped). The around 2 we took the shuttle down to Selcuk and found ourselves a taxi to take us on today’s excursion. We went through […]