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Elsa Peters
January 10, 2011, 6:44am Report to Moderator

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Monday 10th January

Frosty again but last night I fell asleep in the chair infront of the fire and woke up about 8.30 and thought, too early to go to bed to sleep but I'll take Hitler and see how far I get.  As it happened, Hitler was put down at about 8.35 and I thought that if I woke up at silly o'clock I could take to my book again. No need.  I had the most interesting dream that I didn't want to come out of and didn't until 6.30 this morning.  Now as you know the hardest think I've done is to crochet a pair of slippers which were widely applauded by my ladies on their visit yesterday afternoon.  They do the full tour and wanted to see the new curtains that I had made for my bedroom so up we all trotted.  On the way down the stairs, I asked them to be carefull since I didn't have insurance.  So my avatar who saw the funny side of this comment translated it into Turkish for the one that doesn't speak any Bulgarian but she did appreciate my Turkish comments on another topic.  They were all intrigued by my fleece duvet cover and am amazed that I have a sewing machine out here.

Now going back to those slippers.  Princess would comment that I look more life a pair golf clubs that ever and thinking about it, they are rather like the club cosy covers that you see advertised...bovered....not in the least

Just a couple of pickies...I'm not taking orders yet this pair is the prototype and note the new landing carpet...3.5m x2.5m for 35 leve...that's about sixteen pounds to you and me



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January 10, 2011, 2:28pm Report to Moderator
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I think the phrase 'Ooh you are awful but I like you' is better than the golf club.......... Max Wall wasn't it or am I thinking of private Emery?........ If I am then it's really not as funny as I thought!!!.........Hope you are well....... have to say that your slippers look a little like cornish pasties but I bet they keep you toasty warm.

Feeling a bit poorly so think I will go home in a minute once the little darlings have gone. Love you, big kisses to the moon and back again, Mrs Kirtons xxxxxx (Princess )xxxxxxxxx
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How did private Emery become Private Emery?........ Think it has been auto censored by the P.C police? Ha ha ha  
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Elsa Peters
January 10, 2011, 7:28pm Report to Moderator

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Monday continued

I am a photographic studio....confirmed.  So one of my ladies appeared this lunchtime with hot food, rice with lamb wrapped in cabbage leaves, with a friend visiting from Turkey to look over the house and on her way out produced three photographs that ....well if you could possibly make them bigger.....and as she was leaving she handed me another....scarf and in my favourite colours of brown, cream with a hint of yellow so today I've been Turkish and this has been commented on in Kardjali and in Djebel.  So why was I in Kardjali....didn't have any picture frames and neither did Djebel of the right size so off to Kardjali I went to my other leva shop where I am now being recognised.  I also popped into my second hand shop and again they know that I am living in Dushinkovo and it is now established that I have a car......just had to call into Lidls on the way through and no crush for once and on the way back went into my restaurant in Djebel.  My lady was there and the four year old granddaughter who share's my birthday.  I was teasing her that it is grandmother Christmas not Father Christmas and she joined in the fun.  I have been invited to her birthday party but I might even have to invite a few friends of my own....so tonight and home and no fire but I bought some firelighters in Lidls so easy peasy...I have lift off.

As for you Princess...Max Wall....how very dare you.....'You are awful, but I like you'....but wasn't that 'Richard Emery' and yes it probably was the pc police that 'tidied' it up.  Moon and back and my pasties are really toasty and at some stage must be washed to stop them being meaty...
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Tuesday 11th January

So today I delivered the photos that I went all the way to Kardjali yesterday for the photo frames.  My poor lady was overcome....I do not know the full story but the photo that she wanted enlarging was one of her son that died several years ago and the others were of her husband and herself and one of them both with their cow...that's what they feel for animals over here.  She asked me if I wanted coffee and knowing that I had attempted no Bulgarian homework and Gouljan's a stickler, I declined the offer, but had some Halva forced upon me and a box of Turkish Delight and later in the day she arrived with potatoes and meat wrapped in cabbage leaves, still hot and so I decided to eat them there and then.  She must have waited for Gouljan to leave before she appeared so that she didn't ruin my lesson (as if).  

Today I have been inundated with stray cows.  There are four of the beauties and I know not to whom they belong but the gun comes out tomorrow if they are back and I care not.  They were out there in the misty morning at 7.00 so I chased them off and then dragged the metal pipe that the lads had dug up and replaced with plastic as my main water supply and heaved it up into the hedge so that even the cow that jumped over the moon couldn't have got over that and blow me down, they were back at 8.00 and had trampled down part of my hedge.  They are buggers.  So I thought I had repaired it sufficiently and during my lesson, there they were again.  Now the ruling from the EU is that any livestock has to be supervised, were they?  If they were he was so small that he couldn't see over the grass height so no imput there then.  D of S has been 'attacked' several times by the cmet's  (mayor) cow so much so that I think the freezer is the next stop off for the beastie.  So later I got a plank of wood, nailed one end to my walnut tree and put in supports....they haven't been back since and one stood and looked at the metal work and decided not to tackle it...good thinking.

So Gouljan left after trading the secrets of the village and we have arranged to go to Haskovo on Thursday as long as she hasn't got 'education' for her new project.  I really want her and it to succeed and I have introduced her to NLP for those of you who know what it is...Neuro Lingquistic Programming or telling the lies, by watching the eyes......and I have managed to print off some notes in Bulgarian for her from the web....I think she might find it interesting.

D of S has been approached about filming 'purchasing a property abroad'.  Now if you knew him and his aversion to telly you could guess the response.  Mine is...if the price is right, come on down....so we'll wait and see.  

Any way...tonight I am knitting a hat the pattern of which was demonstrated to me in the restaurant last night...I seem to have lost one stitch already but what's one amongst friends....I'm sure I can make it up before the end of the project and now I'm off to put another log on the fire and tomorrow I must organise more....they seem to go like hot cakes on my petchka....LN...I've some knitting to get sorted...



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January 12, 2011, 7:49am Report to Moderator
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Firelighters, you need a Roma!  First time every time!
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Buy a roll of fencing mesh and use that nailed to the trees that'l stop the Moo Moo's
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Elsa Peters
January 12, 2011, 3:19pm Report to Moderator

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Wednesday 12th January

As for the Roma, if you know one with a white stick I might give it a try but the firelighters seem to work everytime for me and for 32 for 2 leva....cheaper than medical treatment if you know what I mean .

Now my wood burner has been playing up and it was almost necessary to use an oxygen mask so this morning I thought, this is it, I'll take all the pipes out leading to the chimney and clean them out.  Now these were put in in a bit of a hurry and they had a strange lean to the right where Bekir had to cut one since they didn't come in the right length to make a good job of it and I was dreading taking them out and not managing to fit them in again.  As it is they go through the bathroom and I though it looked a little too tight to get them out but in for a stotinki in for a leva as they say in Bulgaria.

First off I tried the 'lever' principle but nothing would budge, then my Heath Robinson brain kicked in and I found a piece of wood and thought that if I damaged them to replace the lot would only cost me about a tenner so again, not going to break the bank even if I broke the pipes.  I hit it where I thought there would be a bit of give and it moved a little, so I hit it harder and bits of the pipe seemed to fall but onwards and upwards and hey presto, I'd separated two of the beauties.  Now it was uphill all the way and eventually I managed to get the wood burner pipes out into the yard.  Now to sort out the bathroom end.  So this was easier than I thought and the end that goes into the chimney came free but it seemed too long to remove it without taking that apart but with a bit of jiggery pokery and a little bit of twisting, out it came.  Firstly I set about cleaning the wood burner and the blockage appears to have been where the damper is sited.  So I cleaned that all out, managed to work out the smoke path, cleaned all the pipes and put it all back together again but this time using a smaller pipe so now it has a slight lean the other way but not so pronounced as before.  Game on....and the new pipe that I found was from my emergency wood burner in the kitchen so.... wanted....one new small pipe.  Tested it with a small fire to see if there was any smoke escaping and jobs a goodun.  I'm a heating engineer.

So today my neighbour had the cows...the work that I did yesterday was successful and so today I was mending her fence.  I then was invited into Avatar's house and I watched her cooking vine leaves and cabbage stuffed with rice, onions and herbs...I've put in a local sausage, chilli, onions, honey, potatoes and tomato paste into my slow cooker so I'm all prepared for tonight....and I think a little beer to wash it down...sorted.  

Now I can go stoke it up....and put the oxyen mask away for another year and at least I've done it once, so can do it again



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Wednesday continued

So Microsoft asks 'do you want to update now'....  just when I am about to post and so one picture missing...my response to Microsofe....bugger off .....NO.....but it did anyway so here is the missing picture.

Supper time and where's that beer I promised myself.....



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Thursday 13th January

So yesterday I finished Hitler...he commit suicide in the end in case you missed it and we won the war with the Americans and Russians.....I also read another book and this time the twist was in the (tail) tale and I never saw it coming...the lawyer murdered all of them and then defended the one that he has set up ....nice one so at 7.00 this morning with nothing to read, I had my shower and washed my hair ready for my trip into Haskovo with Gouljan.  I know where this lighting shop is and it was told to me by a couple that I met at their pig farm about a couple of years ago.  So I parked and paid 4 leva for 2 hours, we found the shop, nothing to my liking but I discovered that the male of the couple was still here and I already knew that the female had left for the UK, looked round a few more shops and then make our way back to the car but we were one minute over.  Now this strikes me as 'jobsworth'.  We got back late so I laughed when the attendant said 'one leva' and I said what one leva for one minute.  She humped about a bit and said in a louder voice....one leva...so I smiled and paid up and asked for a receipt....and that got her going.

So on the way back, I decided to drop of at the pigfarm and see if Gary was still there and he was.  We had coffee, Gouljan was absolutely enthralled by the conversation between two English people and I could see her making mental notes to ask me about the phrases used when we were back in the car.....and she did.  On leaving Gary gave me several jars of pickles made by his own fair hands and this she couldn't get over....a man who can do all that so I begged her not to judge English men by what she had just seen.  With my goodie bag in hand we got back into the car and headed for Kardjali where she insisted that she paid for lunch and then headed home. I had to pop into home to pick up some printed sheets from the PC about NLP and I couldn't open the door....the key turned, but the door wouldn't open so out came the ladder, I hitched it on to the flat roof to balcony number three and all the time she was telling me to be careful.  Now my intention wasn't to fall so I threw myself from the ladder to the roof, opened the balcony door with the key that I had placed on the key ring for just such an occasion and got into my house.  I think Gouljan is secretly amazed at the resorcefulness of this ageing English person who doesn't seem to be phased my much.....outwardly the duck on water, inwardly, legs going ten to the dozen...

Calm night tonight, have eaten,  so nothing to do, fire going, brandy and hot water at the ready and going to get into my gymjams any time now....what a lovely day.

LN tout le monde....a demain...
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