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Elsa Peters
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Monday 23rd June

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Nice to have you back on line Elsa  

Trev


Thank you Trev...it's so nice to be back on line.....

So what happened today.  I woke up at silly o'clock and opened the door to the balcony and beat the hodja to his morning repertoire.  Sun wasn't up, crescent moon was out with a planet that I really must investigate but what a lovely start to the morning.  There was a nightingale singing its little heart out and a couple of birds that I still have to identify what they are.  The hoopoes were out there as well and a couple of jays were feeding on the grass.  One click from the fly screen and they took off instantly...very shy birds.

Electricity went off this morning so it was find out the camping kettle to get coffee under way.  That's the beauty of a half gas-half electric cooker, if one fails you always have the other.  It's amazing though...you know the electricity is off but you still want to turn on the light to see what you're doing...doh.  Stuck to my plan this morning and went into Djebel for nine and met with Ms Kingdom and we sat having coffee and putting the world to rights for an hour or so.  Then on to the shopping run for various DIY bits for her, coffee for her neighbour, I bought a reel of string for hoisting up my sweet peas to the front fence and a new sink drain since the frost and high temperatures had knackered the downpipe...Now fixed and all working as it should.

Took Mrs Kingdom back home as she was starting work at two threading tobacco onto twine so that it can be hung up to dry.  She's offering her services free of charge to the neighbours and they think it's Christmas...well maybe not, since they're Muslim, but the closest thing to it.  She gets fed for her work and has the opportunity to learn Bulgarian at their pace with a smattering of Turkish thrown in,  Joked with one of the locals that I was looking for yellow paint and a Taxi sign...he said that he'll look out for some.

Home for about one....eggs mayo for lunch on fresh baked bread, lazed away some of the afternoon on the computer since it was well up into the eighties and only came out to play when it had dropped.  Replanted my Japonica Kerria that I'd dug up a couple of days ago and it's now in direct line of sight with my Avatar's toilet ...her secret is safe with me.  Supper was spicy sausage with onions fried off with last night's rice followed by peaches and Mrs G's home made yoghurt. I'm feeling replete......I think there is a bottle of beer that is about to bite the dust but as for the rest of the day...chatting with Mrs Kingdom eased my troubled mind.....it's good to talk.

LN....I've had a good day and a bonfire got rid of all of the garden and toilet rubbish.....the sun has shone all day which is a first for a while....and tomorrow promises the same...LN



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Tuesday 24th June

Beautiful start again to the day and again I beat the mosque so I sat on the balcony for the sing along.  I miss Tommy joining in the chorus and he is up with the others in dog heaven.  Breakfast this morning was poached eggs on toast with fresh boiled ham that I haven't had for a long time and then into the car after pegging out the washing and over to Momchilgrad Market taking in a couple of silly little bridges that take only one car in one direction and one point five tons...I almost asked my passenger to walk and risk it on his own.

Nothing to be gained on the market except for a couple of pairs of crocks for my guest and I managed to pick up some zips for when I make the covers for my cushions.  Had a phone call from Bekir while I was walking the market and he can work at the school masters tomorrow so I went over to deliver the good news and we say out on his terrace and chewed over the fat.  Over to my little house above the eagles just to check it out and it has been about a year since I paid it a visit.  Now much has happened to it...it has lost the front door and windows and a little more of the roof but basically it's still sound.  I managed to drive all the way over to it which was a surprise because it's a bit of a topsy turvy lane but on the way over there were what appeared to be grasshoppers over the windscreen and it suddenly dawned on me that these were the locust that the helicopter was fighting hard against the other day as it clew over the hillsides.  Quite creepy...whenever you put your foot down they all raised into the air and as we drove away I got some good shots of them in the air.

So now over to the Librarian's motel for lunch and possibly a swim and the weather changed and the clouds blew over so we settled for a late lunch.  She came down to join us for a beer and then we sat in the garden and had an ice-cream and then back to mine and managed to get the washing in just before the rain started.  Fortunately it stopped just as quickly and we sat out with the beer and brandy and no need for food since lunch was hanging heavily but now the rain has started and there is thunder in them there hills.  It's been a busy day but I missed out on the swim so if the weather is good tomorrow, I'm now psyched up for it but at the moment it's blowing a gale out there.  I'll dream of lying on a sunbed and sunning myself...it might turn into reality later if the weather holds but the forecast doesn't look good for my two super heroes tackling the roof tomorrow.

So tonight chip sticks and beer on the go....LN....I have some serious munching to do...and drinking...whene were out for lunch as driver I abstain but now I'm home...time for catch-up....LN



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Hi Elsa, your house looks very sweet and amazing views.


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Wednesday 25th June

Thanks Sarah...one night I will be up there at sun set...I think it will be amazing...no...I know it will be amazing....

So this morning I woke up and took pictures of the morning and then promptly went back to sleep as you do.  I eventually got up at about seven thirty with the intention of getting Beauty in to check out the brakes and the rear lights but it was too much to contemplate.  Instead after breakfasting on fried tomatoes on toast I was out there  chopping down and de-rooting a couple or three wild plums that are so prolific round here.  I worked on them until lunchtime more or less then took myself off to my summer bedroom with a book and enough said....the mosque kicked off at lunch time and the sheep were making it hard to sleep through but eventually I went off again until fourish...what a good rest.

Back outside...there was a rumble of thunder but nothing great materialised and worked through until six removing the said plum trees until I went in to get supper of chicken wings with potatoes and onions undereay.  Everything came to fruition...bonfire, supper and now off to have a shower so that I don't smell like a bonfire when I hit my pit tonight.  I'm just hoping that my guest has left me enough water...we shall see...If I don't have a guest tomorrow...you'll know that he didn't.

LN...I'm on the red wine, the bonfire has burnt itself out and it's been a good day....hope yours has too...LN



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Thursday 26th June

Beat the sun this morning and watched it creep over the hillside and there was only one very small cloud in the sky.  Went downstairs and grabbed a coffee, took my bedroom chair onto my terrace and got in a half an hours sunbathing before the rest of the world was awake.  It was hot from the onset this morning and I was planning early morning gardening and an afternoon of rest and relaxation but as with most well laid plans...it was scuppered at nine fifteen just as I was finishing off breakfast.  My Avatar arrived and I knew she had a problem but she didn't want to ask me.  It's almost like pulling teeth but in her case it's already been done and we discussed her new uppers and downers and I told her how good they looked.  Again I asked her what the problem was and she said she didn't want to tell me but eventually she came out with it.  Her grand-daughter had received a telephone call from the school in Kardjali about her university placement in Plovdiv and she had to get her backside up to the school to sign some documents.  Now as you know, we have two buses a week, Monday and Friday and today being Thursday, not a snowball in hells chance of getting there and taxi's are out of the question....not a lot of cash around.  

So at ten we set off, into the school and she was only ten minutes or so, back to Lidl so that I get a few necessaries and came to leave and turned the ignition....nothing.  I'd rushed in and left my lights on and the battery was flat as.  Now I carry jump leads and the young man next to me looked fairly intelligent so I tried to explain using the leads as a prop what I wanted him to do but unfortunately I'd probably picked the only man in the car-park that knew zilch about cars.  Brainwave and phoned the schoolmaster for a favour and he said he had to come into Kardjali anyway which was good so we sat in the car and opposite was a garage so off I trotted and made them understand what I wanted but they said that he would be a Bulgarian five minutes and in that time the schoolmaster had arrived.  I went back to the garage to say that everything in the garden would soon be rosy again and that I didn't need their help and in quick sticks it was going again.  Dropped my passenger off and unpacking my shopping when my Avatar appears carrying rice and lamb and a dish of yogurt for out lunch.  Sat down straight away and it was delicious....

Played on the computer this afternoon after assembling a stupid little footstool from Lidl with the instructions...'Do not stand on it'.....but it does have a beautiful little carrying handle and it did only cost ten lev. Heard a bit of a rumpus and saw that Semile's cows had got over my lane and into my neighbour's garden and there was lots of noise from the cowherd and the neighbour and felt it best to hide away with the camera.  A little later I watched Semile's son shaking down the wild plums for the sheep by bashing the tree with a stick and desperately trying to get the sheep home.  Out to the garden and since it looked like rain I decided to get my trusty mower out and at least trim the top of the excuse for a lawn in front of the house and to the side.  A few drops of rain fell and there were several claps of thunder but I persevered and managed to get most of it looking like a lawn again.  Poked around in the little house garden and got some thumping good weeds out, into the house and supper was a bit of a cold affair using up lots of left overs and things with sell by dates that were rapidly running out.  Did make some fresh potato salad though so I did put a little effort in.  Lit the bonfire and got rid of today's garden and house rubbish and now about to go play Angry Birds to chill out a bit.....Beer on the go but not really in the mood tonight...feeling pretty tired and am thinking that it won't be long before my head hits the pillow....LN...I'm off to chill....LN  



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Friday 27th June

Early start this morning but not much sun to see.  It was clouded over and the breeze was cool.  Just the day to get stuck into some gardening and so I did.  The bushes that I was grubbing out are all grubbed...the bed is dug over and now it's a matter of seeing what I can plant in it to hide the bare patch but it does look so much better.

Breakfast was a fry up yet again and the rest of the bread was thrown out for the birds so it was out to get some fresh stuff this afternoon and a late lunch produced two very sleepy people but I refrained while my guest snored.  Out I went to the garden to finish off the job but the clouds gathered and then the rain came down very slowly at first but the thunder started so hence the quick blog.  We've just had one strike that took the power off so don't want to tempt fate with another...it's a few pickies and then down to start on the beer.  The evening light is fantastic and the sun is setting against the storm clouds .....the rest of the sky towards Greece is tinged with blue and bands of clouds that I don't believe the camera truly captures.....But one more strike and I'm off...it's too close for comfort.....LN



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Saturday 28th June

Up before the man in the mosque and watched the sunrise but I think he's either got a new loudspeaker or the volume is turned up...I'm not liking it ...I'll have to have a word.

As for the rest of the day I was determined to get the garden rubbish out of the way but my guest decided that he would tackle the hedge line towards the bottom where I said it was blocking out my view.  So one job done and I now had about a ton of tree trimmings to get rid of but omelette and eggs spring to mind and you definitely can't have one without breaking some.

Planted my new garden out with petunias and the mahonia that I took from Momchilgrad and threw poppy seeds over the rest and a packet of wild seeds and we'll see what comes up.  For this year is doesn't matter just so long as it self seeds next year.  Working away and there was a sudden call for the camera and under the woodpile my guest had discovered the big daddy of the toad world that was now pretending to be a stone.  What a warty creature..Also got pictures of a rather lovely beetle and for those of you who know me...I had the zoom lens on....I don't get that close to toads or beetles.

Had a visit from Reemsie with her grandson and she wanted a photo of her grand-daughter in her ball gown but despite trying various sites I didn't manage to find it...it's supposed to be on Facebook but I don't know whose and neither did they.....I gave them my email address and I might just get it tomorrow.  She also attacked my 'lipen chai' for drying to make linden tea I think it is.  Went home with a carrier bag of the stuff and I'd left off trimming it to see if any one wanted it and sure enough....someone did.  Bonfired all that needed to be burnt and I even trimmed the hedge this afternoon and that's gone to the great burnt pit in the sky.....Collected some wild cherries for supper with fresh yogurt and I've got barbecue pork chops coming to fruition with potato wedges and peas.  Not exactly gormet but I've had a busy day too.  So Premium Pils on the go from Lidl and just about to open my third....LN...down for supper...absolutely knacked...it's been a good day...LN



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