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Turkish Tearoom? Turkish Bath? Anyway, a Turkish delight awaits...

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MaryBS · 22/07/2011 19:14

Picture the scene...

From the edge of every terrace and every step hang brilliantly white stalactites, and you can hear the joyful splashing of the waters of the hot springs as they cascade down over slopes where their flow is impeded only by clumps of oleanders.

Nearby is an oasis of refreshments, in our Pamukkale residence, air conditioned and with white washed generously proportioned rooms, with Mellors at the ready, to offer Turkish Massage to anyone who wishes.

The NMBs are in their element, whereas the bishops seem to have found their speedoes again.

Priest's hole is at the back, in a quiet shaded area, stocked with What Car magazines, Turkish rugs and Turkish delight

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purpleknittingmum · 01/09/2011 23:02

Well I think I shall head to bed, just need to put the cat's breakfast in the timer dish for him!

Night!

AandO · 01/09/2011 23:13

Thanks for all the info Maud! How lovely having a friend living in Rome. With regards to costs I suppose it also helps us that Ireland is a very expensive place (?16 for a veggie meal for example) so very expensive cities just seem normal to us! The veggie food in Spain commonly seems to have ham in it also Grin.

PKM - Cat timer dish?

Night all, off to mil for the weekend tomorrow.

stickwithit · 01/09/2011 23:15

Tee, what a day you have had you poor thing. Hope DS has a peaceful night and feels much better tomorrow.

Tree climbing sounds super AandO.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 01/09/2011 23:38

Good night all!

stickwithit · 01/09/2011 23:55

Have just been reading a thread in AIBU related to being an only child. So many negative experiences. Sorry to lower the tone.

Think I will take refuge here for a bit.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 02/09/2011 00:04

::Totters back in::

I haven't seen that thread, stickwithit, and I'm not going to look for it because I guess it's like others I've seen before. The trouble - it always seems to me - is that some people blame everything that's wrong with their life on being an only child/the youngest of six/whatever but that is based on imagining what it would be like not to be those things. They may have been equally miserable if they had had siblings or been the oldest or whatever, it's unknowable.

stickwithit · 02/09/2011 00:25

Very wise words Maud, thank you.

I do wish I could 'rise above' the negative comments rather than letting them upset me. I am very very lucky to have Littlestick.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 02/09/2011 00:32

I hope it helps. The thread often running through threads like that is that birth order or sibling status is destiny and (or so it is often implied) all onlies are doomed to a sad and lonely life. It seems to me that it's our job as parents, whether of onlies or more, to try to ensure that our children have the skills and abilities to form strong relationships and build a contented life for themselves. That way, onlies can escape the dreadful destiny that (allegedly) awaits them!

Right. Really off to bed now.

Thumbwitch · 02/09/2011 00:47

A&O - another vote for Florence over Rome. Tis very busy there but one of the things I really appreciated about it is that you can walk to most places, it's not that big, as cities go - and it is fabulous. It's my favourite Italian city.
My other favourite Italian place is the island of Ischia - another small place, with volcanic spas and lots of seafood. Not sure how well they'd cope with vegetarians (same as most of Italy, I suppose) but one of my favourite things about that place is that you could buy cheap bus tickets that went around the island - you could choose to go anti-clockwise or clockwise, get on and off as much as you liked, or stay on the whole way round (took about 2h). Getting there involves flying to Naples and then taking the boat out.

Glad the school wibbles weren't too bad!

MrThumb and I have only done one overnight away from miniThumb and that was for his Christmas party in Sydney last year. Apart from that, I don't think we'd go away without him - not because we don't enjoy each other's company (:( for you serpent that you think MrSnake would feel that way) but because we rather like having him along on the things we do. We (well I in particular) want to go to Borneo but we're going to have to wait until miniThumb is big enough to remember it so that he doesn't miss out. Couldn't imagine being told that you'd been taken to see the orangutans and having no actual memory of it!!

purpleknittingmum · 02/09/2011 06:17

AandO, yes, love the time dish, saves me having a hungry cat jumping on me or having to get up, feed him and then go back to bed. During the week I am up the same time as he gets fed so a bit daft I suppose using it but we have not got used to it, weekends is when it is most handy!

CMOTdibbler · 02/09/2011 09:12

Brilliant idea PKM - our former cat liked breakfast at 6am and would wake you up for it (this was pre DS), so I wish |I'd had a timer dish then. Current batch hunt in the night so aren't as hungry.

School uniform shopping this morning (not too much thankfully), then horse dentist (ds v v v excited) then cake making for community cheese and wine gathering this evening

Tee2072 · 02/09/2011 09:48

Morning all

LCT onto the V part of D&V along with a fever now. It's about 99.5F so I'm letting it sit and have him in shorts although hardly shirt weather here in Belfast!

I have never left LCT overnight (except in hospital Confused or with MrTee) because I have no one to leave him with. My parents are too and PILs are too infirmed.

I would though, if I had someone!!!

mistlethrush · 02/09/2011 10:09

A friend and I 'did' Italy via interrail - rather than trying to tick off as many countries as possible, we had 3 weeks in Italy and a week in Switzerland.

Italy highlights - Sienna, Assisi (that was pre earthquake of course), Florence, Venice and Sorrento. We were staying with my cousin in Florence - which was the least good bit about it due to sheer numbers in the flat (I think there were 15 of us in a 4 bedroom flat) and the mosquitos - and in fact the food - but that was just because she wasn't walking around Florence all day so wasn't thinking that we needed as much food as we did... so we were picking up slices of pizza BEFORE meeting her for lunch etc! Grin

Rome - didn't like the traffic and the noise. Not easy to walk around (and we couldn't afford anything else). Naples - couldn't stand the traffic to the extent that we left after only 2 hrs and went down to Sorrento - as it was right at the end of the season (mid Oct) it was very quiet and sleepy - had a trip to Amalfi from there (lovely) and Pompei.

Tee - hope things improve today!

UniS · 02/09/2011 10:09

Boy still asleep. I'm letting him as its last weekday of teh Holidays. He's in for a shock next week tho. 5 days of being woken at 7.30...

mistlethrush · 02/09/2011 10:15

'woken at 7.30' !!!!!!!

MC's continued his normal getting up time of about 6.30 (or sometimes earlier) throughout the summer hols. Hmm

UniS · 02/09/2011 10:37

I know- hes not normal is he. still asleep ...
I'm bored, might go and wake him up.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 02/09/2011 13:17

Girl would probably sleep in to 9 or 10am (in term time or in holidays) if we didn't go and poke her with a stick in the morning. She has inherited my Dormouse-like capacity for sleep. What it will be like when she's a teenager, I dread to think.

Thumbwitch · 02/09/2011 13:17

UniS - he might not be normal but neither is miniThumb! I'll have to do something about his sleep patterns before he starts pre-school, he still mostly sleeps until around 8am, which is great for me - but both of us will have to adapt and change that so we get to pre-school on time.

beanandspud · 02/09/2011 14:05

Small Bean tends to wake at almost exactly 7am every morning. The days I am late for work are always because "my alarm clock slept in!".

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 02/09/2011 17:06

I hear what you're all saying about Florence, but what clinches it for me is that Audrey Hepburn rides on the back of Gregory Peck's Vespa in Rome, not Florence! If you are going to Florence, stay in Fiesole, which is beautiful in itself and also much cooler.

purpleknittingmum · 02/09/2011 18:39

My daughter is terrible for getting up in the mornings, on school days she sets her alarm for 6.15, I go in at 7 to tell her the time and I don't go in again, if she is late it is her problem, too many times I would constantly go in! When it is holidays she gets up about 10 - 10.30. We want to be up to the shopping centre pretty early tomorrow so will have to give her a nudge!

beanandspud · 02/09/2011 21:26

Just opening Friday night Wine...

Mr Bean is home after a week away, nothing special planned for the weekend, and enjoying a night in front of the tv. Anyone got anything exciting planned?

mistlethrush · 02/09/2011 21:29

Picking up mc from my parents tomorrow.

I'll take him to karate on Sun afternoon as he's got a grading coming up the following weekend - and hasn't done much over the summer hols!

Monday - day off with mc before first day of school on the Tuesday.

Donki · 02/09/2011 23:31

Aaaargh!
DH has yet again decided that he was feeling better and stopped the St John's Wort. Then he wonders why he is depressed again....
The man drives me mad sometimes. He won't go to the Doctor, and just doesn't get it.
And then tiny things throw him completely and he spends all day moping, and wondering why he is feeling bad. I finally twig what is going on and ask if he has stopped the St John's Wort again - and invariably he stopped it about a week earlier.

MEN!

amberlight · 03/09/2011 07:31

I think arrrrghh is about right, Donki.