Safely home after almost a week of festive overload, we uncorked a bottle and nested on the sofa to watch ‘Climbed Every Mountain’ on BB2. Liam is rather obsessed with ‘The Sound of Music’ and can recite the entire film note-for-note and word-for-word. It’s on the job description of all gay men of a certain age. To end the season with a flourish, we expected a sugar-coated, feel-good soft focus trip up and down the pristine piste. We got a dirty Alpine avalanche exposing a nation in denial, a dysfunctional family and a bi-polar singing ex-nun who never was. To pour weed killer on the edelweiss, the Von Trapps didn’t climb any mountain or ford any stream to escape the evil clutches of the nasty Nazis. No, they caught the 5.30 express to Italy. The truth, as they say, should never get in the way of a good story. It was the cruelest of blows; I fear Liam will never recover.
Perking the Pansies 
so sad – I’m weeping for lost innocence
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I’m not sure Liam ever had an age of innocence.
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You can`t blame Liam for enjoying it still, afterall he was in it wasn`t he.
He looke so cute in those days as Kurt Von-trap……I should know as Mother Abbess.
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🙂
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Hello Jack,
Sorry for using here.
A belated Merry Christmas and a very happy new year.
Keep well.
Levent
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No need to apologise. Thank you and a happy, hearty and prosperous 2013 to you.
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la la la la la – not reading or listening. Of course she was a lovely nun. I wanted to be her when I was 8!
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Hear no evil! 😉
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There’s something timeless about children needing a mother and a father who is all thumbs when it comes to their care.
You don’t say…I like the original myself.
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Me too. The truth is too disappointing.
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You should erase this experience from your minds with a trip to Salzburg, where you can take a day long Sound of Music tour, have a skip along the same merry lanes 🙂
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It’s either that or long term therapy!
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Very glad to finally make it to your blog Jack : ) look forward to your posts, happy 2013!
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Hi Ozlem. Thanks for popping by. I don’t write much about Turkey these days so I hope I can keep your interest ;-). Your blog is delicious!
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