Wednesday 31st July
Late to bed last night.....I was on a winning streak in Soda Crush and at two this morning I shut the Kindle down. I could have been going until dawn but thought it best not to. I slept OK and woke up at six thirty and headed out to the balcony to enjoy the morning. The favourite bird was the woodpecker...two were in the mulberry tree knocking seven bells out of it and there was the lazy green woodpecker strutting the garden and picking up everything in sight. He was probably on the sauce last night. I went down and made coffee and went back upstairs to secure my position on the bench and carried on with watching my garden come to life. It did come to my attention...the blasted mole had raised another couple of Vesuvius proportioned hillocks and today was the day that I was going to do something about it.
Into the Nipper for ten ten and I was over to pick up the other nipper. I hadn't bothered with breakfast so uploaded a packet of biscuits onto the passenger seat...and they remain unopened. The drive in was pretty normal, everybody jockeying for positions on the road into Kardjali but I turned off and took the back road but unfortunately there were no parking places at the pool so ended up at the pay car park. I didn't pay to go in today...I wasn't going swimming and hadn't dressed for it, the little one headed for the swimming instructor and I headed for a bench in the shade. It was a very hot day and I didn't want to bake. Around the time that the lesson was about to finish I sat on the terraces and waited for the little one to decide he'd had enough and got changed. I checked with the instructor that he was allowed to go tomorrow wince he'd paid for July and tomorrow we'll have moved on and I'm on swimming duties again. I stopped for gas and petrol on the way home, a bottle of water for the boy and back to the shop.....and with moles of the garden variety in mind I went to the hardware shop intending to get mothballs to try to keep them at bay and he came up with some mole smokes....reminiscent of the ones I used to use in the UK. I got my student's mum to give me a run down of the instructions and then we went to town on it thinking about sensible footwear, helmet, elbow length boots and safety glasses but better still would be running shoes...you have to light the touchpaper and run at least eight meters away. Wish me luck.
On the way back home I called in the shop and bought a few items and stopped off at the waterboard offices, the hot water leaky pipe in the upstairs bathroom needed to be fixed. I explained my problem to the lady int he office who I know very well and together we went down to find a water specialist, found one, he grabbed a tool box and I drove him home, he fixed the problem and I drove him back to work. Ten lev for his trouble and I now have a working tap. Unpacked the car when I arrived for the second time, tuna mayo sandwiches as a very late breakfast so I shan't be needing supper.
So tomorrow we have swimming, the final one of the year and tomorrow afternoon I'm chasing moles from the garden. LN...Better get the safety gear sorted....LN
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