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Elsa Peters
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Saturday 1st March

If there are shepherds frolicking naked on those hillsides in the morning dew, I'd never see them for the morning mist??  Welcome Baba Marta...and for those of you that I've sent wrist bands to I shall be checking later to see if you are wearing them.  To the rest of you....please imagine taking a length of red and one of white ribbon and put it on your wrist.  

Chestita Baba Marta…..

Welcome Grandmother March is a holiday celebrated on the first of March. Martenitsa - usually in the form of a wrist band, woven by combining red and white colored threads - are worn on that day and through March, until a stork or a tree with blossom is seen, symbolising warmer weather and well being. There are various theories and suggestions about these two particular colors - red & white, from which the bands are made. A common belief is that ‘red’ represents ‘life or birth’ and ‘white’ denotes ‘anew’ or ‘on clear grounds’. Combined they mean ‘newborn’, ‘rebirth’, ‘a new beginning’; a celebration of Life and Survival. Another popular explanation is that white stands for wisdom and red for good health, which means that anyone giving you a Martenitsa is wishing you both throughout the New Year.

And I'm wishing it to you....
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And here's your Martinitsa

And look what else I got.  My own Baba Marta to add to my collection and my freasia in flower,  Whose the lucky girl then?....



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Sunday 2nd March

Early start and read my book until the urge to make baked beans on toast hit me.  Breakfast was over and the kitchen tidied by just after nine and struck up the computer and as I sat at my desk I noticed a rather large strange looking bird.  Out came the Canon and I snapped away and a couple of the red, white and black woodpeckers started knocking seven bells out of my wild plum tree and the other bird moved between the tree and the ground and it was joined by yet another or its type.  They had bright blue beaks and were very clumsy looking as they hopped about the tree but I took fifty odd photos of them in total.  Because I was taking them from the house, there was a reflection on the glass so a lot of them turned out to be not so good.  Tomorrow I should get the bench out ready and take up position before they come to feed.

Next on the agenda was to start Beauty from the Beast and I didn't manage to get a good connection and since I was running short of time to get to my student I gave up thinking tomorrow is another day.  Into Djebel, the family already had a neighbour around and I found out that this one goes to the Christian church and the service is at eight on a Sunday morning....maybe this is the opening I want but not that I shall be able to sing along but I might know the hymns so I could hum along.

Lunch was served at just after twelve and we then struck up verbal tennis where I try out Bulgarian, my student goes for English but translating it along the way into Turkish for the rest of the family.  I left at around two thirty under great protest and home to light the fire and get set in since it was throwing it down with rain,  And as for the weather now...the lightening is batting round so this is going to be a short update.....nature is bringing an end to the ramblings.  LN...computer to bed and I shan't be long following it...LN



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Quoted from Elsa Peters
Sunday 2nd March
think_its_a_hawfinch


Think your bird identification is pretty good  

Or did you cheat like I did?  

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/h/hawfinch/index.aspx
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Monday 3rd March

Cheat me.....how very dare you TCin BG!!  I have friends that do it for me and advise me on Facebook...

Bulgarian national holiday today and I hope everyone has had a good day....Five thirty start and two cups of coffee later and about ten percent of my new book and I was up to light the fire.  It has been cold, wet and miserable all day today but I moved a lot of the plants that have wintered in the little house outside so that they could get a good watering.  Several of them are starting to show greenery and it was easier to take them out than to take the water in but the watering under the downpipe was filling very rapidly...boy has it come down today.

Breakfast was a spicy sausage with a fried egg with a touch of the HP sauce and it did the trick.  I had an interesting discussion on Facebook as to the identify of my woodpecker.  One response was that it was a Syrian woodpecker but the RSPB book put it at being a middle spotted one due to its markings but the one that I photographed today that seems to be making its home in the tree had no read on its head at all so now I'm thoroughly confused.  It was raining so hard this afternoon as the poor thing bashed away that I was very tempted to go out there with an umbrella.  

Fried off an onion with some carrots, peas and the remains of the chicken and came up with a very delicious chicken soup.  As I said I was so cold that I felt I needed something to reach the parts that a sandwich couldn't and it turned out to be a late lunch / early supper with hot buttered toast and it did the trick.   Phone call from the UK and it looks like I might have more visitors in May for a week or so but it's not going to interfere with Andrea Bocelli.... I'll make sure of that.  The car goes in tomorrow to check over the air and oil filters...there was a little bit of a slow reaction on acceleration and a puff of smoke so I want them to take a look at it.  I ordered the parts today so that the garage already have them.  It just didn't feel right yesterday.  I'm also meeting the Librarian in Djebel tomorrow and we're heading out to Momchilgrad to the market and I just hope the weather improves overnight but having said that....there wasn't a cloud in the sky at five thirty this morning and the star were amazing...it was just downhill after that.

So down to my book.  This new one is by an Edward Rutherfurd and entitled Sarum giving the history of Salisbury and Stonehenge....fascinating.  LN....I might even go and find me a little drink to pass the evening with...LN



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Tuesday 4th March

Out with my boots blacked at eight ten this morning except that they weren't blacked as such, my nubuck suede were rubbed over with a damp cloth before I took off with the Beast.  It had rain none stop most of yesterday and through the night and there was plenty of huge puddles on the road and the river in Djebel had more water flowing that I had ever seen before.  OK we need it for filling up the reservoirs especially since we have had a very mild winter with little snow but I'd rather have the snow that this damp cold dreary weather that we have now.

I dressed for the cold.  Two sweaters, my long woollen cardigan, body warmer and gloves knowing that to sit it out in the garage while they do their stuff can be a bitter experience.  I beat them to it this morning.  As I drove to the garage I saw the garage owner and his wife going back from the nursery having dropped the little one off and she phoned to say that the brother would be down in five minutes but the car was warm and I had taken my Kindle so there wasn't a problem.  The brother arrived, I explained the problem, we'd identified possible causes and were part way to the solution when the garage owner arrived.  I sat by the little petchka in the garage while they went to work on the Beast and the oil and oil filter were changed, the air filter too and the fuel filter for good measure since the diesel in BG is not as pure as it could be and there was a little water in the fuel reservoir.  So now I thought it was all done but no.  He gave it a test drive, said that he needed to investigate the back brakes and then suggested that I decamp to the shop in Djebel while it was done since the parts had to come down from Kardjali on the bus.  Two hours later, he delivered the Beast back to me, I ran him down to the garage, phone Gouldjan, gave her a lift home and eventually arrived at my house at just before three.  Long morning....bill paid and all this for just under two hundred lev.  Try that in England.

So what happened to my plans with the Librarian?  She missed the morning bus, fortunately so went back home again and tomorrow I'll fetch her in Beauty when I get it going in the morning and get it going I will.  Off to Kardjali tomorrow to sort out tickets to go to Sofia on Thursday.  Got a roaring fire going and more wood in just to get warm again.  Despite the cladding I'd got cramping in my toes so on with my thick Bulgarian socks and put the fleece blanket over my feet and legs to get them warm again.  It briefly stopped raining this afternoon and I had every intention of digging over the vegetable patch or at least enough of it to get some onions in having bought some onion sets from Djebel this morning.  Instead I watched the sheep and the shepherd hold one of the big ones so that one of the orphans could get a feed.  No gardening done....it started to rain again so Friday will be the next opportunity so let's hope the weather improves though the forecast doesn't look vet promising.  Thank you Baba Marta.

Down I go to top up the fire.  I have no update on woodie since neither of us have been around much today.  LN...I've now reached the year 846AD with Mr Rutherfurd and we're into King Alfred more or less.  We've travelled a long way from Stonehenge already....LN



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Wednesday 5th March

Silly night...couldn't sleep so went on to the computer to do a few silly games and the next thing there was a power cut and lightening flashing on the hillside but no thunder.  Made my way down stairs, picked up the torch and since the UPS to the central heating was belting out I decided that a session of Angry Birds was in order until the power was restored and my eyelids were at least heading a little southwards which they eventually did.

Seven am start and there was a glimmer of sunshine over the hills but I knew it wasn't going to last for long.  Showered, shampooed, tried to start Beauty and despite a decent connection with the jump leads there was no jump so set off for the Librarians in the Beast and got there for about eleven.  Off to Kardjali, got the tickets for the bus for Sofia tomorrow, managed to find the shop for the photographs for the passport renewal which is the reason for the outing tomorrow, over to Kaufland and it;s still as bad as the first time I went, picked up fuel and then off to the electricity suppliers in Momchilgrad to check whether or not it has been connected.  Good news, the Roo has the box and now we shall see about getting him cable from the box to the school and sockets for running whatever he wants to run.

Back via Djebel and I explained to my student's mum that there was no way that the jump leads were doing it for me and at six tonight her husband and his brother came out to get Beauty into the garage and sorted once and for all,  We took bets and I won...no way were they starting it from the leads and eventually they towed it down the road and it jumped into life.  Supper was chicken with veg in chicken soup with a crusty potato topping, the sandwiches are made for tomorrow's journey and alarms have been set for a four thirty start.  Just about to go to my virtuous couch....the Librarian is already in PJ's and stuck into her Kindle....any road up....LN....we have an early start tomorrow...LN



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Thursday 6th March

Four thirty start...out in the car for just after five this morning and into Kardjali for the six o'clock bus to Sofia and everything on time.  Today's plan was to get the passport for the Librarian renewed and what a fiasco that was.  We got a taxi to the British Embassy to be told that everything was to be done over the internet.  The security guard said that we could not make an appointment and we explained that we were two old ladies (fnagg) and that we wanted assistance but he tried to get some sense out of the Bulgarian speaking blond figure head behind reception and we were told to leave .  There was a little consulate activity with some sort of general leaving the place but maybe the black plastic bag containing our sandwiches was considered a threat.  Official complaints are to follow.  I subsequently tried the telephone number and got landed with a messaging system that pointed me in the direction of the internet and the UK Gov. (aaarrrggghhh).  We gave up and went to IKEA instead which was much more successful.

Picked up several pieces of furniture between us and this is being delivered to my home within the next six working days.  We had grandmother's meatballs (kotbulla)and chippies with their special gravy for lunch and munched on out sandwiches as we came back on the four thirty coach arriving at just before eight thirty in Kardjali.  Into the Beast, back home by nine twenty and fire going beautifully, a little beer on the go and we are two tired and happy bunnies from IKEA and pleased we found something constructive to do instead of festering about our treatment at the Embassy.....LN....I am mentally composing something appropriate for tomorrow...and copies of which will be posted here...LN



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Friday 7th March

We had a latish start and was coffeed at just before eight.  I lit the fire at about sevenish so that it was warm to sit down to and chill...so to speak.

Found a packet of smoked salmon in the fridge so this morning's breakfast was scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on toast, orange juice to wash it down and there was no need for toast to follow.  Five eggs and enough for the two of us.  Sat around chewing the cud for an hour or so, phoned up the garage and they had found nothing wrong with Beauty but they had removed the radio.  Nothing to complain about there...it's normally off anyway.

Drove into Djebel and to the garage, the Librarian drove back the Beast and I took Beauty through her paces and home James only stopping off for my Librarian to buy enough to see her through until the next shopping expedition her being temporarily without transport.  Frozen everything from the local supermarket plus four loaves of bread and back to mine to drop off the Beast, everything packed into Beauty and we headed for her home.  The dogs were overjoyed to see her again...I reckon they thought she had left home and we sat down to coffee and chocolate cake...we definitely know how to live.

Drove home, topped up with wood and persuaded the fire to give it its all and now the house is warm, I've just used up the remains of my spicy sausage and cooked it with honey and chilli and my supper is three quarters to being prepared.  It will be served with pasta and there should be enough for two more servings to go into the freezer.  I'm going to say LN...I'm about to have supper, dive into the shower. get into my onesie on and my daughter will appreciate that I'm getting some use out of it.  Final step is to curl up with my Kindle and Mr Rutherfurd...on my goodness...what a hard life...LN
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Saturday 8th March

Very lazy day today and even the fire made it easy for me.  It was still going this morning.  It's been a cold wind and damp with a few drops of rain and the intentions were good but the inclination never got the better of me.  Finished off the smoked salmon on toast for breakfast and felt rather decadent as I lay reading for most of the day on the sofa in front of the fire.  I've had some interesting links on FB and  memory lane from my town of birth but even the memories are from subsequent generations so maybe the ones of my vintage haven't made it to Facebook yet.

So it's Women's day today and tonight I am off with the Librarian to my favourite restaurant in Djebel to celebrate the occasion.  We shall probably have some food and as we didn't managed to get a taxi home last year I'm taking the car.  We did get home though.  The lad who works in the local supermarket gave us a lift but it was a bit scary so this year...not going to take any chances.  Well if I get back in time I shall be posting pictures otherwise it will be tomorrow.

So going for a shower and since the Librarian's jeep is off the road, I'm over to collect her so it's time that I got my act together.  Shower, shampoo and out with the sequins.....stitched by hand by....naaa....might even catch you later....



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Sunday 9th March

Well Ladies day is over for another year.  We celebrated it at the restaurant and it all went well but we pulled down the curtains at about half eleven and headed home.  Got the fire going again and sat talking until just before one and then headed for the wooden hills or rather the Librarian did while I sloped off with Kindle in one hand and a whisky with hot water and sugar in the other...hot toddie since I'd been on apricot juice and water for the last few hours.  There was some rather hectic dancing going on and my birthday buddy carried it off well.  She really does know all the dances and the words to the song.  I was dragged to the floor for a final dance by her grandmother...and managed to move it grove it in true Turkish style.  Everybody wins at their tombola and we collected some loot....

This morning the plan was that if we woke up early enough we would head to the local Christian church.  I woke up the Librarian at just before seven  and asked her if we were still going and go we did.  My information was that the service started at eight so we sat outside the church and the padlock was still on the gate.  A little old lady came up to the gate, she opened the padlock, walked up the church steps, unpadlocked the door, shook the mat, rang the bell....and we were off.  We went inside and she was just lighting the petchka and said that it would be OK in quicksticks but to take seats near to it.  You know what it's like...people that go regularly to a church have their favourite pews but in this case there were no pews, only chairs along the side walls with the pictures of the saints and the apostles adorning the front wall with loads of candles everywhere.  We spoke for a few minutes and she asked me if we were visitors to Djebel and I explained that it had taken me four years to get there.  I asked her where the local man in black was and was told that he only gets there on hight days and holidays....so hence no service as we know it.  We were the only three in there but as the church got a little warmer from the fire she had lit two more elderly ladies arrived, purchased and lit a few candles, said a few prayers so I thought it was time that we did out bit for the local ecumenical  economy.  So the Librarian and myself purchased a couple of candles each, lit them up and placed them in the receptacles.  We said our goodbyes and it will probably he a holiday when I go next time...and it will be a darned sight warmer.

Over to the coffee bar for a hot drink, then to my student's home to pick up her father to go off to see the man that's making my furniture.  Everything sorted, the wood will have no finishings applied and I will put on my own which will probably be linseed oil and eventually beeswax.  Back to their house and they insisted on feeding us, left there and home for about two thirty and it's now started to snow.  Why is it that when I book the men for work the weather changes...

Taking the Librarian home when I've finished the update and then  I might have to phone the men and cancel tomorrow...it's still coming down and the wind is heading from Siberia...very chill.  LN.....making a move to get myself either here or there for tomorrow morning and checking out the weather on the way...LN



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Monday 10th March

So slept on the sofa at the Librarians last night and everyone retired early so I put my little head down at nine thirty and at three thirty this morning I was reading.  It must be that the older you get the less sleep you need apart from when you over imbibe and then you sleep the sleep of the just.  Snowing last night but this morning there was only a little.  I had a phone call from Bekir at just after seven this morning and said that work was on and that I expected it to disappear as soon as it had come and that seemed to be the mantra.  It was decided that they would work on the bathroom but we had to go into Djebel for some bits so Bekir and myself headed for Momchilgrad and the TOK office so finalise the arrangements for the electricity connection to the school.  They can't manage it until Wednesday but Bekir wanted to visit the school to check on the connections and all looks good.  On Wednesday we have to go to the offices again, pay over some money for the connection and Bob's your Uncle and it should be all done.  Fingers crossed!!!

Came back and the men got to work on carrying out my design except for the fact that I hadn't really got one.  It appears to be fluid and is generated by the obstacles that appear in the way.  My only mantra is that I don't really want to see any pipes and they know that so at least we appear to be travelling in the same direction.  The bath was excavated from the third bedroom, measured, everything stripped out of the bathroom and Sally was straight way on finishing the tiling while Bekir and myself tried to find the correct height for the bath without me having to use a stepladder to get into it.  The design for the sink and settle as we might call it depends on the baskets delivered tomorrow from IKEA but that at least is on paper from PowerPoint as I impressed them both with my skills.

Later this afternoon it really started to come down and since they are working upstairs and the bathroom window glass is crazed, they weren't aware that it was beginning to settle.  Because neither of them drive, it appears to be no problem to them but there are lots of open spaces where the wind blows the snow over the road and it was a pretty hairy drive back...pretty and hairy but it was even worse coming back.  The temperature had started to drop and you could feel the tyres crunch into it and there were a couple of places where it's down hill and a sharp bend at the bottom where I had to take it really gently and a few hills to go up where you cross your fingers that you're going to make it.  

Any way home safely.  Don't think they are working tomorrow if the temperature really drops tonight as forecast...it will be pretty lethal tomorrow.  Got home just before seven and there was a carrier bag hanging on my door and it's a present, I think, from my lovely neighbour but it's hard to decipher the writing ...it's a box of chocolates and a pair of slippers for the 8th March.  I'm really touched.

So supper..... not sure if I want any....but I've just poured a glass of wine so maybe a little later.  LN...I hear the intrepid travellers are disembarking at Calais so I'll keep you updated....LN



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Tuesday 11th March

Six start and it was still snowing so back to bed with a coffee and the Kindle.  I'd made my mind up after it took me about an hour to get back last night having to concentrate all the way that there was no way I was out this morning for the men.  It was still coming down at ten but it warmed up considerably and I was pushing slush off the terrace and the paths ready for my IKEA delivery that I'm still waiting for.  There was some confusion on the date and the day and I phoned them back to confirm that it was Tuesday but maybe he wasn't understanding my Bulgarian very well and I was certainly not understanding his English but a bit like me, he insisted on trying....so I'm thinking that between us we buggered it up.

So the rest of the day has been a day of nothing.  I did get the sewing machine out to make two new cushions for the kitchen benches but instead of that I recovered the sofa in the hall so I suppose I did something today.  Other than that all I managed to achieve was to tread on my small tablet and knacker the screen...it has a most interesting pattern of bands of colour on it but nothing that would resemble anything to do with Angry Birds which was what I was playing before I decided to strip the hall sofa ready to recover the said seat cushion and it must have been in the blanket.  Not too much of an angry bird for damaging it, the battery life was so naff that by the time you got into a game it was ready for a recharge.

Early supper and I've telephoned the Librarian and arranged for her to house sit tomorrow to accept our delivery while I'm off to the school with the men to get the electricity connected.  So pick up the Librarian, then the men, back to mine, drop off the Librarian, pick up tools and off we go to EVN main office, pay more money over and their man comes and makes the connection.  It's going to be a long day tomorrow.

The snow has melted and the roads are more or less clear so I should have no problems in the morning...or is that famous last words...LN....back to my book on my newly upholstered sofa in front of my blazing fire...LN



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Wednesday 12th March

And IKEA delivery service don't know the difference between Tuesday the 11th and Wednesday 12th.  They thought that Tuesday was the 12th.....but all is safely gathered in, stashed for construction and the Librarian has hers already at her home.

So today....out at seven ten, over to the Librarians, picked her up on the lane, stopped off at the shop and got smothered by ladies starting their shift at the sewing factory and pushed myself to the front of the queue to pay for a couple of items.  Men in the car, dropped off the Librarian at mine to wait for the furniture to arrive from Sofia, over to Momchilgrad to pay for the man to come and make the connection, stopped off and bought breakfast and over to the school to get the electricity supply connected and some plugs activated.  Jobasaguddun, so to speak and apart from running short of cable and it being too late to get any more...most of the work is completed but we did not have the necessary equipment for putting in a standpipe but that will have to come later when the weather picks up.

Left at just before six, over to Djebel and stopped off at the supermarket for bread for the Librarian and we have an assortment of gifts for the wives.  Sally had some curtain rails and cabbage for his and Bekir has oranges because his son likes them.  Straight home and dropped off the tools, picked up the Librarian and the stuff that was delivered for her from IKEA and over to drop off the men and the Librarian with her goodies and I'm absolutely knacked.  I took some good photos today but goodness knows where my camera is.....I think it went into the little house but it's much too dark to go wallowing around in there so you'll just have to wait.

LN...supper was spicy sausage fried off with onions and a chunk of bread to go with it.  There is a little of the red stuff washing it down and now it's time for a shower and then to bed said Zeberdee....LN...I'm really knacked tonight....
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Silly o'clock start this morning but I went to bed at nine thirty last night so I'd had my allotted hours.  Read for a while and up at six, on to the computer and out for the men after a couple of coffees at seven thirty.  Bekir got into the car clutching two light bulbs and the intentions was to complete the work that my Avatar had asked him to do yesterday...I keep my village supplied.

Work continues on the bathroom and it changes hourly.  I put together three of the things that were delivered from IKEA yesterday but the fourth one I've but on the 'to do list'.  They supplied a crappy plastic thing for enclosing the screwing thing they supplied and KI kept dropping it.  The last one will be done in my time.  Set to making the rest of my bed and screwed up the measurements somewhat.  Bekir and myself argued the point but I believe he is correct but will not be convinced until I have measured the wood and tried it out...such is my determination and his.

Took down part of the old fence that has been replaced by the new wall and dropped it down the bottom of the wall to stop the stray dogs from entering the garden.  Tommy seems to be the favourite but anything I put in the fire pit and is not destroyed seems to be fair game for the local canine and kit-kat club.  

So men home, Sally tells me that he has his own work to do tomorrow and I asked Bekir if he still wanted to play but he will phone me tomorrow.  I think that Bekir thinks that Sally wants a good talking to...wages like I pay them aren't to be found everywhere.  Back home now and beer on the go.  I'll wait and see if I have workers or not tomorrow but either way...I have enough to do...I'm now spurred on.  Photographs are from yesterday....LN...now down infront of the fire...it's going well...LN



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Hi Elsa, Received the Baba Marta wishes today Thank you.   Very nice surprise. Mum said Thank you, and Hopes your doing ok, xxxx
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You're very welcome Linda and yes, I was doing OK until this morning when I decided to turn out the downstairs wet room, emulsion it and wash down the tiles...   And thank you for my Birthday card, they must have passed somewhere over India.  Lovely photos and I especially like the one of the boys.....big love to you all.

Bekir phoned this morning....Sally had his own work to do and Bekir decided that he didn't want to work on his own since a lot of today needed two pairs of hands to do it.  I said that it was OK and a day on my own now that I was motivated into action wouldn't go amiss.  First project was to make remake the bed in my upstairs bedroom.  I climbed up to the second floor in the little house and got the timbers down to ground level and it all went pear shaped after that.  When I had the problem with the chimney and there was smoke appearing to come out of every orifice in the bathroom it was somebody's bright idea to open the bathroom window but the rain was pouring down and the smoke condensed on the tiles and it was a job that I'd been putting off.  So today, took the bull by the horns so to speak, emptied the shelves, cleared it completely, set to at about one and finished at six thirty.  Two coats of emulsion, sparkling tiles and I'm now deciding how much really needs to go back or can some of it be ditched.  All the 'bits' are sitting in the laundry basket and it's a job for tomorrow.

Another incident this morning.  I reckoned that I could get the new single mattresses from the lounge up the stairs on my own.  Wrong...got it part way but I got very worried about my windows and ended up unscrewing the banister since I had reached a stalemate with the mattress....it wouldn't go up and it wouldn't come down so now it's upright against the replaced banister in the hall.  I'm waiting for a knight in shining armour but maybe Sally and Bekir will assist on Monday if there are no takers before then.

So tomorrow I have another blank canvas and I'm thinking that the kitchen might have a lick of paint now that I'm in the mood.  It must be the sun that does it and it's been such a beautiful day despite being white over this morning and quite a hard frost.  Probably get the same again tomorrow...we have a clear sky, a more or less full moon and the temperature's dropping but as long as we have sun tomorrow....the nights are perfectly acceptable...

Down to the kitchen...I have to find something to eat as I'm feeling a little peckish after a busy day....LN...same again tomorrow hopefully..LN
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Saturday 15th March

Four thirty start and at that time in the morning it doesn't seem worth going back to sleep for me.  Read for a while...coffee and back to bed and up on the PC at about six and watched the sun come up.  It was a beautiful rosy-blue dawn and the mist was lingering in the valleys....magic.

So I set about cleaning the house at around seven.  I had visions of getting out the emulsion and attacking the kitchen but instead of that I shunted the mattresses around yet again and the one is now in my bedroom and the other behind the lounge door..  On Monday come hell or high water they are upstairs...  Washed the kitchen rugs and it was such a beautiful day that they dried in quicksticks.  I even took the carpets outside and gave them a good beating...it must be spring.

Read for a while this afternoon until my eyes were heading towards my cheeks and off I went for a couple of hours to be awoken by the phone.  I was so deeply gone that for a while I couldn't work out if it was morning or night but eventually came to to hold a semi-decent conversation....and tomorrow I have guests for supper.

Decided that the plants in the little house deserved much better and so they're now outside.  I've planted one rose by the garage wall but the enthusiasm waned when I hit a polythene mine and I ended up using a saw to cut though it and remove the bit that really mattered. So as the mood took me I started digging over the vegetable patch and I think the sheep droppings have produced a marvellous crop of ...grass and chickweed...remind me not to spread it again.  Supper was the remains of last night's chilli thingie with spaghetti, a little beer on the go and my student in the morning.  LN....I'd like to be getting into a hot bath to get rid of my aches and pains but it's not plumbed in yet...I'll have to make do with a shower...LN
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Early start and yet again and there were a few clouds to mar the sunrise...It took quite a while for the sun to break through but there was a bit of a stiff breeze.  Got the fire going outside and got rid of the rubbish, showered and got my hair wash and out for my student at just before ten.  More conversational that studious today and we made a torte with bananas and cream while the parents were working in the garden.  They plant such a lot up and I think it's more out of habit than need.  We had lunch and then my student, her father and myself headed for Lidl since I had invited my new neighbour and his parents around for supper so that I could get to meet them properly.  First stop though was Kaufland and I managed to purchase a few more of their super value baskets and I doubled my order when I realised that they were still at the promotional price despite being price-marked up at twice the price.  So that's a little gift for the Librarian...they are so useful and such good value.

Back home for about four thirty and straight into the kitchen to prepare and cook barbecued pork, hasselback potatoes, red cabbage and before my daughter asks me how much there was half of a big one, some carrots and peas and for pudding I served up peaches and plums with a choice of yoghurt or cream....All went well and the washing up is waiting for my attention but it can wait until tomorrow morning...guess  it's not going anywhere.

So ten my time....it was a good evening but I think the long drive down has got the better of them and they need their rest.  Tomorrow Kardjali is on the cards that's if I managed to sort the men out and everything is tickerty boo.....I hope Sally is feeling better.  Lovely moon tonight and father was out with his camera taking lots of shots of the surrounding views and the moon with its huge halo.  I'm not sure what it signifies but I'm hoping it's good weather.  LN  it won't be too long before my little head hits the pillow tonight....a very successful day and evening...LN
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Monday 17th March

Half way through this month already...where do the days go?  As it happened the mood took me to do the washing up last night so that I had a clean kitchen to start the day with knowing that the only washing up fairy is in a green bottle my the side of the washing up bowl.

Out to pick up the men and just after seven thirty, back to the ranch and they started straight away telling me that they needed a few bolts but that they could wait until later knowing that I was destined for Kardjali today and could I please bring back some waste water pipe...tow meters of the stuff and all tasks successfully completed but not in record time.

Over to the old school and off we set after a cup of coffee to make the required purchases of white goods so that housework, all be it mechanical, could commence as soon as one plug was placed in one socket.  There is the river at the bottom of the hill where one could 'dobbie' if the mood took but not much danger of that.  Over to the chicken restaurant taken with the statutory half a loaf, on to the leva shop for all those bits that you really need and I've yet to see anything in there for one lev.  Back to the starting point and I stopped for yet another cuppa, drove to the garage and have booked it in for tomorrow morning giving me a couple of hours in Djebel to find the shop and get a new internet provider...I'm tired of this one that forces me to purchase extra band width to maintain the speed that I get for the first two weeks of the billing period.  Nobody mentioned that when I took out the contract.

Men home...no need for supper after such a big lunch but a little beer might just settle me down for the night.  Heck of a lot of smoke when I lit the fire this evening and I thought we were back to where we were about six weeks ago but it was all down to an westerly gusting wind and as soon as there was heat in the chimney it all settled down.  Lovely moon tonight....it's just so huge....I think I'm going out to bay at it...LN



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Hi Elsa - what a coincidence: I too am reading Sarum. On p 577 so probably another week's worth of reading in it. Then I move onto his book London.
What a busy life you lead! x x
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What a busy life you lead Danny....already thinking about the next book.  Not a clue what page I'm on since it's on the Kindle. I'm on 95% and the hero gets killed in the end...   

What a morning.  Over to pick up the men...they're working happily on the bathroom and into Djebel to get the 'tampons' done and the cost of stripping it down and fitting one new one was nine leva.  I gave him ten and he gave me back five eggs....how's that for a transaction.  My new neighbour brought his car over for the 'clunk' to be investigated and investigated it was and he can pick it up tomorrow.  Most of the parts were in stock but two bits have to come down from Plovdiv and there was a mystery about five apples that I bought....we had them before we hit the garage but didn't have them in the Beauty when we got back to his.  Went over to the new Internet provider and they are over at his as we speak and are coming to mine later this afternoon.  It means putting up a dish but not too sure where it would be best sited...I don't really want to see it.  We'll take advice when they arrive.  The mystery of the apples was solved however when I went to the garage to pick up two loads of washing from the weary travellers since they were running out of clothes and Widow Twanky will be delivering tomorrow.  The apples had been put in the Jeep but since it was too ill to travel they had been removed to the car shop.  One load of washing complete, the second load is rumbling away and first is out drying already.

Bekir is building and applying silicon and I really hate the smell of it and Sally is busy grouting...coffee has just been served and after this little update I'm going to sit in the sun with the Kindle to knock off the other five percent and then I too might start on London by My Rutherfurd.....I've already finished New York (Danny)....

Second load finished....out to hang it out...catch you later I'm sure but with some pickies this time....I've been a little mean with them for the last few posts....
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Tuesday quick update

Men arrived for the internet installation, looked over it and decided that they will come back tomorrow at ten roughly.  Suits me fine so I've asked for the washing to be collected tonight....tomorrow Widow Twanky turns into the decorating queen and the kitchen is on the priority list.  Having said that I might be so pleased with my internet and wifi stuff that I shall be on You Tube all day or downloading everything in sight....or on site.

There were no new photos...the sun was down by the time I got back from dropping off the men...LN...I'm just about to get me a beer so I'll raise a glass to those that will appreciate it...LN
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What a mix up of a day....men over this morning and Internet men over by 10.45 but Bekir was orchestrating the installation.  He knows that I don't like cables stretched forever over the inside or outside of the building so he takes my feelings into account.  The lads put up the antenna which is perfect and not at all obtrusive which I was thinking that it would be.  Strategy came into play and part of my lovely wild plum tree had to be removed to get a clear sight of the mast so Bekir was up there and was down before the camera managed to get focused.  He was balanced like a money between the branches and only the top came off but I think we've got to have it neatened to strike the balance.  So men twisted and turned the antenna and now I have a perfect signal and it also means that I have wifi in the house which is the main reason for changing.  

Pianna mush one of my neighbours was directing operations today until I reminded him that it was my house not his and that he should talk quietly....I think the volume is controlled by the amount of rakia consumed and I couldn't find the volume knob so he had to go.

Going back to this morning...I was stripping out the kitchen and about to start on the whitewashing and Bekir decided that there would be more on me than the walls if he allowed me to go ahead....Sally was nominated from a short list of one and it looks superb.  Two coats of the white stuff and then we moved on to my downstairs bedroom where the old plaster was looking not too good and that's now replaced.  Sally, Sally, Sally....   The kitchen is now put back together and it looks really good.

Guests this afternoon so out with the tea bags and tomorrow I'm scheduled to pick up Gouldjan in the morning at nine for school, Andrew down at the garage for nine fifteen or thereabouts...over to pay for my new internet connection, back to the garage and eventually to the school and on to Kardjali.  My life seems to have a life of its own at the moment....back home for the men, just cooked chippies with eggs done in the chippie pan for supper tonight and there is some German beer on the go.

Fire going well despite the fact that it was not lit until I got home from taking the men....quick update...and now I'm looking to put new books on my Kindle since the last 5% of Sarum is complete and is no more.  LN....I have things to do, no places to go but I've heard that we might very well have tickets for Andre Bocelli concert in  Sofia...who's a happy bunny....LN



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Went to sleep on the sofa last night, woke up at ten and staggered off to bed and awake at six so all in all a good night's sleep though happening in various places....Quick shower this morning and over for the men, picked up Gouldjan at nine so that she could get into work later than normal and down to the garage.  This morning was the day for paying for my internet so I decided to go for the year when you pay ten months only...seemed like a deal and no paperwork except the receipt as payment.  I asked them about time off if I went to England and all you have to do is unplug your modem...simple as that and how difficult to other service providers make it...

My new neighbours Jeep wasn't going to be ready by lunchtime so over to his local town to pick up his parents and deliver them to his new abode.  Father and son had the day planned out while his mum and I set off for Kardjali to return one kettle that had an intermittent fault.  Their immediate response that they would send it away for repair to which I replied that we wanted a new one or our money back since his parents were leaving for the UK on Tuesday and what good was that going to do them.  So off the young lady went to discuss it with the chief and his response was that there wasn't a problem with it....so off she went again and this time one of the young lads came out and explained in broken English that the chief had said that there wasn't a problem so off I went to find the chief....He decided that he would demonstrate that there wasn't a problem ....and his demonstration failed miserably.  Result...they do not have one in stock so there will be one sent over from Haskovo tomorrow and I'll collect and return to home base.  Bulgarian guarantee...not worth the paper it's written on.

So took Mum to Mania and she managed to get a pair of trousers for her husband, a spiral bound book as a small gift....I gracefully received four new black dishes to match some that I'd already bought and then back to the school, into the car, Jeep ready for collection, back to mine since my men are working one plumbing and electrics at the school tomorrow.  My tools over to the school and men to home.  I'm tired tonight...it's been a warm one and lots of to-ing and fro-ing and tomorrow it's off to Kardjali again to sort out my annual company tax returns, my reinvestment of my Bulgarian bank account and to pay the tax on my car.  All go for me.  I have to pick up the kettle...probably have negative words with the big chief but hopefully not and after that it's gardening for me.  I have a veg garden that is severely in need of love and attention since the sheep poo did it's stiff but what fantastic weeds I have....

Bathroom is nearly finished.  A couple of floor tiles, a wooden beam to be inserted, sink to be fitted in a new shelf so almost there.  I can hardly wait for my new bath.  So enough ramblings for tonight...



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Friday 21st March

Welcome to the first day of Spring today....didn't feel much like springing out of bed though and could still be found hiding under the sheets at ten this morning.  I think it was knowing that I had lots of things to do in Kardjali that involved paperwork and I wasn't in the mood for it.  I eventually got out of bed at around ten thirty...got a load of washing underway, showered and hair washed, two difficult sudoku from the Daily Mail and eventually set sail for Kardjali at just after twelve so not bad timing really and the washing was hung out and since I got back late it's still out there.  I have no intention of breaking my neck staggering round the garden.

So as for the rest of the day.  Changed the kettle for a new one and the Bulgarian guarantee is transferred over to the new one.  The boss wasn't there though so it really wasn't much fun.  I paid my local tax on the Beast which was forty three leva and over to the other building to submit my annual returns for the company but unfortunately the very kind lady that normally completes it was no longer working there so I found another angel of mercy.  Cost for submitting paperwork...nothing...and all legal for another year.  Made my way over to M-Tel and told them that I was cancelling my contract with them and when asked why I told them.  The connection speed is rubbish and it keeps dropping off or telling me that someone else is using my connection and since it is a dongle...how can that be....I have no idea but now it is no more.  My contract has expired so no excess to pay but I'm keeping the home phone for the time being...at four leva a month it's still worth it.

Stopped off at Lidl on the way out of Kardjali and picked up some packets of bulbs so I have work to do tomorrow.  Went by the school to deliver the kettle so that mum and dad can have coffee in the morning in their room at the hotel and chatted to Bekir and Sally working their little socks off installing a boiler, putting in a kitchen sink and water into the house and the washing machine was going as I left.  The 'appliances of sciences'.  Men were just about to leave and I was sitting in the car when I had a call from Gouldjan saying that she was at my house to collect some face cream that I'd picked up for her from Kardjali.  Made it back to the house in about twenty minutes and she sat out on the terrace enjoying the stars.  Into the house we went, lit the fire, poured her a little wine and I opened a beer for me.  Sat and chatted for a while until the wine hit the spot, the English took a turn for the worse so I drove her home.  Made myself a couple of sandwiches since it's fairly late and not really in the mood for cooking and to be followed by a jam doughnut.....got to be done.

So LN...I'm toying with the idea of going for a walk tomorrow but I'll check out how I feel in the morning....it might just be a day for gardening...LN
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What a day....it started off gentle enough and I was promised a little walk to find a box.  I'd never heard of it before but this was my introduction to Geocashing.  By definition:  'Geocaching is the real-world treasure hunt that's happening right now, all around you. There are 2,340,219 active geocaches and over 6 million geocachers worldwide.'  So they hid and we seeked and eventually after a really hard slog up a mountain we found the box with a few treasures inside it...my instructor signed the paperwork inside it and the last visit had been made last year and my was it well hidden.  There is a clue...there is a photo taken from the site that you have to try to match to your surroundings and with the skillful eye of the instructor it was unearthed or rather unrocked in our case.  

We set off using the GPS reference but sat nav took us to the nearest point which is not necessarily a route to follow and having forgotten the crampons we had to find another way.  So back in the car and fortunately saw a man pushing a bed on a trolley obviously going somewhere so I wound down the window and he said that we had to find the way through the forest that was back in the village we'd just driven through so so much for sat nav.  We drove until the road ran out or we chickened out...not sure which and then we started to leg it up to the outcrop.  The scenery was absolutely stunning and we met a coach load of ramblers on their way down from the ancient ruins of the medieval fort but we gallantly put out best foot forward and got to the top and that's where the fun began.  As I mentioned you had to find the box and success was to hand.

So down we came and as we descended there was the thrum of an engine and a Lada Niva had made it to the last point of the trail and out they got to finish it on foot.  Well done Lada Niva and my driver was extremely jealous that this little one had made it.  Quick descent, packet of crisps and a juice drink then over to the restaurant at Kardjali dam to finish off the day.  We sat overlooking the lake eating delicious food with a bottle of beer to hand and watched the sun go down....it's been an idyllic day despite the effort required.  I can't say that I shall be taking it up as a sport but interesting introduction...LN...I'm home now and ready to get stuck into a book feeling the sort of relaxation that you get from a day in the sun, pleasant company with pleasant people and exercise...LN



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Sunday 23rd March

So what's this about a day of rest.  I was up at six, out in the garden for seven and did a couple of hours before I came in , got showered and went off to visit my student and family.  What a morning....but I did plant some bulbs, cleared part of another flower bed so I felt really good for my two hours well spent.

What a beautiful sunrise....I opened the curtains and wow...it had to be captured.

Into the car, over to my students...coffee on the terrace and it has turned more into a talkathon than a lesson but it's what she really needs.  We laugh about the little word 'to' in the phrase 'I said to her' as opposed to 'I said her' but that little word 'to' appears and disappears as quickly as it comes...  She asks me why and I say I don't know and put it down to the idiosyncrasies of English.

We chatted for a while and lunch had been prepared by her father but the salads by her sister.  Now the sister is a never stop kitchen fiend while the one that I teach is more for being taught than working in the kitchen which is something that we laugh about.  Mother and father were working in the garden but there was a flurry of activity around lunch time and everyone pulled together and it appeared.  Talked for the rest of the afternoon and we tried to decide where I had been yesterday but we couldn't find it on the map but we had fun trying.

Home for five and did a little in the garden and then came in and got my head down for an hour..I was slaughtered from the morning.  Supper cooking...barbecued pork with oven chips and peas that will be ready in a little while...wood in and I'm set for the night and LN....everything is good....now I'm down for supper...and a little beer...LN



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Wow beautiful pictures. Hope you are finding the internet better with the new antenna.  


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Thanks Sarah....this is such an easy place to take photos....nature does it for me.

Quick update tonight...I'm going over to the Librarians for supper and staying the night since it's easier to pick up the men in the morning from her house...so I know that I swore about my previous service provider but at least I could take the dongle with me and use it where I wanted but the new one is so reliable and quick with wifi throughout the house, so it's much better on a day to day basis.

Today has been work, work and more work.  The men have more or less finished the bathroom and Sally has pointed up the new wall down the lane so that I can start to knock holes in it to put the climbing shrubs in.  He's not going to like what I'm going to do.   The roses are soaking in a bucket but I don't know why I bothered....it's threatening rain for the next two days so I've moved all the plants outside from the little house and everything from the third bedroom is currently being moved to the little house workshop.  My house is no longer for storing tools as well as living.

Men are on the count down so I better get some nightclothes together....When they are ready to go...we go quickly...LN....so I'm now on my own count down..LN
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Slept over last night at the Librarian's but didn't sleep well.  She has additions to the farm, namely some little chicks that are in a dog travelling basket in the bathroom so I had a cheep, cheep, cheep as I went to the loo in the middle of the night and I apologised for disturbing them.  Little dogs started at about five thirty and the mosque struck up so the outcome is that I can't wait to get my head down tonight in my own bed.

As we left her house the heavens opened and the hail came down so I said Hail Caesar....which is my normal response to the white downpour.  It followed us to the restaurant where we picked up the men and then on to mine.  It's good in so much as those sowing crops need the downpours but please make it more of a gentle kind.  Baba Marta is true to form but as the men said...it is truly like a woman in that it not only changes day by day but hour by hour....

So we were about to set sail for Momchilgrad and there was a cry from the ranks that I had Gosti or guests and Kingdom and male companion arrived looking might I say, a little worse for wear.  The saga is that he was about to drive his car from the UK to Bulgaria but the engine collapsed before he had got very far along the way so he had the diesel money to play, so they flew to Sofia, hired a car and headed south.  Meanwhile the friend's wife is sunning herself in Cyprus with Ms. Kingdom and having a whale of a time on Kingdom's credit card.  That girl I admire....The invitation was thrown out by the boys that if we fancied a fish supper, Bulgarian style that we were to present ourselves at the Fish Restaurant in Stomanci and they would stand the bill...and more of this later...

So over to Momchilgrad and the market lady that we had earmarked for a few lev hadn't turned up because of the rain so I bought a pair of leather shoes from one of the shops, Bekir's wish list was satisfied and back to Djebel to the supermarket for refills.  We revved up the fire, sorted out the Librarian's Hotmail account and played around on the computer until it was time to take the men home.  Dropped off the boys, dropped off the Librarian and decided to take up the offer of the fish supper and went up to the restaurant.  Spoke to the owner, Kingdom had not made an appearance with his villagers so I turned round and came home.  It didn't look the type of place for a woman alone to take up refuge and wait...so I sat in the car for a while and then legged it.  Not only stood up by one but two males....but I have the feeling that those men aren't exactly standing tonight.  The visitor was shown Bulgarian hospitality of a certain kind and was suffering for it today so maybe an early night for both of them wouldn't go amiss..

Back home...fire going...I have an easy morning since the school master is picking up the men and ordering materials from my supplier and the men get delivered here later.  Sounds like a plan....so LN...it's been an intermittent day of sunshine and showers so having purloined some twigs from Momchilgrad park namely of Japonica and Mahonia....it's the perfect weather for taking cuttings.... ...LN
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I thought it was going to be a lazy morning but I remembered that Sally wanted the top landing cleared so that he could attack it with his paint brush and attack it he did.  The men were delivered this morning with my wood order from the yard and unfortunately the rain came down and it was a bit of a slow start.  Made the coffee, knocked up a breakfast for the schoolmaster and after discussing work in progress with the men and coming up with a design for a hanging clothes rail I left them to it.  It was getting things done in the right order or as we used to call it an in-box exercise and it's getting the men to follow the plan sometimes....it's rather like tunnel vision...they see the job in hand and not the whole picture.  So off to Kardjali and I took my home phone with me that's now delivering a message of 'Reduced service' now that i've cancelled the internet.   So why didn't the woman in the shop tell me that it wouldn't work after the internet was cancelled but since the school master developed a puncture in his nearside rear...we did a few errands, didn't managed to take the phone back, managed to 'acquire' some fir trees that obviously had started life very close together and need a bit of space to grow, picked up four 50 x 50 floor tiles for the kitchen worktop, stopped off in Djebel and got the puncture fixed despite not being able to provide the unlocking nut and finally to lunch in the local supermarket restaurant.

Down to the supermarket and picked up a few items and home with the greenery and straight into admiring the work that had been done and on to the next project.  Sally had slung some beams across the top landing so that he could decorate above the picture windows so I got up there without a parachute or safety net and cleaned the top windows.  The men were very impressed...didn't think that I had it in me.  

Men home...I've just down a stint and tidying and cleaning and now I'm settling in for a little beer.  No food for me....lunch is sitting quite heavily.  I'm tempted to try out my new back but I'm still waiting for the handbasin to be fitted...I might save it for another day and I'm thinking of making a new blind tomorrow...LN...it's all go here...LN



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Thursday 27th March

Five thirty start and started sorting out clothes and rooms so that the men could have a clear path to destruction.  Looked at the clock and realised that I was over due  to pick them up so quick jump into yesterday's clothes, cat's lick so to speak and into the car and over to the restaurant.  

What a busy day today.  The men have been working their little sock off, Bekir building my bathroom unit for the wash basin and Sally painting and repairing plaster so that everything looks A1 OK.  I got a load of washing out and decided that the garden was the place for me and the trees that we purloined yesterday I planted up and since my company is called Tree Tops, there are two trees now adorning the gates more or less and I decided that the martinitsas were to find themselves on the said trees.  Worked my way down the new wall and had a really good time but there is still lots to do but tomorrow I'll carry on where I finished today.  I love redesigning and now that the wall is there I have two extra yards to play with so to speak.

Kingdom arrived this afternoon and we sat in the sun with a coffee but in truth I sat...he paced around as normal...nervous energy,  He'd had a good time in Istanbul but was pleased to be back among friends.  We have a date for Saturday...over to see the school master.

So the upshot of today is that Bekir has finished the unit more or less and it's ready for final placement and tomorrow Sally is on to something new, namely a little wall or finishing the garage wall so that I can get a few plants in.  Alternatively I might ask him to dig over the garden and get my onions in....I'll see how he feels tomorrow.  Pictures of my trees and my work today will be posted tomorrow...everything came with a rush and it was tidy away and get them home and it was too dark when I got back to capture anything...LN....just demolished chicken that I'd left cooking while I took the men home with roasted vegetables....almost to die for with lashings of mayo...LN
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Now I really have to apolgise for such a late update but I have been sampling the delights of having my first bath in the new wash tub and I had great trouble getting out after I had great trouble getting in.  In the UK I had a corner bath which gave great space for elbows....this one is a little tight on so I fell in and had to heave myself out but I'm sure I'll get used to it.  I've just got to work out the boiler temperature so that I can give it a couple of top ups while I'm in there.  I did manage to work out how to control the water out swivel thing with my foot and the new tap works a treat...and that's also foot controlled....sorted.

So what sort of a day have we had?  The new bathroom unit is installed but the washbasin is not fitted.  I think there were one or two measurements that weren't quite to plan and Bekir had had enough and will get back to finishing it on Monday.  I also have to source something like linseed oil for water protection and have got the translation written down...IKEA do it but I'm not really up for a trip to Sofia for one item...it could end up with more.  Sally has filled his day sorting out the things that have been lingering for a while namely removing the old asbestos gate post, taking over my digging down the wall line and completing the task and removing the humps of soil that were blocking up the lane.  My Avatar came round this morning and invited me to a ladies' lunch party with pancakes and syrup, cake and yoghurt drink and it still amazes me how the local women can sit on the floor in such weird positions.  It must be all that working in the fields.  I didn't take photos...it would have seemed rude somehow now that I'm a local...I respect their privacy at such an event.

I've planted more roses and moved a few plants dug up by accident from under the terrace wall but one heck of a thunderstorm stopped play and I was reminded by Bekir that my insurance on Beauty ran out at midnight tonight and that the fine for not having a valid insurance was four hundred leva so off I dutifully went.  As I set off it was as if the car was being shot at and down came huge balls of hail and together with the thunder and lightening it was if I was being attacked.....not a nice feeling.  Back from Djebel, men home, chicken leg for supper and two hours in the bath...and I'd got the sense not to take the Kindle in there with me...I have been known to doze and I believe I did....now what could be nicer than that....I'm hoping that I've not blocked the drains.  LN...There's a box of biscuits calling to me from the kitchen and a little mastica tonight I think and then to bed...LN



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Saturday 29th March

Five thirty start and no interruptions to that little room at the end of the corridor...what a good night's sleep.

So I pottered around and cleared out all the gunk so that the furniture I'm picking up tomorrow can go straight into my upstairs bedroom and I can sort out after that.  My downstairs bedroom is tidied and apart from the two mattresses that are still festering in the downstairs, everything is taking shape.  Today I had a visitation from Kingdom with one of his local laddies and off we went to the school to see the lie of the land.  The local looked longingly at the pet rabbit and the loaf of bread sitting on the worktop but it was not to be.  The word barbecue was mentioned but there was none of it to be had.  

Over to mine stopping off in Djebel for provisions to prepare a meal for two hungry lads which turned out to be the reamains of the cooked chicken with mushrooms, carrots and onions in a chicken sauce and served with pasta and chunks of bread.  A little beer washed it all down and then Kingdom was off to get his packing sorted as he flies off to Cyprus tomorrow from Sofia so I reminded him that the clocks spring forward tonight....one less hour to rest his weary head after the hard time he's had here.

Went really cold this afternoon but then it warmed up so the school master and myself went off to the forest to collect a few more shrubs for the garden.  We got juniper and a few pine trees but on trying to identify the type of juniper from my encyclopedia botanic there are about forty varieties so I shall die in ignorance.  Supper was tuna mayo served with crusty bread, mastica and a little whisky on the go, the fire is roaring away and the plants have been brought back inside the little house since there has been a frost warning for the region.  Pretty cool  night, Bob Marley on the ipod, all quiet now though...LN....I'm off to find a camera cable to get some interest into this blog...LN



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Sunday 30th March

Quick Mother's day greetings to my daughter and daughter in law.....I hope you both had a beautiful day and got waited on something chronic...

Up before the school master this morning...timewise that is not for any transgressions.  Coffee and tea were the order of the morning...my breakfast was a couple of yogurts as a base for anything that I would put on the stomach later.  We sat in the kitchen and I noticed a hoopoe on the terrace so out with the camera to catch this shy bird.  

Off with the trailer and over to my student's house to pick up her father.  The clocks sprung forward last night so there was a reluctance to any sign of life from the two daughters but the mother was her usual bubbly self and the father....well he was just normal.  We sat down for coffee and cake and then off to the man who was making my furniture, with the trailer attached to the jeep so that we could accommodate all.  There was really no need.  The man was working on his motorbike when we arrived and the wardrobe and the shelf unit were still in pieces in his workshop and his excuse was that the wood was damp and he couldn't risk it.  He has now promised it for next Sunday...if it's not ready...I don't want it...the law of the jungle...I have cash, he has the potential to earn it...screws it...tough.  We did have the conducted tour though but this is getting a little stale but by all accounts he is getting married again....so maybe there's not much chance of my furniture next week...

So back to mine dropping off my student's parents on the way and I think they were expecting us for lunch but I said that we had things to do.  The Librarian had a cooker that she wanted to shift and the schoolmaster wanted one so off we went.  As it turned out she was suffering Montezuma's revenge and not in a fit state to see to our needs so had taken  to her bed.  We met up with her son and sorted out what we needed to name the cooker and I picked up a kamina for the kitchen for the winter....I was going to get one this year but there was no winter so to speak.  Now at this point there is no money changing hands since I am robbing Peter to pay Paul and goods are being delivered instead of cash....jobs a guddun.

Back to mine with loot and sorted it out.  I said goodbye to the schoolmaster and then set to in the garden and dug over a couple of beds and planted up other stuff that I'd dug up from other beds.  My Avatar paid me a visit today...once when my daughter was wishing me a happy mother's day and secondly when I was digging for victory in the new bed and she wanted to tell me that Tommy had been set upon by Semile's three dogs in her own garden and there was nothing she could do about it.  All because it is the season for male dogs to search out the females but there are several males in the pack and Tommy is an interloper.  Dug up an offshoot of my Japonica Kerria and it's now planted in my Avatar's garden....came back and did a little more digging and tidied my tools away for another day.  That hour has made such a difference....I didn't come in until seven thirty but I'd lit the fire so despite the chill outside I was toasty in.

Supper might happen....and the moment I'm not feeling the need....LN.....beautiful chilled day and I'm now the proud possessor of a trailer and it's staying here until next week when we go our attempt to pick up the said articles.  Alternatively it might be filled with bags of sheep poo for garden mulching...Semile...I have a favour to ask...LN






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Where has the month gone..I didn't realise that tomorrow I shall be looking out for the practical jokes that abound in the newspapers in the UK.  It's not a great day for humour here but I might be tempted to try one out on the men but maybe not....they might walk off the job and where would I be then?  Not worth the hassle.

Read for an hour in the night but woke up at seven thirty and so had a bit of a dash on.  Somehow the clock in the house was showing a different time than in the car so I was thoroughly confused when the watch that I was wearing had completely given up the ghost so I've still no idea if I was early, late or on time...so what the heck.  Had a few final decisions to make in the bathroom and eventually that inner sanctum will be mine but Bekir is still claiming ownership.    One more day...hopefully.  Sally has occupied himself with the final dressing on the outside garage wall and I initially thought that it would work better pointed up but looking at the stone work is would be a heck of a job so the decision was made....just bang it on to protect the stone and make it watertight.  

Set off for the school masters but had forgotten to pick up my home phone so that I could shout at the M-Tel shop so back to the house for the offending item and then to the school.  Stopped off at the Internet shop to arrange for the Librarian's connection and a morning phone call confirmed that she seems to be over the worst of her Montezuma's revenge put down to a tin of beans and pork but I think there are several funny bugs going around so it could have been anything.  Into Kardjali clutching the phone, over to the shop who couldn't give me any idea why the display was showing that I had a reduced service.  The girl asked me if I wanted a new number....I replied if I must but I didn't realise that the new number and connection would up the price by fifty percent but the rates to phone England are good so not such a bad deal.  After I'd signed the new contract I challenged her yet again as to why it wasn't working and she denied all knowledge of closing down the original connection.  I suppose they can always claim language misunderstandings.

Lunch in the chicken restaurant....picked up my Parker green ink that had been on order for a while and then we set off on rather a scenic route to an old power station that has caught an eye and not necessarily mine....photos of that will follow when I manage to acquire them.  Received a phone call from Bekir that seemed highly confusing at first.  I thought it was the internet providers for the Librarian's connection but eventually it was sorted and a new contact has been made.  Please ring Chris and we'll set up a meeting.

Home for the men for five thirty but they insisted on carrying on working until after six thirty.  Only trouble with that is that I get home and it's time for bed...not a lot of evening for me.  Fire lit, no food required...I'm stuffed from lunch, a little mastica to force the chicken down and soon to bed said Zeberdee...  All clocks have been synchronised, the new M-Tel phone has been changed to English language so at least I have some chance of setting up the rest of the programs.  LN....I'm heading down to appreciate the fire that I've got going and to have an hour or so with my book before I get my little head down...LN
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