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<\/a>Breakfast I.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Breakfast II.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Breakfast: overhead view.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Olives.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Breakfast in the shade, morning sun warming the landscape.<\/p><\/div>\n
What can I say about the dogs that has not been said already? They continue to be loyal, selfless, deeply lazy animals. The most recent arrival is still looking for a definite name, by the way. Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Fluffy (AKA Fluffer, AKA Honey, AKA Honeybunny, AKA Lucky, AKA Lion) in\u00a0 the garden. Note the\u00a0 look that says “Am I allowed to be lying here? Is he going to yell at me?”<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Zeli? being beautiful. “This is my pile of sand, how dare you make plaster out of it?”<\/p><\/div>\n
In between breakfast photos we have actually done some work. Plaster is going onto the walls of rooms three and four, inside and out. Most importantly, the west wall of room three, the one facing the pool, has had its final coat of plaster so the pool area is looking much less like a construction site.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Plaster progress.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Pool pavilion tiled.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Pool area progress.<\/p><\/div>\n
The gardens are looking great, and as usual there’s almost nothing to do except to add water sometimes.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sunflower.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Garden gone wilder.<\/p><\/div>\n
And we’ve had a few more guests. Thanks, people\u00a0\u2014 you know who you are. Guests are doubly welcome as they provide an excuse for us to do something other than the usual construction work. So here’s one photo of further explorations at Magnesia (not sure what this building is, possibly warehouses down by the ancient harbour). Plus a gratuitous kitchen photo showing that sometimes we branch out beyond Turkish food.<\/p>\n