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Elsa Peters
January 16, 2013, 6:07pm Report to Moderator

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Wednesday 16th January

I was woken up this morning at silly o'clock by a metal and a plastic bowl being whizzed around the terrace by a howling gale. I should have gone out and rescued them but it was raining so hard that I made a coffee and went back to bed with my Bourne Supremacy until my eyelids travelled southwards.

Seven thirty when I awoke the second time and I debated with myself whether to light the fire or not.  It wasn't cold outside but it looked so damp and miserable that I needed to cheer myself up....so out came the paper and the matches and I have sat curled up in front of it most of the day.

Remsie my fourth Muscateer came round this afternoon and she said that Emaula's grandmother fell down in Haskovo and she too is in plaster.  Must be the season for it.  Exercised it most of the day with my arm up and the swelling appears to be going down.  I've also been applying the Arnica to the bits that I can get to but it's been a wee bit painful today but to be expected.  Horrendous thunder storm this lunchtime and the electricity was flickering but fortunately we didn't lose power....and it's just done it again so I want to post quickly...one handed typing is no my speciality....LN...off to the kitchen and back to the fire.....the rain is being thrown against the windows....it's not nice out there....LN
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hi elsa i hope you are still doing ok  just a short line to say hassan needs to go to the doctors in kardzhali      tomorrow so will come up with him i hope that you are ok with that had a few magazines from sonias gran   for  my birthday with a lovely letter well it has been more of a strugale today to get throught it would not let me on to   [color=blue][/color]my sieght so here i am
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January 17, 2013, 4:36pm Report to Moderator

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Thursday 17th January

Just before seven start....fire completely burnt out this morning so had to start from scratch but it didn't take too long.  Ominous skies over Greece with a few scudding clouds this morning but they cleared to provide an interesting start to the day.

One of my neighbours came round this morning and brought round of her yogurt.....delicious and that was my breakfast.  I didn't was up yesterday deciding to wait until I had enough to make it worthwhile and the sweetie offered to do it for me.  I told her it was five minutes work and that I was able to do it and did five minutes after she'd left.

Got the wood in, walked the estate, at last the terraces and garden were drying out after the downpours.  Managed to strip down and get every thing into the washing machine and get it started but not in the kitchen may I add. I have sheep for neighbours you know.  It was so nice to get all clean clothes on and a brush all the way through my hair but I had to use lots of serum to help it through.  It's in a french pleat of sorts....not an easy job with one hand.  Lunch was ham, onion and cheese omelette but it was easier to cook it than eat it.  Needed to cut it with a knife, deer Henry a knife dear Henry, dear Henry a knife and I believe that can be put to music

Carlos the Jackal is no more.  He came to grief in Russia so don't know what the last in the trilogy will be about.  Fish fingers for supper, orange juice for a chaser, alcohol once more off the menu.  LN....my arm chair calls....



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January 17, 2013, 4:42pm Report to Moderator

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hi Elsa i hope you are still doing ok. Just a short line to say Hassan needs to go to the doctors in Kardzhali      tomorrow so will come up with him i hope that you are ok with that had a few magazines from Sonia's gran   for  my birthday with a lovely letter well it has been more of a struggle today to get through it would not let me on to my site so here I am


Absolutely fine....see you both when you get here.  I'll have the kettle on...
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Hi Elsa good to know your doing ok with one hand   and being a very resourceful lady I know you'll be grand   I couldn't make that good an omelette with 2 hands never mind  one
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Hi Elsa good to know your doing ok with one hand   and being a very resourceful lady I know you'll be grand   I couldn't make that good an omelette with 2 hands never mind  one


I'm sure you could if you had to.

Seven twenty start...managed to wash my hair and out with the dryer and smart as you like to face the day.  Hospital for eleven and that's where the fun started.   Two emergency operations on grandmothers with fractured hip joints and I and to sit around until three this afternoon to be seen.  My lovely doctor bounded in fresh from the kill so to speak. but hopefully not, looked at my hand, wiggled my thumb and applied a new bandage.  And that was it......

My unveiling days is the 12th February and there has been a rumble of thunder and a flash of lightening so I'm off....catch you tomorrow...LN
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hi elsa sun is out  sky now blue looks better than earlyer to day  i am going to do more on the computer today have more   playing around  hope you slept well   me
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Saturday 19th January

Well that flaming storm went on most of the night and then the temperature dropped and the cars were white over when I got up at five thirty.  Wasn't sure where to put me arm last night.  When the doctor made the caste tighter it appears to be pressing on the bone but maybe that's what it's supposed to do.  I was very tempted last night to move my bed close to the freezer and go for it...

Chilling morning with the mist hanging in the valley over the river and a blueness about it.  It changed as the morning moved on and ended up being a lovely warm sunny day and I sat outside enjoying the view and the peacefulness.  Spare ribs into the slow cooker and later into the oven with honey barbecue sauce and served up at about four with pasta.  There is enough for tomorrow and Tommy will delight in the bones.  I had a visit from mt Avatar and my neighbour this afternoon and there was a showing of the bruising which received the standard 'Anna, Anna' or 'mother, mother' and off they trotted thinking how brave I am.  Believe me I wasn't so cheerful about it in the middle of the night.

Supper over, kitchen clear, fire going, curtain drawn and new book by Ken Follett underway.  Time I got back to it so LN



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Sunday 20th January

Don't know.....two o' clock and wide awake so read until five thirty and head down until seven twenty.  You hear of people working split shifts but I wonder how many people experience this same nightly routine.  Fire sorted and was toying with the idea of catching the morning market day bus into Djebel to post birthday cards for the UK but decided to do my morning Daily Mail Sudoku and couldn't understand why it was loading up Sunday's and not Monday's........suddenly hit me....it was Sunday so I might do the market tomorrow.

Poached eggs for breakfast and only using the one hand I managed to break both yolks.....and spreading hard butter with left hand is not easy.  Took Tommy the remains of last night's supper and a jar of tomato paste for my Avatar to open for me......I just couldn't manage it.  Made up a huge pot of baked beans that will stand over night and get frozen tomorrow into smaller portions.  Pretty useful and at least I know what's in them.

The rest of the day has been mainly with Ken Follett.  Not really sure if I'm enjoying it....good story but very detailed.  I've got Radio 2 doing it's stuff today.  Love Elaine Pages programme and her choice of music but her giggle got through today and now it's Lily Savage (Paul O'Grady) belting out.  Anyway....time to go down and keep my fire company....
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Monday 21st January

So  I made it through until six fifteen this morning and decided that it wasn’t cold enough to get the fire going so went back to bed and read until seven twenty or thereabouts.

Coffee, fire, beans on toast for breakfast came much later but there was a bit of a rumpus fairly early on.  I could hear the cows close to the fence and I looked out and realised that they had once more breached my neighbour’s garden and the cow man was rushing round trying to get them out.  Now Semile reckons it is nothing to do with bad cow husbandry….it’s bad fences but I’ll leave him to tell my neighbour that.

As for the rest of the day…wood in, curled up in front of the fire, the wing is howling and my tree is quivering.  Just a few rain splatterings but nothing to write home about.  My neighbour did come round today with food for the invalid and very tasty it was too.  She aslo gave me three eggs so the chickens must have started laying again....good.

Eighty eight percent of my book down so I’ll make it to the end now.  There was one point when I thought I wouldn’t bother…..LN



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