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| New Born |
Twenty two hours on a bus; scorpion stings, infected lower leg from insect bites, are run of the mill for hardened travellers like ourselves, but five kittens being born in the middle of the night is enough to soften the hardiest of travellers. Midwife Megan sprang into action, rescuing the two firstborn from roll of loft insulation, then looking on as the rest emerged. The hard worker didn’t need anything, Megan and I needed a cup of tea! Megan demanded I donate a tee-shirt for the new arrivals to make them comfy which I gladly did. The infected lower leg was treated with painful injections of antibiotics just in time; otherwise I would have to have had it amputated. Well, I would have eventually, if antibiotics hadn’t been invented or, is it discovered, what the heck I had them anyway.
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| One week old |
It is very beautiful here, the pine clad hills all around, and in the mornings we can hear and see above the pines, Bee Eaters flying around, trilling away. We are in a smallish clearing in the forest, Ayse and Cengiz have two houses, three if you count the old farm cottage where we sleep, one of the houses sleeps ten and is rented out, a group of Russians had it when we arrived. Their home also has rooms to rent like a B & B; there is also swimming pool for which I am the current pool boy – first job in the mornings. We do a variety of jobs, cleaning, tidying, and helping to serve meals. We also have ‘projects’ Meg is creating decorations for an upcoming wedding; I have made various things including a recycling area.
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| Meg and the chickens |
Time is a strange commodity for us, with no fixed weekends and we take time off when we can. Our present Helpx day is quiet long but that is compensated for, for example our hosts paid for a day boat trip around the islands near Fethiye; lots of swimming in the sea and a lunch thrown in, we had a great day. Our hosts are very nice and it is peaceful here, time seems to stand still and rush by at the same time. It seems like we have been away for ever but at the same time, no time at all and nearly five months have gone by!
We stay in Turkey for three weeks after we leave here and we have booked flights to … no that will have to wait for another Blog, bye.
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| View from Dikencik |
This is the first chance I've had to log on since we spoke. Glad to see you're both recovering from respective injuries. When your trip is over, it seems to me you could become Turkish tour guides. Please send one of the kittens - not sure Huggermugger would approve, but he'd come round eventually if it were female. K XXX
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