COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

A few more postcards from me, this time from Hierapolis / Pamukkale.
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Hierapolis was considered a sacred city in the Antiquity. It has a vast necropolis in the north. Variety of architectural styles of the tombs suggest that the dead were brought here from various other areas for burial.

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This has to be one of the most beautiful burial places in the world: A tomb standing on a travertine.

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The city gate built during Byzantium. Behind it is 900-meter-long Frontius street, once with shops and basins for washing.

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Thermal water from underground made its way throughout the city along natural canals, these two ending in a thermal lake.

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The site of Plutonium, an alleged entrance to the underworld. Poisonous fumes and carbon dioxide from the underground to this day kill any bird flying into it.

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The magnificent Hierapolis theater towering over the city. Only the first of three levels of the stage have been restored.

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Dionysus and Pan - possibly my favourite piece in the museum, housed inside a relatively well-preserved Hierapolis Bath.

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This isn't snow. This is calcium carbonate, which gives Pamukkale its Turkish name - "the Cotton Castle". Most of these terraces were overflowing with thermal waters at one time. Today, there are a few natural pools at the top, open to the public.

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All in all, this is the ancient city I would want to live in. Provided I was not a slave. Or a woman.

Wow beautiful!

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning everyone
Looks like I have a road test for my job tomorrow. Good luck to me

Definitely - good luck to you!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Tidgys Dad said


Good evening Adam,

yes I was peeking around but have no time to answer.
Now work is all done and over and out `till next tuesday !
Much time for me to sleep, to eat, to play with my pets, feed the cats, dogs and chicken, soak the torts and talk silly things in the CDR.

Yaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy your free time, my friend.

 

[Lyn W]

UPDATE.
Tidgy not eating.
Day 5
Can't understand this, even when she was at death's door when i rescued her, she ate a bit on day four.
Goodness.

Come on Tidgy!
Hope she finds her appetite soon - is she drinking?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Those rules will be OK for Adam - how is Icicle expected to behave?

Ahem.

 

[Bee62]

Tidgys Dad said
[QUOTEYaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy your free time, my friend. ][/QUOTE]

Thank you !

 

[Lyn W]

Goodness indeed
Is it every winter, or are our torts giving us extra hard time this winter?
I'm thinking of Lola (@Lyn W), Oli (@Gillian Moore) and now Tidgy...

Lola is eating quite well again now on most days but there is still the occasional day when he doesn't leave his hide until I pull him out for a warm soak.
He only poops when I put him in his new big bath which fits in my own bath otherwise he doesn't go for weeks!

 

[Lyn W]

Tidgy has just eaten half a dozen bites of Zoo Med Forest Tortoise food, not exactly right for her, but it's something.

Thank goodness she's eating something though!
Well done Tidgy!

 

[Bee62]

Hello Adam,

what kinds of food or salad do you offer Tidgy ?

 

[Moozillion]

I think she's too busy being upset herself and, in consequence , upsetting wifey and me.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Come on Tidgy!
Hope she finds her appetite soon - is she drinking?

Yes, drinking and excreting fine,energetic and curious , just bored of her food I think.
Good evening, Lyn.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Lola is eating quite well again now on most days but there is still the occasional day when he doesn't leave his hide until I pull him out for a warm soak.
He only poops when I put him in his new big bath which fits in my own bath otherwise he doesn't go for weeks!

Love to Lola.

 

[Lyn W]

Hello everyone!
How are you all this afternoon/evening/tonight?
I'm OK looking forward to the weekend then only 2 weeks until half term!!
I am going to train for sailing on a yacht at the end of the holiday, so that we can take a group of children on the experience of a lifetime - and maybe make some walk the plank

 

[Lyn W]

Love to Lola.

Hi Adam .......and love back to Tidgy - glad she is making an effort to eat something!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello Adam,

what kinds of food or salad do you offer Tidgy ?

This time of year it's anything I can get hold of, really, lettuce, prickly pear pads, turnip tops, chicory, her dried foods, and a little spinach and sprouts.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello everyone!
How are you all this afternoon/evening/tonight?
I'm OK looking forward to the weekend then only 2 weeks until half term!!
I am going to train for sailing on a yacht at the end of the holiday, so that we can take a group of children on the experience of a lifetime - and maybe make some walk the plank
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Great fun!
I love yachting and particularly falling overboard.
Must try out the plank bit.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

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If you you shaved it, this would look much like her, yes.

 

[Lyn W]

Great fun!
I love yachting and particularly falling overboard.
Must try out the plank bit.

I've only been sailing in a little topper on a lake in Milton Keynes before.
This is a 72 footer that's been round the world twice!
I'm hoping I don't end up overboard!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I've only been sailing in a little topper on a lake in Milton Keynes before.
This is a 72 footer that's been round the world twice!
I'm hoping I don't end up overboard!!

It says something like "Challenge Whales" on the side.
Don't do that, it's cruel and Moby **** will win.

 

[Lyn W]

It says something like "Challenge Whales" on the side.
Don't do that, it's cruel and Moby **** will win.

OK don't go harpoon on about it!