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• Quentin Crisp

  

  Mentioning Quentin Crisp in a recent post compelled me to re-watch the Naked Civil Servant, Crisp’s TV biopic first broadcast in 1975. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pink Flamingos on Lake Tuzla

  Reblogged from perkingthepansies.com: Some areas of the Bodrum Peninsular have miraculously avoided the triumphant march of the little white boxes up hill and... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pink Flamingos on Lake Tuzla

  Some areas of the Bodrum Peninsular have miraculously avoided the triumphant march of the little white boxes up hill and down dale. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s a Wrap

  

  After the Hump’s disastrous showing at the farcical Caucasian Eurovision circus, we awoke to a thump at the door to match the thumping in my hung-over head. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Eurovision 2012

  

  The campest cabaret has come to town. This year, the good burghers of Baku are proud hosts to the financially crippling annual Eurovision Song-fest. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The P-Day Landings

  We took time out from our packing, sorting and chucking (how did we manage to accumulate such a vast collection of crap in just four short years? Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bodrum Past

  Some Bodrum Belles of our acquaintance have been living hereabouts for a couple of decades (or more). They tell of cold water flats, power supplied on a wing an... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Time Out, Istanbul Top Billing

  

  I’ve never had much difficulty finding something to say. In fact, sometimes Liam would rather I kept it buttoned once in a while. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Locked Up and Knocked Up

  

  Are you an expat who started a company to do the business in Turkey? Do you have a website? If not, you’d better get one sharpish and register it with the... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 EXPAT

• Chirpy Chirpy Cheap Cheap

  

  As we munched on our hearty treat at the Yeni Bodrum Ocakbaşı, we gazed across at the Istanköy Hotel. I felt a shudder down my spine. Back in 2008, a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Food, Inglorious Food

  

  Bussed in boys have bumped up Bodrum’s population and hustle season is in full swing. The cheap youths in cheap shirts have such impossibly thin waists; you... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Donna Summer’s Last Dance

  

  Donna Summer, the original disco diva, died yesterday from cancer. She was only 63. I bopped to her tunes during the decadent days of my misspent youth. For... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Busty Babes and Hairy Marys

  

  You may have noticed (well, it’s bleedin’ obvious) that I’m toying with ads on Perking the Pansies in the hope it might toss a few coppers into the family... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rainbow Balls

  

  The marching season will soon be upon us. I’m not referring to the archaic and socially corrosive pipe and drum marches in Northern Ireland. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Whinging Brits

  

  While April showers in Blighty were supplemented by an artic snap, I basked in glorious spring warmth. Liam had returned home to deal with family affairs and I... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2012 DIARIES

• The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

  Let’s face it, not many people can claim to live on the same street as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. No trip to Bodrum is complete without a... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jack the Hobbling Goblin

  

  I’ve had an MOT at a local private hospital five minutes walk from the house. I thought it would be wise before re-entering the well-meaning but labyrinthine... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Obama Endorses Gay Marriage

  

  Whether we like it or not, what the President of the United States says matters and resonates across the globe. After sitting on the fence for years and... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 CURRENT, DIARIES, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, MARRIAGE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Road Nonsense

  

  There’s been a fun discussion on Adventures in Ankara following a post about car parking in Turkey. I’ve written before about the sheer insanity of driving in... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Bloggers’ Convention

  

  Sarah from Was Constantinople recently attended a unique bloggers’ coffee shop convention in Istanbul featuring some of the most talented writers in the Turkey... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION