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Friday 1st April

A really early start so at five thirty I was making hot water for my morning beverage, checking out my email and playing sudoku.  I thought I'd make up for it with a snooze this afternoon but it didn't work out that way.  I washed and dressed at around seven thirty, sorted the fire out ready for tonight and had a banana and yogurt which kept me going until the bugs started biting around ten and then I was in for a sausage and egg sandwich...it just had to be done.

My morning was taken up with planting up more seeds, sorting out more plants ready for going outside and planting the dianthus that I bought yesterday.  The little fir tree was to replace the one that the drought and winter frost had savaged to the point of extinction.  When the wind got up outside, I moved into the porch and tidied off the shelving and getting rid of those things that you think you'll need later...and never do.  I sorted the rest of the seeds out and realised that the zinnia ones that I have are probably very old so need to head into Djebel and buy new ones, the sunflowers are bursting through, I have about thirty up already so I should have enough to fill a section of the veg garden like I did last year.  

I came in around four and lit the fire and the rest of the afternoon I've been binging on the second season of the series that I discovered yesterday.  The fire's going well and cheers up an otherwise dull outlook but at least the wind has dropped.  Nothing on the agenda for tomorrow, I might go and buy the seeds from Djebel but I shan't be going further afield.  If that sun comes out...I might even be gardening,  LN.....We need a few more sunny days......LN



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Saturday 2nd April

Reasonable sunrise this morning, and reasonable for the rest of the day with intermittent clouds but that wind has been evil all day.  I checked mid morning and found various items scattered around the garden, a bucket containing one of the yuccas I'd removed from the parent plant was lying on the terrace....it's now back in its bucket and will get planted out tomorrow.  The sun was very pleasant on the house and I've been in a lightweight sweater all day but outside, completely different story.

I fried off half of one of the sausages I had left and had it with a fried egg for breakfast, the other one and a half I removed the skin, cut into chunks, sliced up a couple of onions and fried them off lightly and put them in the slow cooker with a carton of passata.  That was going to be supper for tonight and there would be enough for Avatar if she wanted it.  I added a can of cannelloni beans later to fill it out and had planned to serve it with pasta.  I went over to see Avatar to see if she wanted me to go to the cash point and she said that she was down to her last thirty five leva but that she was OK.  I asked her for the receipt that I have her last time and explained that she didn't have to wait for her pension to be paid into the bank, that she had money in there so could take it out at any time and showed her where to find the balance on the receipt, I forget that it's all new to her.  I also tried to change her clock to the correct day, date and time since the time change and thought that by pressing reset it would be a simple process.  Unfortunately the clock was showing the year two thousand and wouldn't seem to move on so I left it at twelve o'clock and will probably end up buying her a new one....this one is so old anyway.  

I went out and filled up the log carrier, watered some of the seeds that needed it and left a few of the plants out on the little house terrace that's more sheltered than the main terrace.  Prepared supper and put the slow cooker on to do its magic and had no intention of doing much else.  The grass was wet so I couldn't use the mower and investigated a replacement blade on amazon and found one from Germany but the postage was just a little less than the price of the blade.  I found the old one that had been sharpened by my guest last year so I'll try that first so I need to empty the fuel and turn it upside down.....I should have done it as part of the checks that I did before I used it...doh.....I'll know for next time.

The rest of the afternoon was spent dog dozing on the sofa and I suspect I needed it, I've had a few really early mornings and late nights and need to get back into a good sleeping pattern.  Lit the fire, pasta on by five fifteen, food delivered just before six and I was eating mine very soon after that.  Washing up done, slow cooker base cleaned as well, dishes dried, cooker top cleaned and the kitchen is looking good....that little sleep did me good.  

Looking at the sky tonight it's supposed to be good tomorrow at fifteen degrees and four overnight but those look like rain clouds to me.  They might blow over but there again....not so much April showers but another good downpour and another yellow warning for wind.  LN....Come on, sort it out, we've had enough....LN
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Sunday 3rd April

Well I was happily watching Netflix last night and suddenly as the episode was drawing to a close, the electricity went off at around eleven forty.  Unfortunately the fire was going well and the last thing you need is to search round for candles, still automatically attempt to put lights on and realise that the fuel burning in the petchka needs to be removed and put into the little one in the kitchen.  I left it for a while, lit a candle and headed into the kitchen to prepare the little petchka and realised that the fridge was humming away and it dawned on me that I'd got no lights on in the winter lounge and sure enough, the power had been restored.  I settled back down on the sofa and switched the lamp on, restored Netflix, it was up for ten minutes and again the power went off.  This time it came back on after fifteen minutes so I decided that despite the fact that it had been restored, I took the opportunity to empty the contents of the big woodburner into the kitchen one and it wouldn't matter if it was on or off, the heat was removed so it wouldn't fire up the pump.

Eventually I got to bed around one, head down and slept through until six.  It was fairly dark, thee were clouds covering the stars that were brilliant last night and it's been a funny old day weatherwise.  Washed and dressed, it would be a gardening day weather permitting, settled for toasted bun loaf for breakfast and a banana.  There were four little tomatoes that had hung around for a while and destined for the compost so I decided to take the seeds out and I spread them on to kitchen roll.  I had a close look at them and noticed that one or two had germinated inside the tomatoes so carefully picked out about ten of them and potted them up, the rest I left on wet kitchen roll so see what they would do.  If more put out leaves and roots they'll be potted up as well,  the tomatoes were super little ones so we'll see what we manage to achieve.

So into the little house, the strimmer was the first item to be tackled, I removed the head, gave it a good clean and oiled the spindle, attached the charged battery and strimmed round the edged beds.  The grass was too wet to get the lawn mower out and continue the hard work so I carried the geranium pots to the little terrace wall. took lot of cuttings from the new shoots and removed the very woody old plants.  I now have six pots of new shoots, I've added fertilizer to the compost to give it a boost and we'll see how they fare.  I came in for a while, the wind got up again, it was fine when I was sheltered by the house  but anywhere else in the garden, things were beginning to fly.  Avatar came over and brought me my dish from last night filled with home made yogurt, we sat for a while in the sun and she asked me to get her a new electrical plug for her extension lead that for the time being was held together with sellotape.  I found a plug, we went back together and I started to replace the one that was broken but the cable was too thick for the plug that I had so tomorrow I'll but a rubber one in Djebel for her.  Tools away at five thirty, I watched the women's rugby and England really smashed Italy, supper was a ham sandwich and that will do for tonight.  

Boiler is going on for a bath tonight, I'll go into Djebel early and might even carry on to Kardjali to see if I can buy a new blade for the mower, I seem to recall one last year in the local DIY shop.  I might also take my form to confirm that I'm still alive into the Bank....she completed it for me last time and I need to see my doctor again for either more tablets of a referral to the hospital, I've still got a few bumps coming up on my arms.  LN.....Bath time said Dougal.....LN  



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Monday 4th April

So last night I was thinking that there was nothing on the TV, was about to switch off and go to bed and I'd forgotten all about the last episode of Peaky Blinders.  I watched it, it was an extended episode, I was not what I expected but it looks like it could be on for another season with new characters taking central stage.  I enjoyed the discussion on BBC3 afterwards, a lightweight approach to the script and the lines to note that could be printed up on a t-shirt and worn with pride.  Off to bed and slept through until six and the clock that lines up with Germany overnight was again showing five so fiddled around with it and still don't understand the instructions to keep to local time...Back to the drawing board Cecil.

Sunny old morning but it took awhile to warm up outside.  Inside it was showing twenty one on the thermometer so I put a load of washing in and had a shower and washed my hair.  Dressed for something but hadn't made my mind up whether it was Djebel or Kardjali and I on the way through Djebel I carried on to Kardjali.  Before I left I prepared the paperwork for the pensions department to confirm that I was still alive and breathing and that would be completed at my bank and posted 'Priority' similar to a recorded letter.  I also added my card to the new parking payment system, parked up when I arrived, waved my phone around and it was an 'unknown parking location' so I found the pay point, had to enter my car registration, spoke to the patrolling officer and he said that this car park was now within the scheme.  So I placed the ticket on the dashboard and headed to the bank and finally to the post office and got the letter on it's way.  Back to the Nipper and drove to the second hand furniture warehouse, found a corner stand that might prove useful somewhere but was amazed how much things have increased in price.  There was one piece of furniture inside my price range but wasn't sure what I'd have done with it so it remains for another day.

Back to Djebel and the cashpoint, bought a plug for Avatar's cable, arrived home and walked over the road with plug, money from the cashpoint and screwdrivers in hand and sat in the garden trying to fix the old cable to the new plug. What a performance...I'd bought a rubber plug where the cable is fed through from the base and I had to put cooking oil to make it slide through the channel.  After that it was down hill and it was an impossible task.  We sat in the garden, the wind got up, I got cold so I gave up, the cable was just too thick to go into the bit that goes in the plug socket.  I came home leaving her with all the bits but I'll go back tomorrow and finish it.

Washing in and fire lit and I settled down to watch Netflix and the Vikings.  I felt a little peckish so mixed a tin of tuna with some Russian salad and that should do me for the rest of the evening.  Gardening tomorrow morning if the wind drops and the sun comes out and I have my student tomorrow afternoon and that's my day sorted.  LN....Government form finished so that's off the list....LN
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Tuesday 5th April

Just before seven start, hot water and then back to bed for half an hour.  The sun was up, it wasn't too cold outside or inside but that blasted clock had contacted Germany overnight and it was showing an hour slow.  I tried to adjust it to the correct time and resorted to taking the battery out and taking it back to the beginning.  Half the problem is that the buttons are on the back and you have to look at the front to see if you are wading in the right direction and now way could I get it to stop on the 'month' and it's still showing the incorrect day.....but at least the time is correct.  I made toast for breakfast, more hot water and settled down on the sofa and watched two episodes of Viking....I was waiting for it to warm up outside before I opened up shop.

Eventually I went out and heard Avatar speaking to one of her neighbours so went to the gate,  She was in the road, wagging her finger at someone and didn't look too happy and then she turned and started to walk towards me.  The ladies were complaining that her key was no longer in the door and she didn't want to join them anymore in their houses and she tried to explain that they all have family from here there and everywhere and she prefers to welcome me in the house and if it wasn't for me, nobody seemed to care for her so she left them with fleas in their ears.  The bad news is....the chickens are no more....a weasel got into pen last night and killed six of the seven, she called on Remsie's husband to clear up the carnage and he was told to take the last one and add it to his flock.  She was obviously distraught and Beyser's attack hadn't really helped.  We walked back to her house and she showed me where the creature had dug its way under the structure and got into the little pen.  She doesn't want any more....what a waste of one hundred leva.  

Little house is more or less empty of plants and the tidy up continues.  I'll need help with some of it and might aske the painter if he is available for a couple of days work moving things up to the upper floor.  I'm taking the logs from this store and spent an hour chopping wood to use as starter wood and the day seemed to run away with me and soon it was time to think about preparing for my afternoon student.  I found a text that was going to be fun to work through and it was a success...we had a very enjoyable lesson for both of us.  We went down to the shop and he relayed the story to his mother in English with little prompting from me of some of the new words.  On Friday he has a football match against one of the other towns in Southern Bulgaria and mother is shutting up shop and we're going together.  

I stopped for shopping after the lesson, arrived home and the chicken was put in the over and should be ready any time soon.  I lit the fire and that's going well and tomorrow it's more of the same, clearing, gardening and rubbish burning.  LN.....Kitchen calls....LN



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Wednesday 6th April

Seven start, more hot water without the coffee granules, looked out and the sun was up but shrouded in mist.  I took the water back to bed and played a few games until I was ready to start my day.  I threw the old bread out for the birds and the chicken bones from last night over the wall, washed the dishes from last night, washed me and dressed and then down for breakfast.  I'm cherishing the last of Avatar's chickens eggs but 'shelled out' if you ignore the pun, I had two of them poached and sat at the table in the stairwell and plumbed on to tv with Transponder TV.  The news from Ukraine is dismal, the old news regarding the Falklands and the 'iron lady' was surprising how the local regiment was accused of cowardice but were later acknowledged as working under instructions.  There's a programme about it later this week on ITV.

First job was to sort the bonfire out, take out the old food cans and bur the rubbish that has accumulated.  I do need to empty it out as some point but today wasn't the day it was going to happen.  The put the cans into the log carrier, added the rest of 'unburnable' to the load and walked down road towards the containers carrying Avatar's clemantines.  She wasn't at home, the shoes were missing and the walking cane so I handed them to Beyser who was sitting by her gate taking the sun.  I carried on down the road and suddenly she appeared from Zelinger's lane, she'd been asked to give her a hand.  I emptied the rubbish into the container, walked back to the benches and we sat in the sun, the local mayor pulled up in his car and we had a chat, well the ladies did, it was conducted in Turkish and I hadn't got a clue.  

So back home and pottered for a while and eventually, hearing Avatar throwing her lawn mower around I decided to get mine out, the sun was strong and had dried the grass up.  Before starting the task in hand, I managed to find the spare sharpened blade, turned the machine over and changed the blade and looking at the old one I definitely need to buy a new one.  I wheeled it on to the grass, fired it up and set to on the grave garden and down to the mulberry.  I'd raised the setting for the first time so that the clumps of grass wouldn't stop the cutter, finished the job and moved over to the other garden and mowed round the cherry tree where there were lot of grass clumps.  I'd done about two hours and I suddenly heard Avatar strike up again...she was determined to finish hers, I was content with what I'd achieved.  Tools away and locked up, I watched an episode of the Vikings, settled on the sofa after lighting the fire and relaxed.  The boiler is on, I shall soak the toil of the day out of these old bones and try not to go to sleep in there.

Out tomorrow night to see my student's family for supper, same time and same place.  I haven't seen them for quite some time due to the Covid women here in my village.  I must remember to take the granddaughter's birthday present with me.  Probably not much gardening tomorrow, the prediction is for rain and maybe thunderstorms but I'm sure I can find something to do.  LN....It definitely felt like spring today.....LN



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Thursday 7th April

Seven start. washed and dressed ready to carry on where I left off yesterday with the grass cutting and I was out before the predicted rain...which never came.  Toast for breakfast and at nine thirty I was dropping the cutter on the mower to give the grass a close shave otherwise I shall be doing it every few days. The machine fired up first time and I began the long hard slog having to empty the grass box every four runs to save it spilling out of the sides.  First session was around two hours and I came in for water and an episode of Vikings and that was my first six thousand steps knocked off. cheese and biscuits to tide me over and then out for the second session and I'd finished it by around three this afternoon.  I went over and had ten minutes with Avatar sitting in the sun and she told me that she'd stepped awkwardly on some firewood and she'd fallen over in the house.  Nothing too damaged except for her back so I suggested her magic cream for strains and she was going to put it on later.  

I came home and put my tools away just in case the weather did set in but nothing adverse to report.  I was surprised to see that I'd done eleven thousand steps when I took my watch off to get into a bath to take away some of the aches, in at three thirty, out at five, dried and dressed for my evening entertainment with the family.  I stopped at the supermarket and bought profiteroles to have after the meal and remembered to take the present for the little ones birthday, better late than never.  Lovely even and very relaxed with a mixture of Turkish, Bulgarian and English spoken, telephones going off in every direction possible, calves delivered ready for cooking and bottling for the married daughter and a lorry load of manure sitting outside gate that needs to be distributed over their very large plot.  The house is a hive of activity.

I left at ten and home for around twenty past, a couple of police cars were lingering but didn't stop me.  I'd set the porch light to automatically come on but I thin I got the timing wrong but the solar lights allowed me enough light to negotiate the way to the door and to see to put the key in the lock.  PJ's on and will soon be tucked up in bed,  LN.....Strimming the perimeters and digging up weeds tomorrow......LN
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Friday 8th April

Woke up to a shiny ball in the sky...it was promising to be a good day and it was.  I moved the bench from my upstairs bedroom to the balcony, tried to secure it to the railings with the existing bungy cord but it was having none of it and has deteriorated over the winter so improvised with some elastic from the sewing room.  I did buy three new cords for the shop this afternoon so can secure the bench properly.  Washed and dressed for the garden and had fruit loaf for breakfast that filled up a gap and a resting place for my tablet.  I was in the garden for just after nine thirty and first job was to clear up the broken tree branches from the yard and the grass outside the wall and it looks so much better.  I dumped them in the space that served as a lane between my wall and the next property.  Most of the barrier has been removed from the cows, I don't have a problem with it since the wall keeps everything except for the cats off my land but other properties backing on to the old lane might later let's see how it pans out.

I spent some of the morning watching a starling that'd decided that the old log sitting on the wall near the little house would be perfect for a nesting site.  He popped in and out of it quite a few times to check it out so who knows.  Next task was to  remove the old square mini greenhouse that's seen better days and is so difficult to repair.  It's now down by the bonfire and I'll see if I can managed to save any of the wood but I doubt it...it's very rotten.   Next job was to tackle some of the very weedy beds and my heart wasn't really in it,  so I move inside and got to watch Netflix while having an early lunch, the fruit loaf hadn't really done anything.  I rationed myself to two episodes, went and cut some forsythia and picked some daffodils and made them into rather a nice arrangement for my student.  Last night she asked me to pick some from the Kardjali road if I was going into Kardjali and I said that I wouldn't because I have about nine forsythia bushes in my garden and I'd take them from there.  She seemed very amused and surprised so I promised to pick some for her and deliver them and I did.  I was supposed to take them to her mother's shop but a very kind van driver told me that she was at her house so I dropped them there. the family were processing twenty five kilos of calf meat today....what a task.  They asked me to stay but I was on my way to a football match so said I'd probably pop round tomorrow and grab a couple of bags of fertilizer from their heap for my garden.

So I set off for the game with my young student's parents and it had already started and we were two nil up.  The gathering was mainly made up of the player's parents and two very livewire coaches on the touchline.  It was a good game and I was surprised how well they played, tackles were good as were the passes and the result was seven -one to the home team.  The sun was shining, it was windy but it was coming from the south and it was good to be out watching live sport.  Back to the shop at the finish of the game, I went into the shop and bought the bungy cords and was about to leave when the mother persuaded me to stay for a little longer, her eldest son who used to me my student was driving down from university in Sofia with his girlfriend and she wanted me to meet her.  It seems strange that the young boy that I took to England for a holiday is now finishing university and is twenty two years old.  The years are flying by.

Tuna mayo sandwiches for supper, I couldn't be bothered to cook tonight and a full belly deserves rest so I shan't be too late tonight.  I've sent the photos that I've taken of the boy to his mother...I don't think that they have any of him playing.  LN.....A successful day for all sorts of reasons......LN



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Saturday 9th April

Up at seven, dressed for the garden and spent the day there in dribs and drabs.  I paced myself...two hours out and one in and eventually came in around six this evening.  Poached eggs on toast for breakfast and heard the hoopoe, looked up and there it was on the little house roof and this time the camera was to hand.  Not heard it for the rest of the day though and the starling hasn't been back today....probably gone for somewhere with less activity.

Today's challenge and I did accept it was to clear the old vegetable bed of weeds, find anything I may have planted there and give it water and fertilizer.  I decided that at eight thirty it was too early to be out there so I did emails and FB, a couple of episodes of Vikings and then I was straight on it.  Tools out, log carrier to collect the weeds in and when it was half full, over the wall it went.  Two down and four to go and at twelve I came in for water and stayed a little longer and the remains of the tuna mayo was finished on two slices of toast and yet more Vikings.  I was out again and another two down and I made the decision to go over to see Avatar and ask her if she would phone Semile and ask him if he could deliver 'cow shite' for the garden.  He said that he was very busy but would bring up a digger load after lunch...and I'm still waiting.  So back home and back to it with a vengeance and I finished it around six tonight.  I uncovered a shrub that I'm not sure what it is but I trimmed it back, watered it well and put slow release fertilizer round it, the little oleander that I thought was dead is in fact living so that's a bonus.  Tools away, I sprayed up a couple of buckets ready to fill up with the seeds that are going like fury.  The tobacco have sprouted, I've lots of cornflowers and sunflowers and there's a variety of shrubs from cuttings that have survived the winter and are ready to be planted out.

Not sure about supper tonight, I'm not really hungry at the moment so it could be a 'picky' night.  If he delivers tonight I shall be spreading it tomorrow, leave it for a week or so and then plant the bed up.  The tomatoes that I found growing inside the mother plant are doing well, around seven of are showing their little heads.  England - Wales Six Nations on tonight and what a 'determined' game it is.  One English stretchered off and everyone determined to hold and not release.  LN.....The rugby calls......and the fire needs attention......LN



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Sunday 10th April

I had my bath last night and of course the compulsory nap and then for an early night.  Went off to sleep very quickly and didn't wake up until around six thirty, refreshed and ready to face the day.  Unfortunately the sky didn't fill me with much encouragement, it looked like rain, it turned out OK but the wind was with us all day and I didn't find it very comfortable, the sofa was better.  I got myself ready for the day, there was a chill in the air and I needed to have a bonfire anyway despite the wind.

I fortified myself with a bacon and egg sandwich, cleared the kitchen and washed up and prepared to face the elements.  I collected the rubbish up, went down to the bottom of the garden with the garden fork and fire lighter and the Stanley knife to remove the old polythene from the old cold frame that I'd dismantled yesterday.  The fire was slow to start but once it got going I keep feeding it and then put the lid on it holding it down with stones, that wind was brutal.

It was a lot like yesterday, out for a while and in a while gravitating between bonfire, garden and tv.  The 'garden nourishment' still hasn't arrived and I wondered which 'afternoon' he was talking about when he spoke to Avatar.  Cheese and biscuits proved a very good snack while watching tv, I put a couple of chicken breasts into the oven, poured the remains of a jar of apricots over them and put potatoes and onions in another container and they're almost ready now.  I was going to take one of the breasts over to Avatar but it might be a step too far.  

Supper is ready, I might go into Kardjali tomorrow if it's not raining.  I need to get more tablets from the doctor, the last lot came without a prescription and from her stash so to get more I need proof that they've been prescribed.  My cheapy shop calls, I haven't been for a while and I've got to try out my parking app to make sure it works.  LN......Sky clouded over again...looks like rain......LN



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