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H1N1 Strikes Anywhere
When you’re four years old, have the crazy little illness that’s got people running around like chickens with their heads chopped off, and your mumma is trying like anything to keep you entertained at home, away from all the people you might infect, anything can happen. Take the termination of our game of hide n’ seek today, for example:

On Absence and Betrayal in Istanbul
My cousin C just left us after a wonderful, ten day, unexpected visit.   It was the longest stretch of time I’ve ever spent with my cousin and may, in fact, have amounted to more cumulative time spent with her than I’d had with her to this point. EcoKid adores C and

We’re Going Gluten-Free and Casein-Free!
An update on my mail post: Still no mail delivery but I’ve discovered that a friend on campus is having the very same problem. Also, a friend with a Turkish partner who has “connections” is doing what he can to help me out. So hope remains that we might eventually see our missing stuff. “We” is a bit of a mis-statement.  EcoBabe is going GFCF.  We are implementing the change.

On The Frustrations of Dealing With The PTT
The PTT is Turkey’s mail provider.  Rather, it is Turkey’s supposed mail provider.  But we are not being provided with our mail. We haven’t received a  package since September 30th.  There are packages that have been en route to us since late August that haven’t arrived.  In total, we are waiting on 9 packages that are between 6 weeks and 2 months late in arriving.  This includes birthday gifts for EcoKid.  Birthday gifts for me. It’s really, really frustrating.  We’ve contacted the post office.  They claim to have nothing.  But the packages are coming from four different countries; it seems highly unlikely that all nin

A Holiday Haiku
Family, friends, laughs Covent Garden, cobbled walks Farewell Londontown!