Day starts windy but sunny, and warm enough to sit out on the patio at early coffee time. Most flowering shrubs are in winter mode - still some flowers but somewhat short of bouquet quality. The buddleia is starting to produce delicate yellow lilac type blossoms, though if last spring is anything to go by each branch will stubbornly refuse to provide new blooms until the flowers on the next one are thoroughly disreputable.
Horrifying story about the wild donkeys on the Karpaz peninsula. There is a population of about a thousand wild donkeys living on the Karpaz peninsula in the northeast of the country.They’re under the protection of the Turkish Cypriot government and free to wander in herds over an area of three hundred square kilometres. Some unknown person or persons has shot fourteen of them at close range. The whole country from the president on down is appalled and police are investigating. Meanwhile the Bar Association, Golden Paws, and the Cyprus Animal Rights Association have laid black wreaths at parliament.
And a Canadian story in today’s Cyprus Mail. The Delta plane crash at Pearson Airport. Compelling story dramatic enough for any paper, although the photo they went with confusing rather than dramatic. Of course professional photographers not on the tarmac at the ready. The Toronto Star published a clear shot of the upside down plane and, unusually, credited a man who had posted it on Facebook.
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