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Monday 1st November

White rabbits everyone and it was a pretty dull old morning.  It looked like we'd had a little rain overnight, it had dried up but looked to be threatening more.  Black as pitch this morning which it is going to be now that the clocks have been messed around with.  I stayed in bed where it was warm , eventually got out and made coffee, I wasn't having much success with Sudoku so gave up, got dressed for Kardjali, made boiled eggs for breakfast with toast and sat in the stairwell at the table.  I threw some bread out for the cats and the black one was looking longingly at me as if to ask if that was all it was getting and I felt really bad but I'd nothing else to give it.  Washed up after breakfast, changed my sweater and put a thicker one on, I'd noticed how cold and damp it was when I'd put the bread out....wrong.

I set off for Kardjali around nine thirty and took the main road not the lane.  It had started to rain and as I drove through Djebel it was heaving mainly due to market day.  We have so many more people her at the moment, most of the ones that normally work in the rest of Europe are here or others are over from Turkey and working on houses here.  Unfortunately they expect European wages which is not good for the locals.  I parked up outside the Home Phone shop to see if there was a bill to pay but it's not due for a couple of days.  It's a very silly system, you can't pay in advance so I'll probably end up paying over the internet or the phone.  I legged it down to the key cutters for another couple of main door keys which he was able to do, couldn't manage to do the outside door key and doesn't do car keys....I only have one for the Nipper.  I carried on to the top of town and visited my cheapy shop and managed to pick up a zippy cardigan for my female student.  She complained that I never buy her anything when I see it in her size so now I've spent just under two leva on it and I hope she likes it.  Over to Kaufland for a few things including cat food and don't ask, then to Lidl and then home for three thirty.

I'd been a bit stressed in town......I'd dressed for cold and damp and it had turned out hot and sunny, a beautiful day and I'd got far too many clothes on and no chance of taking any off.  Shopping unpacked and put away, log basket filled up and I sat watching Transponder TV and eventually nodded off waking up cold, in the dark so first job was to light the fire which is now going well.  Supper is in the oven, I picked up a cheesy macaroni bake from Lidl and it's three portions so I'm hoping I leave two for another day.  I would have taken it over to Avatar but it's got ham in it and not fit for human consumption according to her religion.  House is beginning to warm up and so am I with a huge cardigan on,  Student tomorrow afternoon but otherwise it's going to be a morning of collecting the rest of the leaves from the yard and garden.  LN....Let's see if cat likes cat food....LN

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Tuesday 2nd November

Rain, rain, go away...it was throwing it down.  Not a bad start though, there was pink sky, gentle morning but the dark clouds were lingering over Greece and I think those were the ones that delivered their load.  I played around for a while, dressed for the garden and work and the first job was to turn the water off and that uncovered another job that I have to do.  The covering for the water meter has rotted and so needs replacing but that's a job for tomorrow.  As I walked to the water clock pit I notice the black cat so I thought I'd try it on the food that I'd bought yesterday.  It munched and crunched on it and I left it to it, back to the job in hand.  I tried to removed the old shut off valve and it disintegrated completely leaving the screw end in the wall connector which meant that I had to drive to Djebel to get a new one. While I was in the shop I bought one of the plastic fittings but there was no way it would do the job and I decided to remove the complete cistern now that I could cut off the water supply.  

By now it was heading on for one so I settled down to watch some tv, Avatar came round to try one of the socks that she's knitting for me to see how much more of the foot she has to do before she starts on the heel turn.  She stayed for a while which was nice, she told me that she'd gone into Djebel yesterday with some of the ladies from the village, two of them went to the doctors and they were ages and Avatar said that she almost came back in a taxi but eventually they all got together again and made their way to the village.  I had my student at three this afternoon so took the lid from the toilet cistern attached to the plastic insert that makes everything work and the part that he'd let me bring back to see if it fitted.  He hadn't got any others so suggested that I took the whole cistern in tomorrow but it would make it a standard toilet not a double flush.  I left the shop, went to the shop for my student, mentioned the problems with my toilet and her husband came down to one of the other shops with me, they had loads of different types and I came away with one of them and according to the instructions, tighten up the screws and all should work.  I suddenly noticed when I came to the lesson that I'd left my folder on the table so the lesson was 'interesting' but we spent a lot of time on his homework, he'd done loads.

Lesson over and homeward bound, I put the bits together but I think I need to have another go when I'm not so tired and I need to spend time cleaning the debris from under the rubber grommets to make sure that they don't leak and that's a job for tomorrow.  Supper time and I'm not sure what I fancy.  The rest of the cheese and macaroni bake might be for what I now know to be two black cats, it's the first time I've spotted them together.  Toilet is the focus of the day tomorrow and the leaves if I get round to it although a whole lot of new ones have come down with the wind and rain today.  LN.....Another skill for my CV...water maester.....if I manage to fix the leaks....LN



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Wednesday3rd November

It was an early start and at seven I was once again tackling the toilet.  Last night it appeared that the holes had been blocked but as they say, I lot of water can get through a little hole.  So I knew what I had to do, firstly make sure that all the screw and washers needed tightening until they could tighten no more.  No visibility of the bottom of the garden this morning, it was dull, damp and I thought it was set for the rest of the day but at lunchtime it started to brighten up and it's been a cracking day giving up a beautiful sunset.

So I took the toilet apart, changed the washers, moved everything round including the big washers between the cistern and the toilet bowl.  I put the two parts together and ended up taking them apart again...the water sprung forth from different places and by now I was getting tired of the whole performance but determined to achieve success/  My mood went even lower, I noticed that the smaller of my two diamond earrings was missing from my right ear.  First search was tight roll neck jumpers that I put on and taken off, the bed was given the once over.  No luck so I put it to the back of my mind and on my way t the bathroom I spotted it on the carpet and a wave of relief overcame me.  I found other earrings out and took one of the backs and used that to secure it where it belonged.  So back to the work in hand and now I had no leaks from the toilet but I'd replaced  the water inlet pipe coming out of the wall and going back to the bedroom I spotted the back of the earring on the carpet.  How lucky am I.

Of course all this taking apart and putting it back together entailed turning the water on and off and unfortunately the wooden surround had a white mould growing all over it and before winter, I really have to insulate.  The wooden boards are all removed and burnt, I've had an epiphany moment, I'm going to use a plastic crate upside down to cover the water clock. it's going to be insulated inside and out with polystyrene and have a handle at the top so that the people that read the meter can remove and replace with little effort,  The crate is cut to shape so that the pipes are free and not under pressure and I shall probably fix the polystyrene with spray glue.  Where do these ideas come from?...Haven't a clue and pictures to follow.  Avatar came over and delivered a pair of socks that she'd knitted for me out of the wool that I'd given her when I was having a sort out.  They fit really well and will only come out when it's really cold because they're not very hard wearing.

So to sum up the day...the toilet is done and without leaks, the water inlet has to be done again but I'd had enough to it for today, the water clock cubby hole will be finished tomorrow and I know how I'm going to do it.....and that's half the battle.  I came in at five thirty, bonfire was going well, I lit the fire and that's going well, supper isn't going to happen so that goes towards the diet and those leaves still need gathering up but looking at my tree in the yard, there's still a lot to come down.  LN......It's been a good day despite the frustration......LN



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Thursday 4th November

Again another five start but at least I went to bed early so got most of my zzz's in.  I made coffee and played a few games but at seven I was outside, turning off the water and about to tackle the overnight leaks.  I knew that the water inlet had to be done again and fortunately I put a towel under it last night so it didn't spread everywhere and the second one was down one of the screws that takes the rubber bung / washer that's screwed in place and then that same screw goes through the holes in the cistern and into the toilet bowl.  Easy, water off, bolts undone from underneath, cistern removed, removed the offending bung/washer, replace washer and screw into place, reattach to the toilet and job's guddun.  As for the inlet pipe there are three areas that can leak and the problem was getting it horizontal but instead it's now vertical.  I'm going to wait for a water specialist for any reason to slip this on to the 'jobs that need doing' and he'll never notice.

This took me until twelve thirty more or less, the outside water clock hole is covered more or less and I set about starting on the winter insulation idea that I'd had yesterday. I went up to the second level of the little house and found the sheets of polystyrene insulation and threw three sheets down along with some gutter supports that I though of using for handles so that the operatives can get it out easily to read the meter.  I started to look for the spray adhesive to attach the polystyrene sheets to the crate but could I find it?....could I buggery and I guess I've put it somewhere safe so I phone my supplier, she had it in stock and I drove into Djebel for a new lot.  I bet I find it tomorrow when I'm looking for something else.  I stopped off at the supermarket for bread and noticed that they'd started stocking profiteroles again so this afternoon has been very pleasant.  It was three thirty when I got back so I made coffee, rationed myself to four profiteroles and managed to log into Netflix which for some reason had gone AWOL. I selected my name and it came up with 'suggested for you'....and it's season nine of the Blacklist and you can guess what I did this afternoon... totally rude not to.

Chicken legs in the oven at five, veg just about to go in for roasting and tonight I'm feeding my Avatar.  The weather has been so good today that I should really be gardening, the leaves are going nowhere without I intervene.  The yard is covered and so is most of the lawn and I've also got a very invasive weed that's doing very well that needs attention and burning.  I'm a little early tonight but at least the toilet saga has come to an end for now.  I still have to replace the water shut off part of the kit but it appears to be an intermittent fault on the existing. Only need to use the cut off valve to access the part and no screw to the cistern only the water inlet hole.  I might even uncouple it and see if they've got one tomorrow...maybe I'm a little too confident....I'll let you know tomorrow.  LN.....Another successful day and the Blacklist is back.....LN
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Friday 5th November

Five start but I settled down again for an hour or so but like yesterday, I didn't feel too good so went down and took my blood pressure, it was up on normal so I made the decision to go see my doctor.  I was washed and dressed and in the Nipper by eight thirty and arrived in Kardjali for nine, found a free parking place which was just as well.  The nurse that usually helps the doctor and keeps her from frizzling out completely was sick so she was whizzing around and being very authorative.  I normally 'catch her eye' and I dragged in but some patients  seemed to have tickets with times written on them so I waited, and waited and waited.  I think the system in place introduced since my last visit and probably bought about by Covid is that you now have to phone up for an appointment and if you don't, you're lucky to get seen and I was lucky.

She took my blood pressure, said that it was high and asked me what the name of my tablets were.  Obviously they don't take a record of the prescription and I didn't know so we went through the process of her trying them against my back to see which would suit me best....and she came up with one and I've got to regulate the dose to meet my needs and take a baby aspirin to see if they do the trick.  If not it's back to the drawing board Cecil.  I picked my tablets up from the chemist, dropped them off at the Nipper. paid my home phone bill, a quick visit round the cheapy shop, chicken legs for Avatar since they were on offer and back to Djebel for two or thereabouts.  I  stopped at the plumbing shop and got the water inlet part for the cistern, the other one was playing up and water was pouring down the pan so to speak, now everything works as it should so well worth the effort.

Chicken legs delivered, fire going well, made a chicken sandwich from the remains of last night's chicken so really don't need anything else tonight. High blood pressure makes me think very carefully about my diet and I really should take more care and cut down on the cholesterol goodies. LN......Leaf clearing tomorrow, lots more down....  LN
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Saturday 6th November

Not a bad night's sleep, six thirty start and the inside/outside weather station managed to keep the right time after I adjusted it yesterday.  It was linking with somewhere overnight and changing it by an hour but fingers crossed, I've managed to sort it.  I stuck to water this morning and didn't bother with coffee, it's my new regime after going to see the doctor yesterday for my blood pressure...time I started taking care again now that I'm not knocking up the necessary steps to keep my Fitbit happy.  Cornflakes for breakfast and followed it with my new tablet from the doctor and around eleven ten thirty I looked as if I'd had one to many Botox on my lower lip and I decided to get a translation of the instructions that came with the tablets and possible side effects and yes...this was one of them.  The instruction was to consult your doctor or pharmacist immediately and as I read further through the likely side effects I headed into Djebel to find the chemist and fortunately even the girls behind the counters are all trained and knowledgeable.  I settled her nerves by asking if she spoke a little English which she said she didn't but I find it makes there more aware that the verb tenses might be off but I'm doing my best.  I showed her the packet and said that I'd had the tablets yesterday from the doctor, lifted my face mask and she said only one word....allergia....and her instructions were not to take any more and to drink lots of water to flush it from my system.  She said that it looked like I'd had Botox but I replied that it the top lip was done it might look alright but the current situation wasn't good.  

I drove home, drank almost a litre of water through a straw since it kept dribbling out of the sides when I used a glass and it's gone down quite a lot but it is six so it should have done.  I got on with some jobs, raked up the leaves and deposited them over the wall and the cows might like them.  They're still falling and won't stop until the first hard frost and they'll all be down and that's destined to happen on Thursday according to Accuweather.  The leaves from the lawn I've piled up against the wall which should rot down nicely over the winter putting back into the soil.  I came in and settled down on the sofa watching a new found Netflix and obviously nodded off for an hour or so and felt much better for it.

I went into the little house and started filling the crate with polystyrene cutting it down to fit the crate for the water clock hole.  I found some plastic line that I've used to secure the polythene to the crate and so far so good but the light was failing so I locked up and came in at five thirty.  Fire is lit and I had to remember to close the windows since they've been open for most of the day and supper is in the oven.  Strictly tonight, let's see how the television behaves itself.   LN....or rather now Transponder behaves itself.....LN



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Sunday 7th November

Usual morning routine.  Fortunately the lip has subsided but I've still got slight swelling along the jaw line to the one side. It was a very misty morning and stayed that way until around lunchtime but the sun didn't really break thought at all.  Cornflakes again for breakfast and no coffee today and can't say that I've missed it and am sticking mainly to water and some apple juice.  I lit the fire and the house felt very cosy, it wasn't really necessary but made me feel better.

Visitors around ten thirty and they stayed for an hour or so and I settled down to watch Netflix.  I'd started to watch Downton Abbey before they arrived and finished that off and then fell upon the story of Freddy Mercury and Queen and it was a film I'd not seen before despite the hype surrounding it.  Fascinating character.  Had a nap this afternoon and was surprised when my Avatar came on to the terrace and I saw her through the lounge window. She'd come to check up on me to see how my lip was behaving today.  We chatted at the gate and at that Haciber came to join us, she doesn't like to miss anything. I went on to the computer this afternoon and wrote and email regarding my subscription to my ancestry lot, they've not comeback to me about taking the payment and it's getting on for a month now and again, my account has been suspended.  Let's see what they come back with this time.

I watched Strictly results and Adam has gone over Gordon Ramsey's daughter and unfortunately it's got to the point of anyone could go out of the competition....and still I don't have a favourite.  Doctor's tomorrow early, I tried to book online an appointment for the Polyclinic and it looks like an American system has been put in place requesting insurance details which no one will understand since it has to be completed in English.  Another pot of money to someone.  LN....Funny old day.....LN
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Monday 8th November

Shower and hair washed and in the Nipper by seven thirty and heading to Kardjali and the Polyclinic.  I was looking forward to tackling the doctor booking system and I did.  Quite a queue formed as we worked through the process and eventually I came out of it with a telephone number for next time and a ticket for my appointment....result.  Unfortunately it was for eleven twenty so I filled up the time reading the Kindle and playing Sudoku and relaxing before she took my blood pressure again.  I actually got pushed forward by a local so was much earlier, I told her that I was allergic to the tablets she'd prescribed on Friday and obviously to the others because I'd only had a slight reaction before but I'd only taken half a tablet.  I showed her the photograph that I'd taken of my trout pout and now she was finding more tablets and again putting them against my spine for suitability but after the last fiasco, not sure it was the method to use.

Back in the car and stopped off at Djebel to get the Nipper winter checked and it's fine, the chemist provided the new tablets and the assistant asked me how I'd got on.  I said that it these gave me a problem like a swollen upper lip then I'd take one of the old tablets to have a real trout pout. I carried on home, parked up and walked over to Avatar's house and sat in the sun with her and Beyser.  It was a beautiful day.  I made my phone call to my ancestry company to follow up my email and got another, 'I'll escalate the problem' and I let fly.  I asked to be transferred to her supervisor and she replied that she worked from home so couldn't.  I said I expected this to come to a conclusion today and it has....the supervisor sent me a link, I entered the details and the card went through and I didn't pay for the last month of pathetic attempt to resolve the issue.  I emailed her and told her that it had worked that she should pass this info on to the rest of the team and I would be pleased if the whole fiasco could be used for training purposes.  Cheeky and then she told me that she was giving me a month's free and I checked my account and there it was.  Some decency at last.

No student tomorrow, he's playing football for Kardjali in Plovdiv, he's so proud to be playing for the team.  LN.....Stress has lifted today......LN



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Tuesday 9th November

Five thirty start, games and Sudoku and bottle of water.....Coffee is kept for later in the day now, taking a blood pressure tablet with a cup of coffee is not advised.  A load of washing in the machine while the cheap rate is in operation and it's been on the airer all day, no chance of putting outside, it's been a dull and miserable day.  I phoned my daughter just after seven to wish her a good morning and I got her answer phone.  I left a message saying that it wasn't a mistake, there was nothing wrong and it was just to wish her a good morning and hope she had a happy day.  She phoned me back and my beautiful sleepy offspring told me that it was just too early and it took me back to when I virtually had to heave her out of bed to get her to college.  She told me that she was thinking about me last night after a phone call from my son saying that he'd had a super chat with me a few days ago so obviously the vibes had got through.

I washed and dressed and was cooking my poached egg on toast at seven thirty and washing up by eight and the day was all mine.  I tidy the house and untidied the chest in the downstairs bedroom looking for bubble wrap to complete the water clock insulation and found plenty.  I wonder at times why I store such stuff but it eventually seems the light of day and comes in useful.  So I headed into the little house clutching the bubble wrap and went to the yard to pick up the part completed insulation pack.  I must have spent a couple of hours or so threading plastic cord through the polystyrene and  bubble wrap securing it in place and used some glue to hold in the edges.  Unfortunately I noticed that the glue was melting some of the polystyrene so it was used with caution after that.  It's all done and I even made a lifting handle out of cord so it's easier for the clock readers when they come round.  Unfortunately my plans for the lid have had to go on hold.  The polycarbon  sheet that I had was too small after I took the old wood from the surround so it's back to the drawing board.  Instead I renewed the middle plank that had rotted away and used the existing covering it all with wood preservative and nailing on old car rubber mats.  The new lid will be done but I need stronger nails, the wood is so dry that it's bending nails as I'm knocking them in so I gave up and it's for another day. If the temperature goes down as predicted, it's frost proof.

I sat down for five minutes at the table in the stairwell and heard a clunk.  It was a new robin redbreast who didn't know about windows and that he couldn't fly through them.  I went out to the conservatory and there he was lying very crumpled on the concrete so I went out, got my cow stick and gently prodded hi and managed to get him on his feet.  Worried that the cats might get him I got him into a plastic box and put him on the bird table and he must have sat there for a good twenty minutes so I went out again and this time he flew straight for the window again and ended up on the window ledge behind the bench.  I went back inside so I could watch him, thought about moving him back to the bird table and suddenly, he took off, landed on the little house balcony rail and then off to the mulberry not to be seen again.  I thought about the kiss of life but the stick did it and helped bring him to his senses although he might never be the same again.

So out again and tidied the workshop, raked up the leaves that had fallen in the yard and threw them over the wall.  I also moved a small pile of logs that had sat close to the little house porch and they're now drying off in the garage and will be the first to get burnt...it's called tidying for winter.  Next job is to empty the water container in the yard into plastic bottles to water the plants overwintering in the little house, dismantle the pipework and store the container in the little house. It's strong but I normally bring it in, don't want it to freeze and split.

Tools away in by four thirty and I was heading with the log container for the wood store when I was surprised by a young lady in the yard who handed me some pancakes.  She said that they were because her grandmother had passed away forty days ago and it's the a tradition so I thanked her in Bulgarian, said that I understood the reason behind the gift and off she went.  I brought them in the house and went back, filled up the log basket and noticed that she hadn't put the latch down over the gate and then forgot all about it and  I've just remembered and been out to close it properly and my goodness, it's blowing a Hooley out there.  I've just picked up one of the large lemon trees that the wind's blown over and put it by the lounge window out of the wind.  It's going to be a rough night.  I lit the fire at four thirty and it's going well.  The house is so cosy after the wood burner's been going for a while.

No supper for me...I had the pancakes while they were still warm with pine tip syrup made my one of my ladies.  It's an acquired taste and would have had cream with them but I'm regulating my fat intake.  Student tomorrow so I'll find some new texts for us.  LN....As a side-line, I slept through University Challenge again....doh....LN



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Wednesday 10th November

So managed to stay awake last night and even stayed awake for the 'Who do you think you are' and the amazing thing about the program was the amount of outfits that she managed to get into an hour.  I think it hits home when you find that some of your relatives ended up in the workhouse, infant mortality was rife and somehow people survived.  I was in bed for midnight and woke up at three thirty with not an ounce of sleep in me so did my usual on the Kindle and eventually got  my head down at five waking up for the second time at seven thirty.  The rest of the morning was a mishmash and I achieved a lot like cleaning off the kitchen window sill, moving the candles for emergency power failures under the table by the woodburner and tidying up the hidey hole where I store my rubbish sack roles and kitchen foil.  I fancied breakfast and decided on poached egg on toast and then despite taking the freezer apart, there was no bread so I made a cheese omelette instead.  Sun shining this morning and beautifully warm where I sat eating my breakfast,  

By now it was getting on for ten thirty so I remembered that Avatar had asked me for paper for lighting her fire so I delivered technology in the form of fire lighters and she'd never seen them before.  She was making bread in a pan over the soon to be extinguished fire.  She hadn't got any starter wood so I opened up the packet, took a firelighter out, out the wood she had round it and lit it and within minutes it was warming up the oven to put the bread in.  She was determined to pay me for them so I suggested that she saw how she got on with them, it she wanted more then she would pay for them and this was agreed upon.

I came home and started to search for a suitable text for my student and all I could come up with was 'The Little Red Hen'.  It worked and I already had one other that we went through and the homework was to write an essay on he difference between the humming bird of the text and another bird that he knew of so I advised him do five differences between the text and his budgie and he'll manage that.  He's off to play football tonight again and I think that was on his mind but I hope he's wearing thermals tonight, the temperature has really dropped.

Called at the supermarket and bought bread and a box of truffles, sturdy nails from the hardware, picked up my shepherd on his way home, parked up, lit the fire that I'd laid this afternoon and put the chicken leg with onions and potato in the oven for supper.  Nothing on the agenda for tomorrow but I'm sure I'll find something to do.  LN.....Supper should be ready soon......LN
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