Paphos Life

Same here in larnaca, cleaning the electricity lines,
we have a big tower in the field near to us, and its a bit scary seeing how close they get to the tower to spray clean the lines.

Lidl were selling ice cream making machines for about 20 euros last year. You can make your own then, choosing your own ingredients. Quite easy to do and problem solved


A friend of ours has a holiday home, here, and has just bought an icecream machine , its a ninja paid about 300 pound for it ...

Dominic wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2026 7:23 pm Adding wheat struck me as being particularly daft, given the market for gluten-free food.

This one finished me off

: Ingredients such as cellulose gum (derived from wood pulp)

Wheras this is the ingredients of Walls Vanilla Ice Cream:

reconstituted skimmed milk, water, glucose syrup, sugar, coconut fat, fructose, whey solids, stabilizers (guar gum, locust bean gum, tara gum, carrageenan), emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), flavorings, and colors ...

We used to buy this , then I wondered why it was so cheap? A large tub for about 5or 6 euro, so I had a little look on line,

From google
What are the ingredients in bourbon vanilla ice cream?
SKIM MILK, WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, WHEY, GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE SYRUP, COCONUT OIL, PALM OIL, COCOA1 (PROCESSED WITH ...

Dominic wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 1:07 pm I had a tough time explaining the concept of clocks moving to my Malaysian roommates at University. They thought I was winding them up.

Your lucky they didnt , clock you one

Jumbos have them

From the local press.

In a move of the utmost national and geostrategic importance, Athens is deploying forces in the region. By an official decision of the Governmental National Security Council (KYSEA), Greece is sending a total of two Navy frigates to Cyprus. Among them is the ultra-modern ...

Ive had panels for a couple of years now, and from day one my bills have gone down from two to three hundred to twenty to thirty euro, that will do for me.

Chichi wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 1:07 pm Wayne the Will Man will charge less than a solicitor, highly recommended.

What qualifications does he have ?

If it is with the courts you are safer, if it is with the lawyer and you outlive him or his buisness then you have a problem and even if all is well and he is still in buisness your executor will have to attend the courts.

Also you would need to trust the lawyer if he keeps the will as if he has ...

I'm asking for an elderly friend,

Have any of you good people made a will by downloading the forms off the internet? Any recomendations please.

One thing I read on the Cyprus & East Med Sea Life Facebook group was that it was dead and full of live crabs, so they were banging and throwing it to get the crabs out of it before they put it in their vehicle to remove it.

I have no idea if this is true or not (and if it is, why hasn't it been ...

Dominic wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:01 am It would be handy if you included a link to the video.

That is the one Trev posted, in my opinion the way they where holding it and throwing it suggest the turtle was alive.

From what I read it was already dead, and they were just playing with the corpse. So at least the turtle didn't actually suffer at their hands. They certainly deserve to be punished though.


Looking at the video , the men pull back a couple of times when they went to pick it up, as thou the ...

No words to describe what happened to that poor turtle, I hope those who carried out this vile act get the full force of the law thrown at them.

Thank you Dominic and a happy and more importantly a healthy new year to you
your love ones and to all the forum members.

Jumbos is a God sent for familys especially this time of year

These boys and girls do a great job, if possible slip them a fiver tip or what ever you can afford , they deserve it.