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Elsa Peters
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1st December....

White rabbits....with the snow forecast for UK they probably will be.....just in time for me to pick up the slush...

What a long day it has been after staying up until all hours trying to sort out this computer or mine.  Seems to be alright currently so I won't curse it too much in case it's listening.

Well I nearly frightened the life out of the builders today.  Left hand drive, manual, a gear stick on the wrong side and no door for me to rest my right elbow on.  I now have to know the width of the vehicle instead of driving in the gutter.  It was quite scarey tonight.  There appears to be an intermittent fault on the lighting circuit and everything, repeat everything went black for a few seconds so I pressed everything in site and alls well that ends well.  

There are tiles on my roof and I have the photos to prove it but the camera needs charging. I'll post tomorrow.  I kept to my word and got rid of seven wheelbarrow loads of the rubbish from the hedge by the new fence to the dump and all that I am left with is the rubbish on my side.  I am gong to see the local Cmet, show him the beautiful panorama and then point out the rubbish heap.  We need a rubbish bin in the village.  I uncovered a very old rambling rose this afternoon so am drasticaly pruning it and running it over the new fence a) to hide the nails and b) so that there will be something to support the fence when the planks really begin to rot.

Anyway....shower time and I believe it's hairwash time since I had one of the biggest bonfires today in my new outside petchka.  LN
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Wednesday 2nd December

News from the garage, the beast is recouperating as is the wife of the garage owner having just given birth to a 7lb 6oz new baby boss as the rest of the garage have named him.  As for vehicles I think I might be the owner of a Clio who has now been renamed 'Beauty' since I suppose it has to be Beauty and the Beast.  Herbert was fine today and dined out on chicken bones as is the rule in Bulgaria...now I am saying oh you never give dogs chicken because the bones split but obviously Bulgarian chickens' bones are stronger that UK chicken bones.....

So today we were up on the roof of the second house removing the tiles so that we have enough to finish the first house.  Stara Mush was directing operations and even replaced the ladder for me when all the others had gone off to find lunch.  It is rather a sad sight or sad site which ever way you want to look at it but I'm assured that it won't take too long to fix (gore dol) or thereabouts.  The double glazing salesman came round today at my reqest and kept saying what a beautiful house it is.  I suppose from the road it just looks like a house but when you get into the garden, see the windows and views...now you are talking.  Let's see what the quote looks like at 10.00 tomorrow morning.

Sorry no pickies...my internet connection is not strong enough...maybe tomorrow....and now I am going to wash my hair and condition it with Green Tea hair mask for 'Dry and Exhausted Hair'.  Not sure whether to drink it, eat it or spread it on liberally and wait until I feel fully refreshed to rinse it off again.  But we'll give it a try and at 2BGN it will be worth it....LN
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Wednesday pickies...my internet connection has suddenly gained strength before I tried the Green Tea Mask....



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Friday 4th December

Bl...internet.  This is the third attempt to load this page so I'll be quick.  Super day, loads of work done, raining but the men occupied themselves with windows, tiles and channel for toilet....loading the pickies quick before it fades again..LN

Angela M....your holiday is getting nearer with a loo and shower and I just noticed this on the other wall...is this an omen?



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Friday 4th December

It's been another good day and I decided to go down and pick up the beast and give beauty a rest but then decided against it calculating the diesel for the rest of the week....the beauty takes the biscuit and the cheese.

The roof is almost complete and I decided to add a few more planks to my fence but then looked at the open well and thought I should do something about it and so I did.  It is now wood covered but unfortunately by the time I had finished, fed the boys some more coffee it was really too late to record the afternoon's work.  Tomorrow, tomorrow....It just means that any of the grandchildren will not fall down it and it is purely precautionary.  Stara Mush might find a way in but there again, he has his own.

Well I have already started my entertainment's diary for when I return to the UK and it's all set for T-Mobile thrash on the 22nd.  The old gang together and although I am the oldest of the gang, what a team we make...

Well I'm going to eat properly tonight and the builders are going to phone to see if they want to work tomorrow.  It is threatening rain so they might manage a day off if that is the case.  I await a telephone call at 7.30 in the morning and if it is to say that they can't make it, I role over and have a day off myself.....Good night, LN and updates tomorrow....
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Saturday 5th December

Beautiful day until the sun went behind the clouds and yes the guys wanted to work so I was in the car at 7.30 this morning.  I almost have a roof.  I just have to buy 8 meters of the capping root slates which will be attached tomorrow and we are there....I promise to take pictures from all angles as proof.

Tonight off with Richard for a meal at our local restaurant and I have pre-ordered grilled Carp.  I love it.  He is off to Istanbul tomorrow and then going on to Thailand so it is veritably the last suppler.  Must dash...I have fifteen minutes to get ready and that includes a shower...Lega Nosht.....
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Monday 7th December

Another warm day and lots of work has been done.  I now have a chimney and an extended downstairs loo so that we can open and shut the door without banging knees.  It was also to get the petchka chimney in place since the timber in the roof was just in the way.

Today we also managed to concrete one of the floors, well, half concrete, the light got the better of us but there is always tomorrow.  Pictures will be downloaded tomorrow when the chimney has its 'chapka' (hat on) which is being maestered as we speak by one of the maesters.

Short and sweet, my internet connection is playing up, well it's more like my laptop is playing up....lecka nosht....
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Tuesday 8th December

Still not sorted out my internet so definately even shorter with the promise of the results of tomorrow's photoshoot.  My chimney now has a hat fashioned out of roofing tiles and the final capping tile has been attached and cemented in place.  Not sure if we have to have a ceremony but I'll take along a bottle of Fanta tomorrow I don't want anyone falling off the roof.  They have a few more floors to concrete yet..

As I said, short and sweet.  Lecka nosht....
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Wednesday

I now have a new hall floor and a chimney that goes all through the house including the downstairs loo.  Things they are a changing....short and sweet....internet is a bummer....

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Hi mummy..... You seem to be getting along 'just fine and dandy' as Dolly Parton would say! Not long til you are home and I CAN'T WAIT to see you.

I'm hoping that you and Dad are free to come over for Christmas lunch this year. Rob's Mum and Dad are coming to stay as Nanna passed away at the end of November and we thought they could do with the distraction. Don't worry, I won't be cooking, I will be getting fizzy woo on Poinsettia cocktails...... and I'm definately not allowed anywhere the Mushy peas anyway......

Moon and Back,
Princess xxxxxxxxxxx  

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