Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Introduce Yourself => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: CocknioDicanio on June 18, 2010, 12:53:23 PM
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Good afternoon Ladies & Gents
My real name is Mike but my friends call me CocknioDiCanio. OK that's a complete lie.....I don't have any friends.
I'm 54, I've been married for 30 years and I have 3 children (one of each - a boy a girl and a hairdresser). I'm sorry I can't help myself. I have three children a boy aged 25, a girl aged 21 and another boy aged 16.
I live and work in Brentwood, Essex.
I love football, food and writing for fun/pleasure.
I'm the bar manager for our local cricket club (Herongate & Ingrave CC).
I've been a qualified FA Coach for 29 years.
My wife's cousin has an apartment in Günlükbaşi and my wife, two youngest children and I are coming for 11 days from the 15th of July.
You'll be able to spot us easily enough when we are in the area. My daughter is a single blue-eyed blonde, my son is tall and skinny and apparently I have the muscliest legs in the UK :D
See you all soon
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Only kidding, welcome to CBF Mike, I think you'll probably fit right in :D
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Hello and welcome to the forum Mike, bet my legs are better than yours (could not spell musclier) COYis
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Welcome Mike - unfortunately I reckon my calves are bigger than both yours and COYis - LOL:D
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Welcome to the forum Mike, hope you enjoy! Im just down the road from you in Harlow :)
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Hi and a warm welcome to the Forum......bit concerned about your daughter....does she have one single eye in the middle?:D :)
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hi mike and a very warm welcome
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welcome to CBF Mike :) there are lots of comedians on here so you'll be right at home ;)
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welcome to the forum Mike i was born in Brentwood and lived there for 23 years along the ingrave road
I played football for herongate many years ago and Brentwood Town. Small world mate. We also have a place in Calis.
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Welcome to the forum, I too am an Essex person, although, I have lived here for some years.
With the description you have given, I am sure we will spot you easily, I certainly hope so.
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Originally posted by BM06
Hello and welcome to the forum Mike, bet my legs are better than yours (could not spell musclier) COYis
Is this a challenge to a Calf-Off I see before me ? Name the bar and the time :D
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Originally posted by tribalelder
Hi and a warm welcome to the Forum......bit concerned about your daughter....does she have one single eye in the middle?:D :)
Yes but it really is a beautiful blue and she has three ears so things worked out ok really
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Originally posted by hydeaway
welcome to the forum Mike i was born in Brentwood and lived there for 23 years along the ingrave road
I played football for herongate many years ago and Brentwood Town. Small world mate. We also have a place in Calis.
We'll have to meet up and have an Efes or two and I can tell you all the big news and gossip from Herongate from the past several years. As soon as that 15 seconds has elapsed you can let me know what you want to talk about
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Originally posted by nuttybird
Welcome to the forum Mike, hope you enjoy! Im just down the road from you in Harlow :)
Thanks for the welcome :) Are you living in Calis now or just there for the summer months ?
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Many thanks to everybody for the welcomes and the funny comments. I'm sure myself and my family are going to have a brilliant time in Calis and the Dalaman area. I can't wait to get there !
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Hi mike, Still live in Harlow, but holiday in Hisaronu/Olu Deniz and this year popping to Calis as ive never been! :)
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Calis "twinned" with Harlow ? Now there's an opportunity Keith ! Go for it !
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ha ha very true scorcher! :)
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Originally posted by nuttybird
Hi mike, Still live in Harlow, but holiday in Hisaronu/Olu Deniz and this year popping to Calis as ive never been! :)
We're there from the 15th until the 25th of July so maybe we'll bump into each other if our dates coincide.
How is Harlow these days ? I know the old town is really nice but the new town used to have an awful reputation.
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aw, my first ever flat was in Harlow ! overlooking the golf course. memories, sweet memories, that was before I met mr Pookie and got dragged off to Cambridge ! (born and bred in Epping, first job in Brentwood). Well thats my life story. Welcome to the forum Mike. Look forward to seeing those legs ;)
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Originally posted by pookie
aw, my first ever flat was in Harlow ! overlooking the golf course. memories, sweet memories, that was before I met mr Pookie and got dragged off to Cambridge ! (born and bred in Epping, first job in Brentwood). Well thats my life story. Welcome to the forum Mike. Look forward to seeing those legs ;)
Hi Pookie, where did you work in Brentwood ? Ford, Amstrad (now gone I believe) and more recently BT are the biggest employers but there used to be a Thermos site that was demolished to make way for the Sainsbury's superstore.
It is well documented that Brentwood is an anagram of Bored Town and it is a bit sleepy but on the up-side crime is relatively low and the schools are excellent.
Unless there's a freak weather incident when we get to Calis and temperatures drop into the sub zeros I will be wearing shorts for the whole 11 days so you'll have plenty of opportunity to ogle ;)
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lol Mike I think I love you :-\ My first job was long before Amstrad moved to the area :o - but I like your thinking ! used to be an office close to Wilsons corner, a shipping agents. Long gone.
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Really pookie! what a small world :) I know the area well, I grew up in collins Meadow, which is just round the corner from the golf club. The New town is OK Mike, still a bit of a bad rep, but no worse than other areas I dont think, each town has there good and bad places. Must admit it has got worse over the weekends though, so I never go out in harlow anymore, just out after work in the city or Brentwood, epping, Hertford etc. Its a shame because Harlow has so much potential but nothing seems to ever happen!
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Originally posted by pookie
lol Mike I think I love you :-\ My first job was long before Amstrad moved to the area :o - but I like your thinking ! used to be an office close to Wilsons corner, a shipping agents. Long gone.
You make it sound as though I am writing to a 70 year old and you're younger than I am anyway so don't go falling in love with me or I'll be ejected from the board for cradle snatching !
Not sure of the last time you came to Brentwood but Coopers - the big furniture shop - has gone from Wilson's Corner and it's now a "high-end" retail outlet for about six shops selling stuff that I would collectively describe as "twee".
Alongside the retail outlet is a traffic Gyratory system comprising two mini-roundabouts. At least that's what Brentwood Borough Council says. The truth is it's a secret government initiative and it works like this :
UFOs that enter our air-space are sucked into a 5th dimension that was cleverly created by Stephen Hawking, Patrick Moore and the Blue Peter presnteres using sticky back plastic and coat-hangers. Once they're in they are transformed into car shapes and then beamed down to Wilson's Corner. Once there they either sit waiting for a gap for so long that they just rust into dust or - due to the specially staggered roundabouts - they randomly smash into each other and are converted to dust.
To outsiders it's just an incredibly badly designed traffic flow system but they're not fooling me. Please don't ask me how I know about all this, if I tell you I'll have to kill you.
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Originally posted by nuttybird
Really pookie! what a small world :) I know the area well, I grew up in collins Meadow, which is just round the corner from the golf club. The New town is OK Mike, still a bit of a bad rep, but no worse than other areas I dont think, each town has there good and bad places. Must admit it has got worse over the weekends though, so I never go out in harlow anymore, just out after work in the city or Brentwood, epping, Hertford etc. Its a shame because Harlow has so much potential but nothing seems to ever happen!
Glad to see that you view Brentwood as a good place to come for a drink. I joked that it's a Bored Town but, despite all the objections, the High Street has been transformed recently and now there's approximately one pub for each resident ! Where's your favourite watering hole ?
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ohhhh this reminded me - there used to be a fantastic chinese along the Ongar road - on the way to Brentwood. Fantastic - had many a drunken hen night there !! best chinese food for miles around.
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Thats called Joy Fook Pookie, its still there and still a main attraction for birthdays/Hen/Stag parties Lol x
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:o thats it ! many a drunken night on the dance floor there !!! I might have to go and revisit my old haunts one of these days !
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This is quite spooky. I haven't been there for years but it just so happens I'm going to Joy Fook this Friday for a friend's birthday meal
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small world eh ?! best fruity ribs in Essex (Joy Fook's not mine ;):D)
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and then of course, its on to the Epping Forest Country club...... ;) does that mean anything to either of you ?:D
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Originally posted by pookie
small world eh ?! best fruity ribs in Essex (Joy Fook's not mine ;):D)
Fruity ribs eh? I'll see if they're still on the menu and report back to you. I'd bring some out to you but not sure they'd be too fruity by the time I got there after a four hour flight. Ripe maybe !
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Ooooh Epping country club and Atlantis, I loved those two places, although it shut down years ago now, too much fighting and murders! :(