May is upon us and my thoughts have turned to the summer and what I'll do once the school year has ended and we are free once more.

Usually we summer on the Aegean in Bodrum and each time we return we discover new changes to the place and to the people we know there. Three years ago this garden existed; last year it had been razed to the bare soil and eight apartments (four two storey blocks) been built there. The chickens were still running around, everything else has gone. This year I hope it will have regrown to some extent.

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