COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

View from my roof
North-east

Across the medina to the highest part of the mountains.
We are in a mountain river valley, so much higher than it looks from our place near the top of the mountains.
Note the rug hanging over the washing-line.
Put out to air and then beaten before being taken back in.

 

[Moozillion]

FOR SERVING TEA.
Make sure you don't throw away your old record player.
It makes an ideal revolving serving platter for cakes, where diners can pick up a cake as it spins by.
I would recommend 33 rpm for rock cakes and scones, 45rpm for Eccles cakes and Battenburg and 78rpm for danish pastries and croissants.

Good Heavens!!! We'd need catcher's mitts to grab them out of the air as they fly by!!! ...or perhaps tennis racquets to "serve" them to the person sitting across from us!!!

 

[Yvonne G]

View from my roof
South-East
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Here we can see the edge of my neighbours house, be are separated by a narrow alleyway which is jumpable, but no one does.
You can see more clearly part of the older city wall as a thin grey line, above the inner wall, running along the top of the hill.
The tall fort like building is actually an electricity sub-station.
There's also a collared-dove on the TV aerial.

So much greenery. I pictured lots of dry sandy areas.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good Heavens!!! We'd need catcher's mitts to grab them out of the air as they fly by!!! ...or perhaps tennis racquets to "serve" them to the person sitting across from us!!!

But that'd be quite fun, don't you think ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

So much greenery. I pictured lots of dry sandy areas.

No sand up here.
We have two rivers and dozens of mountain streams.
It's quite dry and brown here now, all the grass and dandies are frazzled, but in our short spring, it's a blaze of green and coloured flowers.
I will post in the spring.
Testudo graeca graeca come from valleys like this, nearby, but not our one.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

View from my roof
North-north-east

wifey shouldn't have taken this with me in shot.
My shirt is untucked !
A view over the medina. To the right of my hat you can just see the ancient Merenid Dynasty ruins perched on top of the hill.
I wish they'd ban satellite dishes.

 

[Momof4]

Good morning, Kathy!

Good morning Adam!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

view from my roof
North

Across the centre of the medina.
Just to the right of the right hand pole, just below the skyline you can just aboutsee the Borj Nord (north tower) which is now a weapons museum.
Just to the right of this you can see a mosque minaret sticking just above the skyline. A minaret is more clearly seen to the left side of the photograph. there are 700 mosques in the medina.
The sort of tarpaulin things held down with planks.
The bigger houses hare are Dhars with an open central courtyard with fountain and Riads (with no fountain in the courtyard but a garden instead) many people cover these with clear corrugated plastic to keep the rain and wind out, but come the summer this means they heat up like greenhouses so they are covered to stop the worst of the heat. Though it also blocks the sun, of course.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

View from my roof
North-West

The little window in the white wall just to the right and under the tarp is my laboratory.
Under the tarp is the plastic and then a drop of three floors, past my laboratory and then my apartment to the courtyard below.

 

[johnandjade]

woohoo!! another job here and one in johnston tomorrow... AND hes got more lined up! all £100 jobs

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

View from my roof
North-West a close up

The building with the blue fencing and rooftop garden in the local and very expensive restaurant for tourists where they have belly-dancers, magic acts, chips, souvenir toy camels and other things not found elsewhere in Fes or Morocco (except for camels which do occur , but not in our city, the streets are too narrow)
Beyond this you can see several mosque minarets and then the big hotel, also very expensive, but they're paying for views like mine.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

woohoo!! another job here and one in johnston tomorrow... AND hes got more lined up! all £100 jobs

Most splendid!
Next year you'll be a billionaire!

 

[meech008]

as busy as ever, glad to hear. how is mr ben doing?

same old here

Ben is doing well. He got some discouraging news that his shoulder will apparently never be the same due to so much arthritis from his injury so we're waiting to hear more about that.

 

[Pearly]

I'm feeling sorry for myself. My hand has swelled again

I an keeping up with the antihistamines and now have hydrocortisone cream to use on it too. Fortunately my wedding is normally loose, so it isn't constricting my finger.
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Goodness Linda! Feel better soon! May also try little antiinflammatory to aid the antihistamine. Something like Ibuprophen or Acetaminophen

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

View from my roof
West

Here you can see how narrow our garden is at the back of the house.
Beyond are lots of ancient ruins, no one much lives in the places along the left.
On the horizon, sort of under the satellite dishes, you can perhaps make out the beginning of the modern city, the New Town where I hate to go.
One of the buildings in sight is a McDonalds.
There is a good mile or two of countryside between the two halves of the city, ancient and modern.

 

[Pearly]

View from my roof
North-West a close up
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The building with the blue fencing and rooftop garden in the local and very expensive restaurant for tourists where they have belly-dancers, magic acts, chips, souvenir toy camels and other things not found elsewhere in Fes or Morocco (except for camels which do occur , but not in our city, the streets are too narrow)
Beyond this you can see several mosque minarets and then the big hotel, also very expensive, but they're paying for views like mine.

Love all the pictures Adam! Keep them coming!

 

[Pearly]

Hi Guys, just poking my nosy nose in to say HI to everyone. Gotta run with the kids now. Trying to catch the Forum here and there... not much, but better than nothing at all Wishing everyone a great afternoon this iguana was huge! Def. more then 6' long! Saw him in Miami day bfr yesterday

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Love all the pictures Adam! Keep them coming!

Hello, Cousin Ewa!
Thank you!
That's about it.
Back to Esio Trot now.
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/esio-trot-by-tidgys-dad.159608/

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hi Guys, just poking my nosy nose in to say HI to everyone. Gotta run with the kids now. Trying to catch the Forum here and there... not much, but better than nothing at all Wishing everyone a great afternoonView attachment 214492 this iguana was huge! Def. more then 6' long! Saw him in Miami day bfr yesterday

He is enormous and most stunningly beautiful.
Have fun and speak soon !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

OLDER DRIVERS
Pressing your foot down gently on the pedal on your right will make your car go a tad faster. Forget all the nonsense about suffocating at speeds over 15 mph, this is just a myth.