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Wednesday 11th August

Heck of a thunderstorm last night so I switched off phones and went to bed and was asleep in quicksticks.  There was some rain but not really enough to wet the garden and the only sign this morning was a damp patch on the terrace.  I made my coffee and hung the chair cushions form the balcony to dry and watched the sun come up into a clear sky and it remained that way until around eleven this morning when the clouds started gathering again.

I didn't bother with the garden but probably should have done,  More sunflowers have come out in several other beds though they're not as big as the ones in the veg garden.  I didn't bother with breakfast and was into the Nipper at ten minutes before nine and as I backed into the gap near my front wall my Avatar was walking up the road ready for action.  I loaded her in, drove to the top square and realised that I had my reading glasses on so doubled back to the house and went in for my driving glasses which made much more sense.  First stop was the cash point and she handed me the card to do the business.  I asked her how much she wanted, she told me but firstly she wanted to know how much was in the account.  I'd selected English as the language but obviously selected the wrong account and the machine told me so.  Did I want another transaction@  Yes we did and eventually I managed to get the money out and told her the balance since it's printed on the bottom of the receipt.  Next step I thought was to the office to pay for her house tax but instead she is entitled to free coal so we made out way to another office and she stopped to complete it.  I decided to move the car nearer to the office so set off and by the time that I got back she had finished and was with another lady and I think Avatar was panicking that I'd got lost.  We walked a little way, I told her to wait while I fetched the Nipper as stopped to pick her up just as the police car drove by ....and fortunately all was well.

So we set off for her brother's house, she hadn't seen him for a year and what a surprise when she saw that her sister was over from Turkey.  She hadn't seen this one for four years so had lots of catching up to do.  We sat outside in the summer kitchen and the wife prepared fruit for us but unfortunately it just encouraged the flies and I'm not too good at sharing my food.  I asked if I could take a photograph of them for her and she agreed and we said our goodbyes and back to Djebel we went and I'd now gained the grandson.  Avatar decided that she wanted Banichka for breakfast so again I parked up, the main carpark was cordoned off because of road works so everything was everywhere.  Why they don't do it at night I shall never know.  The shop was very busy and it took ages to get breakfast but my painter was in Djebel and kept Avatar company until I returned.  Back to our village and I dropped her off, put the car in the yard and went back with one of the two melons that we'd been given and we sat down to breakfast in the garden of banichka and tomatoes and I'd taken a bottle of water back with me with a lid.....again lots of flies.  

So this afternoon I put the TV on and watch nothing in particular and has a sleep.  The clouds had rolled over, it was hot, very muggy and the thunder is still rumbling around.  We had a couple of showers which did nothing for the garden so I ended up giving it a good water and hopefully it will get more overnight.  I'll deliver the photos tomorrow and probably take one down for the brother and sister later this week.  Avatar was overjoyed with the surprise.  Again it's too hot to eat or even think about food at the moment....probably tuna and potato salad later.  LN.....Nothing to do tomorrow...nice feeling......LN



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Thursday 12th August

Five thirty start this morning, I tried to get back off to sleep but to no avail.  I emerged from bed at six, made coffee and went out to the balcony, found the cushions that hadn't got damp over night with the dew and enjoyed the morning.  The woodies were out in force getting breakfast and very noisy in the process.  Firstly the call to let others know that the territory was occupied and secondly the headbanging.  I walked the garden and spotted Blue on the concrete on the terrace by the woodstore so moved a couple of the pears that had fallen nearer to him.  He hid away when I first approached but came out of his shell when I walked away and started to eat the fruit.  I did go round and make sure that the water containers were full, we'd had a little rain overnight and so didn't bother with watering the garden.

I came in and made toast for breakfast and yogurt and washed some grapes that I'd bought a couple of days ago and took half over to Avatar.  I sat in the garden with her for a while, she told me about the conversation she'd had with her sister and I told her that the photos would be delivered tomorrow.  I'm not sure if I have any frames or not so might have to make a special trip to Djebel.  By now the temperature was rising so I chose to stay indoors, I followed up on a few 'Hints' from ancestry but didn't make much headway...my heart wasn't in it.  The early morning start was getting through to me so the TV went on and I had an early morning nap and it was lunchtime when I woke up gain.  I pottered in the little house tidying up the screw jars and gardening tools, refilled the strimmers but so far there's nothing to strim.  No grass to mow and the mower does all the collecting of the seed heads but even they have slowed down.  We've been in the mid to high thirties for the last month or so and it's taking its toll on the garden and me.  I think I definitely need a pool tomorrow.

I watered the garden and gave everything a good soaking, the sunflowers are beginning to look a little sad with heads bent over so I should really be cutting the heads off and drying them for the winter food for the birds and also to get the seeds for next year.  There's a pre-wedding bash going on in the square tonight.  It's the daughter of my sheep farmer and the wedding is on Saturday so I'll have my boots blacked ready.  Unfortunately it's a very noisy affair tonight, the music is very loud and likely to go on until midnight, when the groom arrives to claim his bride all arrive by car with horns at full blast and as for fireworks, I don't know where they bought them from but it sounded as if the village was under attack from the air as well as from the land.  Perhaps that was just money talking....bigger and better than anyone else.  Tuna and potato salad for supper, a nice meal without much effort.  So now back to my Blacklist on Netflix, it's the final season and we're heading for the conclusion as to who really is the spy, who is the heroines real mother and who is her father.  Grandfather has just died, mother has just be supposedly shot but it's happened before and this could be another twist and turn in the plot...it's hard to keep up with it but I'm still trying.  

The noise seems to have died down a little, it's a good job I didn't need the car tonight, I couldn't have got out of my drive with cars parked all along the road.  LN.....Probably no bed before midnight, they've just started up again......LN




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Friday 13th August

Six start again, I made my coffee and went out to have a bonfire.  There was no wind this morning so I cleared out the empty burnt tins and got rid of the debris into the burning bucket and set fire to it.  I suddenly remembered that the hose pipe was still near the house, not down by the bonfire which is where I normally have it when I have a fire so I connected the hoses, turned the water on and continued to water the shrubs while the fire took hold and then subsided enough to put the lid on it.  I didn't stop there,,I put the garden fork to good use and cleared the bottom bed by the low wall and noticed that I had a couple of baby yuccas growing there that must have come from the old plant that I knocked over and removed the top of it.  It's reminded me to check the others for babies.

I came in around ten after watering the rest of the garden, made toast for breakfast and it's been a very lazy day.  I printed off a couple of photos for Avatar for her sister who came over for a visit and had a mare of a day trying to work out the new Microsoft word program.  What an abortion it now is and so difficult to manipulate the settings and seems so much more basic than when I used to use it for a living to deliver training documentation.  I don't think I could manage it now.  I popped over to see Avatar and a couple of the village ladies were sitting in her garden in the shade so I didn't stay long.

There's another party in full swing somewhere at the bottom of the village.  I'm not sure if it's related to last night's bash but again we had fireworks and as for my poor ladies, they've had two disturbed evenings, we're all losing out beauty sleeps.  More gardening tomorrow if the weather stays cooler, I've finished my Blacklist series and am still wondering about the end of it.  Wrong person died and not sure if they'll bring out another series to carry on where this one left off.  There is a letter unread and I for one would love to know what's in it.  LN.....I'll probably never get to know either......LN
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Saturday 14th August

It's been a day and a half today but I've got a lot done.  Six thirty start, intended doing washing which I forgot all about and remembered that I said I would deliver photographs to my Avatar's family so I set about finding frames for them/  I came up with enough and decided that I would use PowerPoint to create the images not Word as I'd tried yesterday and failed miserably.  Again it looked much different that I was used to managed to find my way round it and able to deliver photos to size that fitted the frame and it all worked out well.

I made bacon sandwiches for breakfast and set off for the village that I was delivering to at ten and fortunately they were home.  I was offered coffee but decided that I didn't want to get too involved with coffee, melon and the likes so said fond farewells, wished them a safe journey back to Turkey and I have an invite to stay whenever I want to which is good to know.  Back to Djebel and parked up on the main carparking and walked towards my picture frame shop and was accosted by my friend who's opened a new shop and she introduced me to two English people that I'd not met before.  They were staying or rather house/dog sitting in a village near Momchilgrad while the owners were taking a holiday in Greece and eventually I excused myself from the conversation and carried on to my shop and bough the picture frames.  Walking back via my friend's shop, the English people had left so she gave me some plants for the garden, I bought some flamingo picture frames from her and a present for my student's birthday which was today.  She gift wrapped it for me so with a slight diversion I popped round to her house, she wasn't in but her mother was and again with the offer of more coffee I abstained, left the gift, bought a loaf of bread from the supermarket and headed home and by not it was almost one thirty,  

I settled on the sofa with some water and an ice-cream, watched a programme about measuring noises from volcanoes to see if they are about to erupt and fell asleep, so I'll never know.  At four I thought it was time to get my backside into gear, the bus for the wedding this evening was leaving the square at five thirty and I hadn't a clue as to what I was going to wear.  Shower, hair washed and dried, found my standby outfit of navy cotton dress and my bright green velvet jacket , navy shoes and  tan leather belt and matching handbag and I was walking down to the square by five twenty.  No panic at all.  I was dragged into the first seat on the bus by a teacher friend from the higher village and off we set for Makaza hotel picking up along the way.  I'd known the bride since she was about twelve and told her so when we went to offer out congratulations and at the hotel I was told by her uncle that I was on table sixteen with the rest of the ladies from my village while the men sat at seventeen and got dutifully tanked up.  I'd remembered to take a bottle opener so I had my work cut out for me opening the bottles to save the others using forks or knives to complete the work.  

It was a very noisy affair as are all weddings here, the food was slow but had improved since the last time I was at a wedding there and we were back on the coach for eleven and home for eleven thirty and dropped at my door.  It's good that I get invited and am no longer the trophy English person but just a local.  LN....I need sleep....LN



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Sunday 15th August

Seven start, sun was already up so I sat on the balcony having my first coffee.  The second I took down to the garden with me and started gardening down the bottom clearing another patch and working out what to do next.  I feel that I've got to go into Djebel and buy some more lengths of wood to renew the garden surrounds, it's looking shabby and I'd like it done before winter though it would make more sense to do it in the spring so it's on the back burner until I decide.  I watered the garden well, as I was digging over the bottom bed it was a dust bowl but I suppose it's to be expected.  Today we had high temperatures and a high wind this afternoon, the trees were mostly horizontal.

I'd put a load of washing in the machine while I was doing the watering, came in for breakfast and went out again to peg it out.  I had toast for breakfast and the rest of the apricot yogurt while watching Gardener's World and introduced by another stand-in for Monty Don.  He must be taking another holiday!!  It was too hot for gardening so stayed inside and as per normal nodded off catching up on my late night last night, had just come round and there was a gypsy barging in through the fly screen and into the corridor.  I jumped up to meet him, in his hand he had two bed covers and said that I could have one for fifty leva.  I told him that I wasn't interested and with each demand that he left the price came down eventually to twenty and I'm still not interested....I have some to sell him.  He started to become aggressive so I had to respond and eventually he left and I followed him out after about a minute, I hadn't heard the latch go down on the gate and he'd left it open so I shut it and dropped the latch.  The last thing I wanted was tortoises out and cows in...the joys of living in the country.

I went out to empty the veg peelings into the composter and heard a strange noise coming from the porch to the little house.  At first I thought it was the grapevine being pushed against the windows by the wind but realised it wasn't so got the keys and opened the door standing well back in case a cat or dog had managed to get in there.  The house hadn't been opened for a couple of days but there is a small window that I haven't covered.  Nothing rushed out, I tried to look inside but could see nothing, the strimmers were all over the place so I braved it and went inside, heard nothing so stood by the gate and suddenly there was movement at floor level and I realised it was the once green and now blue tortoise clattering against the plastic snow shovel.  I cleared the area, got it on the shovels and deposited it down on the grass at the bottom of the steps.  I put a bowl of water down which it ignored and it set off for the low wall....and I suddenly remembered I'd got a 'seen better days' tomato so I mashed it up, put it on the grass and it took what it wanted and then moved on.

Supper is in, tonight I've got roast chicken and sweetcorn and I'll make a potato salad to go with it.  I really like the Lidl on with creme fraiche but they seem to have stopped stocking it again.  Not sure what's on the cards for tomorrow, maybe Kardjali for a bit of a top up and the pool is calling me.  LN.....Really ought to before the weather changes......LN



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Monday 16th August

Really hard job waking up this morning.  I was in one of those dreams that you don't want to come out of until you've worked out the end and I never did.  I could vaguely remember it but as I woke up it faded so I compensated with coffee and the balcony and enjoyed the morning.  It was seven thirty when I checked the clock, I was late and had an early night last night...result.

I made more coffee and took it downstairs, put the remains of last night's chicken in a plastic bowl under the wild cherry tree, watered the pots giving them a good soaking and changed the hose and let it run to sprinkle the shrubs at the bottom of the garden.  I checked on the tortoise and found Blue hiding in the garden that gets most water, almost hidden by the greenery.  That's the secret, create one or two feeding and drinking stations and despite the high temperatures they will survive.  When you think about it they have more chance inside than outside the wall.  The sheep came over from the farm while I was down the bottom of the garden and boy is it dry over there and I wonder how they managed to find anything to eat.  Nobody is out there watering.  I changed the end of the hose and moved up the garden watering as I went and it must have taken me a couple of hours or so.  Goodness knows what the water bill will come to but what's the option, some of the shrubs are mature and despite the roots going well down, it doesn't do them any good to get stressed out.  I left the hose on the maple that I'd brought from England.  It's about seven foot now and well worth preserving.  I located the garden fork at the bottom of the garden and set about weeding the rose bed and the little garden where the rhubarb was and is no more,  The weeds came out easily apart from the couch grass but it was easy digging.

I came in for some water and breakfast and ended up toast with cheese slices and it's done me through until tonight and I've found a chicken cutlet in the freezer and it's thawing as we speak.  So at two thirty I'd had enough outside, I'd moved the tomato towards tortoise with the broken shell and it waddled off towards the drinking dish, couldn't managed to get into it so I tipped it up and it ended up drinking from the ground and then off it went down the short wall.  I topped the dish up again but I need to redesign so they can walk in and wall out and get it patented.

First job was to have a shower, I'd leaked a few pints of the stuff and drank a litre of water to top myself up again.  With the daws open it had stayed quite cool in the house so I settled on the sofa, nodded off for about half an hour and settled down with sudoku trying to beat my previously set records but without success.  I didn't bother with the pool, it was just too much effort to drive to the other side of Kardjali.

Half six and about to cook my supper and will probably make it into sandwich.  I've just checked out the weather and again it's going to be in the mid thirties tomorrow so more of the same.  I guess another shower before bedtime.  LN....Kitchen calls.....LN



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Tuesday 17th August

Six thirty start and out to the balcony with my coffee and took the iPad with me and after doing the normal check-ups to see how the  world was doing I went back into my own and played several games of sudoku.  The world still appears to be going mad and fortunately it's not really affecting my little world.  I went down to make breakfast of beans of toast and moved to the lounge in front of the TV and watch some Good Morning and then had to turn it off.  Two female presenters who turned into Rottweiler fish wives baying for one of the government ministers blood, spouting statements from the opposition which are always suspect and I found the off switch.  They then had another female presenter who mispronounced Metropolitan...where do they get them from.  Diversity has a lot to answer for.

Breakfast over I washed up and found myself on the wrong end of the hoover deciding that cleaning it out would make it more effective and it did.  Not sure how much I lost up it but that will be found out at the next emptying. I cleared the chest next to the wardrobe and sorted out the bedding that is waiting for the next bed change, moved into the third bedroom and unfortunately fell into the trap that clearing one space and upsetting another so the hoover is still on the landing, the clothes are still waiting for sorting for recycling and some pictures are ready for framing.  Diverse but much too hot to be outside.  I settled again in the lounge and had my afternoon nap which was much longer that normal but much needed, the hot weather takes if out of you.  The garden is watered, I found Rosy and cracked shell Blue in the top garden and filled up the water containers.  There was some in there but it had stood all day so it needed freshening up.  Rosy shot up to the top of the garden while the other one legged it down to the bottom where there is much more greenery to get stuck in to.

I must do something tomorrow...I'm feeling housebound, self inflicted and in my own hands so Kardjali is on the cards.  I also have the urge to go up to the second hand warehouse, not sure what the pull is my there might be something waiting for me.   LN.....Shower time, I need to wash my hair through......LN
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Wednesday 18th August

Well thank goodness it's been a little cooler today but unfortunately no air at all.  It's very still as if something is going to happen, I only hope it doesn't rain.  I had the normal morning with coffee on the balcony and by ten I was beginning to think that I should be doing something and start my day.  I decided to write my shopping list and really couldn't come up with enough to warrant a trip into Kardjali.  I broke it down into 'immediate' and 'on the list' but I'd only managed four items of immediate and they didn't actually equate to 'urgent' so instead I carried on sorting out clothes after having the rest of the can of beans for breakfast.

The forever needful garden was watered and all seems to be well.  I was about to remove the sunflowers and dry off the heads for the birds but they've started putting up secondary  flowers so I want them to live out their lives.  Blue 'cracked shell' was out in the midday sun so I brought the drinking bowl to it but it supped for a while then headed down the garden at the rate of knots.  Green Goddess was spotted at the bottom of the garden and Rosy seems to have gone AWOL.  At least I didn't hear any strange noises coming form the little house and I've kept the door locked.  I'm still not sure how it got in there.

I settled on the sofa but no sleep today, when I went to bed last night after a late bath there wasn't an ounce of sleep in me and it was around two when I eventually put the light out.  I made the decision to move the bookcase in the lounge along the wall so that the curtains hanging down in the corner would fit in the gap.  I also came up with an ingenious way to get the curtains onto the curtain pole, it's very heavy old water pipe so I reckoned I could lift the rail of the support and rest it on the top of the door making it easier to hang the curtains.  Next step was to put the pole back on the support and one up and one to go.  It was at this point that I realised that they could probably do with washing so down it came again, the steps went back in the porch and both curtains are now on the washing line.  I also thought that they might shrink and I'll check that out before I rehang tomorrow.  It's all go in this neck of the woods.

Supper tonight I thought was going to be pork ribs but there wasn't a bone in sight so now sure which part of the pig it came from.  It was tasty but dry and I'd sliced up two potatoes very thinly and put those in the over.  They turned out like fat crisps and I served them up with mayo but it got binned, it was a new one but didn't taste that good.  I'm thinking that I having to go for a different variety...the plastic pots are not keepers.

So tomorrow I'm remeasuring curtains to see if I need to sort out the length before I hang them.  I haven't watered the garden tonight....you never know Norman, it just might rain.  LN....My day was pretty well filled....LN



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Thursday 19th August

Silly night again.  I fell sleep during the repair shop and woke up to the news discussing the Afghanistan problems with bullets flying and it has somehow wrapped itself into my dream.  I suddenly realised where I was, switched the TV off and made my way up the stairs and fell straight asleep again.  It's quite a coincidence that I've started watching a Netflix about the Capitol being bombed and the forty second in line is now the President of the United States and making decisions that no one really wants...he's not following the script.

I meandered around a little, didn't have any breakfast, moved on to the balcony and performed my morning ritual of doing nothing without a pang of guilt and heard a screech of brakes  and knew that visitor had arrived.  I headed down stairs and unlocked the 'drawbridge' and it was who I expected it to be so went to the kitchen and put the kettle on to make coffee.  We went out to the terrace, he'd come over to borrow my acrow-prop for a minor repair to his property so I opened up the little house and found it in the 'kitchen', the lump hammer removed the wooden baseplate and nails from the wood so that he didn't damage his car seats.  Back to the terrace, we put the world to rights, I had a brain wave that if Bekir wasn't working he could give him a hand to get the job done and it was arranged that Bekir would go to his house when Bekir had finished for the day.  One more off the list.  I also asked for help and the wooden screen is now moved to the back of the garage so that I can store the logs that need splitting.  It rained last night so I'd like to get them under cover.  Off he went around twelve so I made the decision to go into Kardjali armed with my shopping list.

I took the back lane to the Makaza road, got flashed by drivers coming the other way advising me that there was a police radar ahead so maintained my normal sixty through the sixty signs.  Lots of traffic going into Kardjali so parked up near the House of Culture, went to my leva shop for the picture frames and bough a couple of bicycle type locks that might be useful for the gate overnight, more as a hindrance than a preventative.  I carried on to the material shop and bought the material for covering the two sofas in the lounge, went into the second hand shop along the street and they had a fitted sheet in the colour that I'd just bought so had it weighed up and paid the girl and set off for Lidl.  Blow me down, they had fitted sheets of the same colour for nine leva each so bought two....some thing might work and at least I have choices.  Did my food shopping, headed home through Djebel this time, had a few words with my student's mum and made my excuses by saying that I'd got frozen food an ice-cream in the Nipper and didn't want to end up eating twelve small ice-creams with a spoon.  Shopping away, curtains in from the line, sheets washed and hung out and it looks like it might rain again overnight.  We had a similar sky to last night that seemed to foretell of impeding doom but we only had rain.  I've not watered the garden and I've got my fingers crossed.  I've had a yogurt for supper and that should do me until breakfast.  LN....Too hot to eat......LN
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Friday 20th August

Another disturbed night and I woke early so have felt jaded for most of the day.  I had my coffee on the balcony as per normal, settled for the second cup in the same place and eventually found my way downstairs and out to water the garden.  Unfortunately it didn't rain last night as I was hoping for and by this morning everything was 'crispy' and definitely in need.  I came in and made tomatoes on toast for breakfast, went out with the intention of getting the loppers out and trimming back some of the branches of the acacia so that I could see more of the hillside but I forgot what I was about and ended up removing the stalks from the day lilies and some of the dried leaves and generally tidying up the beds.  I was going to start to move the uncut logs into the space in the garage and swept it out ready to clear up the old leaves and general dust but they're still waiting to be split and after thinking it through it's better that they are split before they get stored.

Blue was in his usual place down by the bonfire bed and I think he's staking his claim for his winter abode.  It's where he was last year.  Rosy was tramping along the low wall gardens and stopped at the watering hole for intake and then hid in the honeysuckle near the well.  Nobody with any sense was out and about today, another one up in the high thirties,

The tele went on this afternoon and I settled down to cream cheese and bread sticks, tidied away the evidence and promptly got my head down for an hour or so.  Came up for air and a yogurt, collected one of the sheets from the line and covered the smaller of the two sofas in the lounge to see if I'd made the right choice of colours.  I changed the cushions around and am fairly pleased with the result and the other ones sheets can be used on the beds so won't be wasted.

I've just come in from watering for the second time today, looks like we've got the makings of a full moon and it's really shining brightly so better draw the curtains in the bedroom tonight.  I pulled out a few weeds from round the red hot pokers and watered them well and looks like I've got quite a few new plants at the base of the originals.  Time to find something for supper and it's likely to be something easy, I'm out of mayo so it won't be tuna.  LN....Decisions, decisions.....LN



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