Reply to Mikey B

No I've got two windows and one door from the lounge to do.....first though I have to get the men back out of the fields....that's women for you and this weekend my little builder has five mates over shearing sheep and all
wearing wellies.

Kitchen still waiting for the estimate....stairs...now I shall miss that ladder...

Big hugs
xx

Saturday night 15th May

What a day...messing around with websites...trying to get something built using a program that is there for the
taking but I'm not sure what I'm doing...please bear with me...at least it's working.  LN...

Tuesday 18th May

You might well ask where I have been to...Sunday I was making a bed which I succeeded in completing but my little Clio faded as soon as I got back to the hotel.  It could have been worse....it could have decided that it didn't want to play at the house and then I would have been stranded.  As it was I could still manage a couple of beers and some chicken wings while the mechanic was called at 10.00 on a Sunday night from the restaurant and not by me, identified that it was a breakshoe that was the problem and monday morning he was round with his tools, removed the shoe so that I could get it down to the garage and it was fixed by lunchtime yesterday.  Later I decided to have lunch at the restaurant, I went with the mother from the restaurant on a visit to the school where she teaches dressmaking and design and then we did a tour of the local shop.  Some things evade me when I am searching for them and now I know where to get Roman blinds, curtain poles (anglia) style and all sorts that you would actually need.  They come and measure and fit...not quite like B & Q.

Today I'm at the house with a new workman and my maestor.  The wall is down into the stairwell and we have been shopping and I have all the materials for the new columns in the lounge and that is being done tomorrow and the windows get fitted on Friday.  The kitchen comes in two weeks after having a 'quote' which as I said doesn't happen here.  It's normal a shrug if you ask how much and how long it will take instigates a shrug and a shake of the head.  This quote came in at a very good price so ten days and I will have a kitchen....good stuff

Tuesday 18th continued

Now this afternoon I had four guests but it is not the way to knock and wait....they were in and looking to see what had changed since the last time they were here.  They don't live in the village but in Turkey and they are here for ten days so I guess I shall be seeing more of them.  So much for my afternoon nap.  I had just told the men that  was going to go on the sun lounger with a book for an hour or so when he shouted 'gosti' 'guests and that's when the book went by the way and I struggled with Bulgarian and a few words of Turkish thrown in for what seemed like ages....then the son came and we had a few words of German to boot.  Give it a go...let's see what we can manage to communicate in....that's BG for you....now home James and don't spare the horses.

Wednesday 19th May

Big festival day in Djebel today and where were the men...at the festival...and where was I...lying on my sunbed in the garden and listening to nature.  At one point in my garden I had a cuckoo. a woodpecker, a coaltit with an amazing little song and then the stork flew over towards the lake.  Where was the camera????  In the house.  Ahh well, next time and there will be because there seems to be a good supply of frogs.

Popped over to see my mate in Samodiva today and he's having a shot at making cherry brandy with local cherries.  Now mine are still white but I my house is higher than his so I better keep a watch out for mine turning before the birds notice.  I'm going for the cherry vodka and I noticed that I have loads of little green damsons that appear to be getting bigger every day and they are lined up for damson gin and I suppose I could make some jam...woman cannot live by alcohol alone!!  Of course it's only for the guests.

It went really cold later on so I'm thinking I better reinstall the woodburner.  It's sitting in the hall when we thought we wouldn't need it again but now that I have a huge pile of logs....I think it will be going tomorrow if only to dry out more of the house.  Stone houses are like that...once warm they stay that way but it's getting them warm that's the problem especially when the rain sets in like it did today....not good.  LN...

Thursday 20th May

Last night I thought we were under attack in the hotel.  We had military planes flying over for two days and loud bangs last night until I left the room in my pyjamas and saw that there was a firework display in the town.  This was the end of the 'holiday' celebrations.  There were a few celebrations in the hotel going on.  One noisy room kept going until 5.00 this morning so at least I got to read my book but I could have willingly knocked on the door if I had had enough of the Turkish language to make the visit worthwhile....

Now my last wall is going....and my final windows come tomorrow so I'm told.  I think it's going to be Saturday or Monday.  Now they're good but I have the distinct impression that they have over estimated making the concrete framework, shuttering and filling them up with concrete ready for the shuttering to be removed so the windows can be fittd.  Let's wait and see.

well........?? Is the last window in? Thank you for waking the Baby Frog this morning, same time Monday?!!

Love you and hope your last window did not become a 'pane'........

Love you,

Princessxxxxxx

Evening Princess

No problem, Monday is OK with me....I have all my windows in and my fly screens so I asked them to make me one for the front door....seems silly fitting them to the windows and not the door....dohhhh.

Lovely to talk to you and what time did the sleepy part of you wake up this morning...
Lots of love to you all and enjoy Susie ...

XXX to the moon and back....

Saturday 22d May

Well I have so much space that I can't decide what to make first.  I need a wardrobe of sorts, got the coathangers and nowhere to hang em, need a shoe rack so they don't get kicked around and a whole lounge with nothing in it except tiles on the floor and large windows....life's good.  Washing machine running, coffee in the cup and Edith Piaf warbling in the background.  Now I'm wondering what the men make of her .  Yes it's Saturday but they decided that they wanted to get on with the job so who am I to stop them.

Pickies of the latest instalment to follow.....I'll let you know how the rest of the day goes later.

Sunday 23rd May

I have just added ten tomato plants to my collection and have learnt that you do not water them directly but in a trench either side preferably with some animal poo in the trench.  This is not for the feint hearted...so I think I'll leave the poo out of it and let the soil do its own.  I have also acquired a bucket of 'potatoes' and my instructions are to cover up the potato with soil when the greenery shows its head and then wait until June /July when it dies back and I am assured I shall have a bucket of potatoes.  Let's wait and see if I manage to kill them.

I called in and collected all my bags from Pepe's house and I wonder why I brought out half the things that I did from England.  It's not like there are not any.....shops ....here but who can live without and Acacia spice rack from Cargo...probably I could have done.  

Beautiful day, sheep in the meadow and no cows in my garden to date.  I had reinforced the hedge but one little, or not so little blighter looked like the cow that jumped over the moon as he ran from the garden with me chasing him with my 'crava' stick.  I didn't know they could jump that high...  

Looks like I'm moving in towards the middle of the week...my continental quilts are airing after being in storage for the best part of a year....last thing is a septic tank so that we don't have septic garden.