Monday continued

Well the men were being so athletic that I thought they were practicing for Bulgarian entry to the Olympics.  They laughed it off but I suspect.....

Monday continued and yet again

LN tout le monde....I have Eric Clapton playing real loud, enjoying the music and a bottle of the good red.....LG to use the mobile phone, fridge, cooker logo...life's good.....lecka nosht...

Tuesday 29th June

Bit of a dull morning but slept in until 7.00 so it's a good job that I wasn't picking my men up.  Lovely surprise D of S came round with A who has just arrived from the UK with a strange story to tell.  She was unable to board the plane on Saturday as arranged since some half-wit BA passenger had picked up her passport and boarding card from the tray at security despite it being with her belt and smellies.  Now easyJet are brightly coloured boarding cards but no, no passport, no card, no board, luggage on board.  So escorted back through security and heard her name over the PA and off she trotted.....returned but too late so she reorganised her flight for the next day.  I then related how I'd arrived at the airport only last year with my passport in my lilac suade cover only to be told that it was my grandson's and that I wouldn't be going far with that only back to Brighton earlier than planned.  When CJ and myself came back from Gibraltar after a jolly, security had made us take the passports out of the covers so that they could be scanned.  So...that's how it happened.

So out came my workbench and my woodworking tools today and then it started to....RAIN.  The temperature has now dropped to something unacceptable in my books so where's those socks again????  I'm just not used to the cold.

Tuesday continued

Well what a miserable day...it thundered so not able to use the computer so I decided to play with my Nintendo and ended up with challenging Arnold to Scrabble (since he's the only one that I can beat but I suppose everybody can) and playing Germs.  I just couldn't get up that ladder with the workbench and the tools...the get-up-and-go had just got-up-and-gone.  My mobile shop came eventually so now I have bread, eggs and nadanitsa which I am just knocking up a nadanitsa (spicy sausage) risotto.  Just one pan cooking for me but looking at the amount of rice that I put it in looks enough to feed the five thousand.  Why don't I ever get the measure of rice...never have....so I suppose I shall just have to invest in an electronic scale and become more professional about it.  Anyway it's cooked...dessert might be a few stewing cherries with yoghurt...the ones stewing in vodka sound about right....it does say on the label that it has to 'marinade' for approximately 20 days.  Doesn't say anything about the cherries though

Off to eat LN...soya sauce and chopsticks that I've had for 40ish years from the Lotus House in Gibraltar (that's the chopsticks not the soya sauce), I've closed the curtains to make it seem warmer... two woodburners and none connected...must speak to my men sharply...LN

Wednesday 30th June

So today looked coldish so I thought I would be well prepared and start the day off warm.  So my army camouflage trousers were donned along with a fleece jumper, socks and work boots and I have just done an hour tidying the remains of the cherry tree that we pulled down and sawing into logs and yes....I have just come in to change into something a little less insulated.  I'm sweating like that proverbial pig that always seems to get the blame for everything....piggin useless, pig of a day but not allowed to keep pigs in a village so I'll stay with the one I've got.

The plan is to remove the remains of the cherry currently stopping the sheep farmer's dog from getting under my wreck of a house to take a nap while his sheep are chomping in my adjoining field.  Think I shall have to make a door of some sort just to stop the little blighter....well not so little...it's a kangol, built big, originates from Turkey and guards the sheep.  Don't go threatening one of his or he'll have you.

Now down to t-shirt and back to the woodpile with the saw....

Wednesday continued
Had a really good day in the garden today and moved all of the old branches that had been lopped and left.  Tried to get a good bonfire going but it wasn't having it today....probably needs emptying and starting from scratch.  Had a little visitor, a tortoise, that I had disturbed.  My star mush decided to drop rubbish on my garden.  I went out and moved his and other stuff into the lane and he decided to tidy it up and put it in a sheet.  Now I though he wanted to put it on the rubbisd heap just up the road so I went out with my wheel barrow to take it up there.  No,no he wasn't having any of it so he struggled, got it on his back and where did he leave it...in the bus shelter so tomorrow..that's my first job.  Glava ne dobre.....his head isn't good.....(Tortoise pickies tomorrow).

Good news they have sorted Beauty out but I don't know the damage yet.  New water pump, apparently it had a small crack so hence no water, new thermostat and so tomorrow I am into Djebel at 7.00am to get the car.  The bus leaves here at 6.45 so I'm going with a neighbour instead.  After that no bus service until later....I didn't find out how much later but I suppose that will come with time.

So pick up Beauty, pick up the men, go into Kardjali to get the tiles for the upstairs now that I have made the decision and then to get the wood for the stairs.  All go isn't it but would you have it any other way.  

LN...I'm off to sleepy hollow.    

I have sent Mikey B full instructions, told him to print them and then to eat them as to how to get here...don't want too many people...it's a hideaway.  Any way,  I have a lift at 7.00 in the morning so it's early to bed, early to rise.