Well I can now return to my blog without bother so that is exactly what I am doing and going straight in with some photos with updates on the garden and the house. (I moved into my new house on 6th January, for the record)
On the day I decided to ask Mustafa to remove all the oleander sticks, I had a bit of a surprise...
and now this is the stage it is at! The key message is: never give up!!!
I finally went round the whole garden with my camera to give you an idea of what it is looking like now-haven't finished planting things but a lot of the plants you will see below were only planted a month before the photos - amazing growth. And on the morning I left for home the hibiscus flower had opened! Also a few pics of the house (with the well-travelled Lizard), the guard house and his kitchen.