5.30 Get up, let the dogs out and the cat in. Make a cuppa. It's gotta be Yorkshire Teabags.
6.00 Make a cuppa .Have look at what's been happening in the world during the night on AoL News and the various forums (forii ?)
7.00 Take the dogs for a walk around "the estate" and let the turkeys out of their coup. Make a cuppa.
8.00 Feed the turkeys and ducks. Make a cuppa.
9.00 (Mondays) Take the outgoing post up to Hisaronu and collect the incoming from the Ekizler Market in Kaya.
10.15 Curse and swear, because of the noise that the bloody quad-bikes make when they go through the village
(Tuesdays & Fridays) Go into the markets to get fresh fruit and veg. I don't go near the "tourist" bit of the Tuesday market between Easter and September but in October I go in there looking for bargains.
Call into the Oztoklu Restaurant in the "Every Day Fruit and Veg Market"and spend an hour or so chatting with Rukiye and Rahim and drink several cups of cay. It gives me a chance to learn more Turkish and for them to learn more English.
Call into Gima or Migros for other supplies.
If it's not a market day, I spend time doing odd maintenance jobs around "the estate", chopping wood for the winter, entertaining the dogs, walking through the surrounding forests, winding folks up in the various forums, etc
Afternoons are usually spent doing one or other of the above or out exploring either on foot or in the truck or preparing the evening meal. Or just having a nap.
14.00 Curse and swear, because of the noise that the bloody quad-bikes make when they go through the village again!
As I'm head chef, I spend quite a bit of time preparing meals for that day and also freezing fruit and veg for use over the winter months.
Evenings used to be spent watching Doctor's and Eastenders ( Thank you BBC Prime for the wonderful new schedules. The first real "Comedy Moment" you've had in years) and then perhaps going out for a walk around the village to friends or one of the many eateries in the village for a tea and/or coffee.
At the moment we tend to spend the afternoons just chilling out because it's too hot to work and then doing the odd jobs or going for a walk during the evenings.
We eat out perhaps once or twice a week.