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Month: February 2012

Marmalade, the second time round.

It is the height of orange season here in Antalya, that time of year when they are really cheap and at the same time unfailingly tasty. And alongside all of the big fat eating oranges and the more diminutive juice oranges, the bitter jam oranges have emerged. These trees are the unfussy rootstock for all …

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On 29/02/201202/03/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized7 Comments

return from planet talk-a-lot-say-nothing

On 26/02/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized4 Comments

Every once in a while, life puts you in the middle of a group of people that may as well be from another planet. This weekend, I took Baki to his school's annual weekend away event. It was held at one of these all-inclusive resort hotels. Being in Antalya, we are actually surrounded by such …

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oh, all right…

On 15/02/201215/02/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized1 Comment

I have always been pretty grumpy on this, the holiday engineered to create maximum misery among the unloved. I would scowl at the bunches of flowers, and fantasize about jabbing mylar balloons with a hat pin. Then I took to ignoring it all. That worked great for a while. But this year, with Baki the …

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Little old me

On 06/02/201206/02/2012 By Garden CorrespondentIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Some of the best ideas are the ones that make us rethink our own. While I was in Istanbul at the end of January, I indulged in one of life's greater pleasures and visited a bookstore. They had a whole table of the Penguin Great Ideas series, and I hovered over it for a good …

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