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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Tuesday, January 17/2017

Make a small jar of lemon curd in the morning with one of Bill's enormous fresh lemons. Involves translating UK recipe from grams to cups (for the sugar and butter) and from ml to TB (for the lemon juice. Then, assuming our dessert spoons to be approximately 2 teaspoons and knowing there to be 12 teaspoons to a quarter cup....Not finished yet - I only want to make a third of the recipe. Write down the final calculations before beginning. Fortunately - for this purpose at least - an egg is an egg is an egg. Results thoroughly justify efforts.

In today's Cyprus Mail: The number of visitors [specifically tourists] rose 20 per cent last year, to a record 3,186,53, with arrivals from all major markets rising at a double-digit rate, the statistical. Our question always is how do they know. Not everyone carrying a non-Cypriot passport is a visitor. Many are permanent residents, such as the British ex-pats. Others may be business people residing on a temporary basis. Even those here for short term business are not technically tourists. Suspect most Cypriot statistics of being opportunistic.