"A little bit of Turkish is a dangerous thing! Eric Morecombe famously said -- when told by Andre Previn that he was playing the wrong notes -- “I am playing the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.” Let me start at the beginning. I have a dog, Lucy. You might have seen her around. White with brown patches, matches my curtains (that’s why I chose her), big feet, nice eyes. She’s very clever, a bit naughty, with a slight tendency to bark at passing folk. She likes to sit outside my gate and see off marauding cars, scooters, etc. She means well and wouldn’t hurt a fly really, but I have had to occasionally extract visitors from bushes and behind trees. That’s why when my neighbor called to me and said “Lucy,” I assumed the worst. I know a bit of Turkish -- I discovered early on that “hiyar” means small cucumber and is not to be said to boat captains and that you say “hayir” to mean “No” -- so I get by."
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