Oh eye yes it looks good   Who's a clever girl then!

I meant to ask before...What are you doing in picture 3 of the last lot where you're straddling a wet hole in the snow??  

Oh by the way it won't let me upload a proper avatar as it says I don't have rights, and will only let me choose from some cartoon characters  

It's passed onto the Guru.  She recommends you send it to me in an email and she will upload it.  What was I doing over the open ditch?  Clearing it out so that we could get the water moving off the road and down to the lake.  The dirt road accumulates water big time and we almost need a periscope for the submarine (MGF) to get onto the open road.  It's due for a spin tomorrow.  We are going out to a pig farm for bacon, sausage, eggs, fried bread and chips...healthy lunch egh....tough life...xxxxx

Saturday 28th March

Well what a difference a day makes.....the snow is clinging to the hillside but we were out there in jeans, strappy tshirts and snowboots extending the loo pipes further down the hillside.  There was just a remnant of the snowman from the second coming of winter to remind us of earlier in the week.  Beautiful day and job's a good un....The pipes now sling the bathroom / washing machine /washing up deposits right into the chasm at the bottom of the garden.  We both have the beginnings of a suntan but came in at four, lit the log burner and watched the sun go down.  Today three eagles were riding the thermals, two donkeys were roaming the hillside, frogs were croaking and probably piled on top of each other as they tend to do at this time of year.  We saw our first lizard and one ladybird but to date no calling birds, nor a partridge in the plum tree and we certainly didn't get the five gold rings.  Has spring arrived?  I'll update you tomorrow

Sunday 29th March

Went for a spin in the MGF today.  Weather fair to moderate but the air was cold so we kept the top on.  Off to a pig farm near Haskovo....that doubles up an a B&B run by an English couple.  Suzi convinced them that their current website didn't do them justice so we spent the afternoon, after a couple of bevvies over a brunch of homemade sausages and bacon with eggs and fried bread, trying to come up with a new web name.  They finally settled on 'Making Bacon' which fortunately did not appear in the pornographic section when put into Google browser!!!  Stopped off for a litre and a half of the red stuff on our way home + two litres of beer for when they come over later this week to design the web and spent out the princely sum of 5.20 BGN (roughly 2 to 1).  Tonight there was a stork on the small lake in front of the 'wooden structure'  catching frogs.  (Too far away for good pickies but great with binoculars.)  You could see the arms and legs hanging out and I got the impression that he wouldn't ever take off but suddenly the dogs caught wind of him, raced towards him and he shot into the air.  Big bird...  

Tomorrow sorting out the tax on my two houses in Dushinkovo.  On Friday I paid 21BGN for the year for Gorsko Dulevo and submitted my business tax documents with Suzi's for 3BGN.  Some people seem to pay astronomical prices for these services if you look at other forums but we went with a local and all we had to do was sign in about three million places or that was the way that it seemed.  But all worthwhile to avoid one of the many fines that you can incur....Now it's time for bed said Zebardee and Dougal agreed....Pictures of the stork bird to follow... felt quite a little twitcher and that was without a drink.

Tuesday, 31st March

Well the tax on the two houses was paid up yesterday at the grand cost of 13BGN but, and this was the shock of the day, the council tax was 94BGN for the whole year.  This is partly due to the fact that I have a tarmac road to the houses, a bus shelter outside and rubbish bins emptied regularly...but on reflection, all that for just under £50 a year is not bad at all.  I think I can handle that.  

The temperature was way up this morning and in tshirts we went topless in the MGF.  Went round to the double glazing manufacturer and Suzi ordered her window with door for the lounge / wooden structure to save having to walk round the side of the property.  The man wanted to come round to measure but we had to explain that the hole will fit the window not the other way round and will be provided by our trusted workmen.  We went down to my two houses and immediately drew a couple of locals who offered services as 'experts' and Suzi made the day by allowing one of them to sit in the MGF and that should be the talk of the local for the next few nights.  She did draw the line at him taking it for a spin...much to his chagrin.

Ended the day with a super bonfire getting rid of lots of builders rubbish.  They have one heap and that happens to be where it lands and I spent late afternoon renovating a small wooden table which now looks highly polished and nourished with shoe polish.  I tried to get beeswax today but they don't seem to have it...only bees and wax but not for what I wanted it for.

And as the day/month ended.... over the crackling bonfire I heard the cuckoo and a few minutes later a woodpecker.  

I'm definately turning into a twitcher.....anybody got any tablets???