November 8th - simple pleasures

[Gordonb]

One of the many things I am enjoying about living here in Turkey is that this morning I did 2 loads of laundry and hung them out on the washing line - by about 3pm everything was dry and sun-toasted and had that wonderful scent of air-dried laundry. 

As I alluded to in the heading "simple pleasures". 

I am sure that before long the day will come when I won't be able to dry laundry outside but until then this "simple pleasures" makes me very happy.

It also makes me happy that I am away from the madness of the UK political scene (and the US scene too!)

One thing that does NOT make me happy is that I don't seem to be able to get the new Netflix season of "House of Cards"; Rey is watching it at home in London 😢. 

[KathyB]

My HOA doesn't allow clotheslines outdoors.  I tried hanging one across my laundry room from corner to corner, but it was more trouble than it was worth.

[Chris L]

@Gordonb - Do they have Netflix in Turkey? Or some equivalent of Netflix? It not, how can life be worth living? 

[Gordonb]

@Gordonb - Do they have Netflix in Turkey? Or some equivalent of Netflix? It not, how can life be worth living?  

They do and we do so now that it's getting cooler in the evenings we can "Netflix & chill"  . As I said earlier I'm not getting the new House of Cards although Rey is in London.  I've been talking to an internet/tv provider locally and he promises that within the next few days he'll be able to set me up with an  all-singing-and-dancing package which will provide live BBC and other uk tv stations plus assorted film channels. I'll believe it when I see it!

I did get series 1 and 2 of The Good Place but sadly series 3 hasn't yet made it to Turkey.

One good thing about having limited tv watching opportunities is that I am reading much more, playing Words with Friends, walking Pepe the dog and going to bed at sensible times. I don't miss the trash I used to watch and I will need to be careful when we do get better tv that I don't fall back into the old ways ...

[DiveMilw]

"The Good Place" season 3 was available in Australia on Netflix but is not here in the USA.  Hulu has season 3 so I'm not being deprived.  It was wonderful (and a bit compelling) watching season 3 in Australia because 

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they all move to Sydney.  It really made me feel like I was part of the gang.  LOL