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Tuesday 21st June

Woke up at five thirty, much much too early so turned over and managed to sleep through until seven.....much better proposition.  I was fresh out of bread so had cornflakes for breakfast touring the garden and then I made my mind up to do something about the burning pit.....maybe not empty it out but remove the cans and unburnables ready for the container at the bottom of the village.  So removed the cans, put two ore bags of rubbish in it and set it alight remembering to connect the hose just in case.  I popped the lid on when it seemed to be going OK and took the rubbish container back up the garden along with the garden fork, the cans are waiting collection,  I'll get round to it tomorrow.

Next job was to cut back both philadelphus that had gone over against the short wall.  The cultured one was arching beautifully and it seemed such a shame but the woodland variety had started to go wild and had put up new shoots around two feet long,  It's all cut back and over the wall and while I was at it the kerria had the chop as well and the surrounding garden tidied and old poppies removed.  Tools away around twelve, I had my student this afternoon so just time for a shower and hair wash before I left.  Exited shower and ended up wrapped in a very large bath towel on my bedroom balcony to dry off in the sun.  It was a super hot day but it was too late for a swim so maybe tomorrow I will made it although we have clouds in the sky tonight...fingers crossed.

Lesson over and we did a text about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and it took me back to Ur of the Chaldees and the land between the two rivers.  I loved that period of history at school.  I sat and chatted to his mother for a time, left and went to the hardware shop to buy ant powder for my neighbours since they wanted some, bread since I had none and spend time chatting to the lady at my plant shop but she didn't have what I wanted.  One tip she game me though was to buy some pork fat/lard, mix some with water and leave overnight and then feed it to the plants in the evening.  It apparently makes the flowers much bigger and very healthy and maybe worth a try on something I only just care about.  Home for seven thirty which is late for me, supper was local corned beef sandwiches which was 'open a tin, spread butter on bread, add brown sauce and serve.  Done and dusted.  Weather dependent, swimming tomorrow so fingers crossed.  LN.....I need the exercise......LN



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Wednesday 22nd June

Seven start and I'd decided that I would go swimming whatever.  The sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky so I dressed accordingly.  I was a bit slow off the mark, I transferred some money to my BG account and they'd changed the way that the website operated and I found it confusing but all was well in the end.  I left at ten complete with swimming bag, Kindle so that I could have a read and sun oil and thought it was a good idea to pop into my doctors surgery just for her to confirm that the tablet given to me by the specialist worked with the heart ones that she'd given me.  With the combination I have not had any skin eruptions at all but the leaflet says to take them for a month and then consult your doctor.  She read the leaflet that I'd given her, read the notes from the specialist and said she would change my heart tablets and gave me a new prescription, decided that she'd like and ECG which the nurse performed immediately in a room down the hall, lined me up for a blood test but that's got to happen another day, I'd had cornflakes for breakfast.  I also mentioned something I've been concerned about and I'll see that specialist next Tuesday after the blood test....all I wanted was a yes or no on the tablets and I got the full treatment.  I took the prescription to the chemist and unfortunately I think she's given me these before....I'll have to check out the old prescriptions.

So back in the Nipper, out of town and up to my swimming spot.  There were a few students in the pool but I got a welcome from the owner as I walked towards the pool and another welcome from the pool attendant.  He came up to me later and asked me if his grandson could practice his English with me which I did for all of two minutes and then I went any lay in the sun with my book.  I was on a day off.  I swam for two sessions of about forty minutes and feel much better for it despite the clouds coming over and stopping my sun bathing.  There were a few spot of rain but nothing to ruin the day for me but at four I was ready to top up on shopping from Lidl and head homeward.

I unpacked my shopping, out a pizza in the oven for supper and waited fifteen minutes for it to cook.  I'd just finished and was having a banana for pudding when one of my neighbours was asking if she could attack my lime tree for the fruit to dry to make some tea.  I helped out by using my long lopper and got her the best branches and she sat in the yard and took the blossom and put it in a bag.  She had her daughter with her that didn't want any of my banana so I put one in a bag so that she could have her own.  Avatar saw that we were tea collecting , my neighbour left and I cut more so that Avatar could take some home.  I watered the pots and the garden and tomorrow I'm going to but my tomatoes into a grow bag and see how they go.

I forgot to take my camera to the pool, tried to find old photos but couldn't so I'll save it for next time which will be next Wednesday f the weather is good.  I've got my student from the next village arriving tomorrow I think unless she thinks better of it.  LN......I might be swimming again if the weather is good....who knows......LN
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Thursday 23rd June

Not a good night's sleep and I was up at five thirty.  I played a few games of Sudoku until my eyes were roving all over the place so got up and finished watching the Netflix that I'd started yesterday.   It was based on a book by Harlan Coben, I really love his twists and this one didn't disappoint.  There was a heavy mist this morning and it took ages to lift but when it did I thought we were in for a good day so I put a load of washing in.  I wasn't sure if my student would come today or not, I'd left the ball in her court so I had cornflakes for breakfast and decided to cut back the roses on the front wall.  

She arrived and I was very impressed by the work she'd done.  She'd found a program on the internet but unfortunately she's using Turkish as the base language which is great for her and rubbish for me.  We sat in the lounge while she showed me what she'd been doing and I suggested that she carried on with this was of learning since she seems to have taken to it.  She's coming back next week and I think she'll be ready for constructing simple sentences and I also suggested that she brings her English school book with her.  She stayed for about half an hour and she had to keep her occupied for the week and I noticed that the clouds had started gathering.  I still thought that it would blow over so I pegged out the washing all the time thinking I shouldn't be doing it.  I went back in the house, the sky looked to be getting darker and suddenly the wind got up, the trees were blowing and the rain started.  I ran out and got the heavier stuff in and put it straight in the washing machine and set it for the short program.  Twenty minutes later the rain had stopped , the sun was out and the sky was blue,,,who'd have thought it.  I pegged it out again and thought I was on to a winner and half an hour later it was just as dark so I ran out, brought it all in and it's on the airer in the guest room and that's where it will stay until it's dry.  

It's been like that for the rest of the day almost like English April showers.  I've taken up reading again and have started with Game of Thrones from the beginning but I did close my eyes and get an hour's sleep in and expected it to ne much later when I woke up...it was only one o'clock.  I went back to my book for another few chapters and then settled into watching the tennis from Eastbourne...always wanted to go and never managed it.  

The chicken went into the oven and is ready now but it's only going to be served hot with crusty bread.  So one day without my little blue pills and I have my first red bump back to I'm back on them tonight.  I've done more research on the internet and shall stay on them until have my blood test next week and I'm staying on the same blood pressure tablets not the new ones.  I'm hoping that the blood test picks something up.  Still raining out there but not very heavily....better check out the weather for tomorrow but swimming has gone on the back burner again.  LN.....Kitchen bound...that chicken smells too good to be ignored.....LN



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Friday 24th June

Seven start and it looked to be another good day but yesterday started out like this so who's to say what the day will bring.  I had more blotches this morning so I decided that I would go and have my blood test that had been scheduled and go see the doctor again and see what she would suggest.  I set off at eight thirty so was able to park up and get an early test, I handed over my form from the doctor and my GB permit that goes with it so that all cost are paid for and that really confused them.  It was solved by the production of my residency card and I was soon in, was told that the results would be available after twelve that day and so i carried on to see the doctor and she said that the results would be available to her, that I didn't need to wait around.  She sked me if I had started taking the new tablets so I told her that she'd given these to me before and I hadn't connected the prescription with the packaging so I was sticking to the old ones.  The next step was to chase down the name of a specialist in allergies and I've been given the internet address and I have to make my appointment but it's in Plovdiv.  It will not be happening this month and all tablets have to cease for one week before I go and the previous specialist said not to go until the autumn/ winter months....since it is much easier to identify the allergies.  Hey ho....she said that I was difficult to treat so I suggested a shotgun and we had a laugh about it....we didn't work out who was shooting who!!

Back to the Nipper and I moved to the Kaufland car park and went in the supermarket to pick up a few things and managed to sign up for a discount card and the girl adding details to the computer asked if the birth date was correct to which she replied 'bravo' so I must had been having a good day.  I didn't bother with Lidl, I had enough food so intended stopping off at my little supermarket in Djebel but there were no parking spaces so I carried on and was home for twelve thirty.  Lunch and an afternoon rest and when I woke up I took some grapes that I'd bought in Kaufland over to Avatar and suddenly there was someone shouting outside and we found that he was selling honey.  She asked how much it was, she was fresh out of money and needs me to get some from the cash point so I paid her back the jar that she'd given me and I told the man that I would pay for the four but I needed to go get the money.  He appeared at the gate, I calculated that I should be paying thirty two leva and suddenly the price had gone up to forty.  I questioned it, he was adamant that he'd said ten not eight so I paid up, went back to Avatar's house and now she's going to batter him for a rebate.  I'll leave it in her capable hands.

Back home and I settled back into the tennis.  I've decided that I'm going to stick to my old tablets and am going to start the 'little blue pills' again   Hope all will be quiet on the western front,  LN.....The weather looks to have settled down again....I think I need another swim day.....LN



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Saturday 25th June

Seven start again and it was a very leisurely morning.  I put the washing away that had sat in the guest room, emptied the waste bins and had a bonfire and shredded a root of ginger and added it to one of the new jars of honey.  I used the grater to start off the process and decided that I would try it with the electric grater and ...wrong....the centre of the root was very woody and I ended up chopping that up with a knife  I think it needs to rest for a couple of days so that the flavour is absorbed but I tested it none the less.  And it was still only eight thirty.  I cleared out the fridge and the cats had a few slices of 'mature' ham which suited them but not me and I've just remembered, I didn't have any breakfast.  

I sat out on the terrace and enjoyed the morning.  It was a beautiful start to the day but the clouds rolled over and there was no chance of going to the pool so I set about tidying the little house and getting rid of more rubbish.  I went up to the upper level and dug out some hanging chairs that had spent the winter up there and found the wooden sun bed but it was just too heavy for me to get down on my own.  I thought about sliding it down the ladder but felt that it might get stuck and then I'd be stuck upstairs and no way down so I left that until I can get help from my painter.  I could probably manage it with a rope and Avatar at the bottom but not sure how instinctive she would be if she had to move quickly.  

A rest was on the cards so I took my reading Kindle outside and sat on outside sofa with that and a bunch of grapes that I'd bought yesterday.  I lit a citronella candle and had the smoke blowing in my direction to keep the flies away and that worked for a while until I thought that I'd be better off inside on the sofa in the lounge and I slept for a couple of hours.  I had a bowl of yoghurt and sliced a banana into it so, so far so good....a healthy day.  Unfortunately I missed the Women's tennis final from Eastbourne but the result was as I expected and it seemed to be a one sided final, the Latvian won.  At five I again made it into the little house and cleared an lot of rubbish that will be burnt tomorrow.  The empty pots and the plastic trays are stacked, the floor has been cleared and the shelving will get attacked tomorrow.  

The farmer's son has been a real nuisance rounding up the cows on his trial bike.  He just seems to rev it so much and you can hear him for kilometers.  I went out to the balcony and saw that he'd taken to the road so I went to the guest room facing the main road and as he came by the house he caught sight of me in the window and wave so I stuck my fingers in my ears and he got the message.  He put his hand on his heart as if to indicate 'sorry', he's a good lad but they just don't think.  Maybe he will in the future.  Cold chicken for supper unless I do something else with it but at eight fifteen my time I can't see it happening.  LN.....Not even very hungry but must eat something.....LN



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Sunday 26th June

Another seven start and I took my first cup outside despite the fact that there were a few spots of rain falling.  It had rained well overnight, we'd hat a few claps of thunder when I took to my virginal couch but I hadn't stayed awake long enough for it to disturb me.  I made more honey, lemon, ginger and salt concoction and settled in to watch an episode of Breaking Bad, my latest Netflix and at nine thirty wandered across the road to see Avatar but she was in Beyser's garden along with Haciber.  I took a seat on a crate and was handed a dry cushion, was offered coffee, Turkish Delight and some cherries and declined everything.  I'd not had breakfast yet and was waiting for the bread wagon but that wasn't due until ten thirty so I guested I was having to make do with stale bread.  Avatar and myself went back to her garden and she offered me bread that she'd bought yesterday so I accepted...it was much fresher than mine.  She'd mentioned money from the cashpoint yesterday so I asked if she was still ok for money and she said that she was down to her last few leva.  I invented a reason to go into Djebel, asked for her card, went home and made toast and jam, sat outside eating it and then made my way to Djebel.  No one was waiting at the cashpoint so took her money, stopped off at the local supermarket for a few small packets of biscuits that I don't feel guilty finishing and headed home, going straight over and returning the card, cash and ATM receipt and explaining it to her.  She offered me ten leva for going and to repay me for the honey that I'd got for her the other day but she ignored the fact that she'd given me a jar of honey for free last week.  We got quite loud with me refusing, Beyser came over to referee and we all had a good laugh about it.  I settled for five leva and we were quits.

The rest of my day has been spent with weeding the flower beds interspersed with Netflix and a period of sleep but I didn't come in until eight this evening so I've achieved quite a lot.  I've removed the poppies, from the old veg garden since  most of them have gone over, spread compost over one of the beds near the large lilac and some fertiliser mixture and watered it all in well.  I also planted up some spares that I know now what they are but they're better sitting in the garden that lingering in pots.  When I dug down though the ground was still very dry despite the watering so it really does need a good layer of manure to give it more body this winter.  

The clouds have rolled over again and I'm hoping we have some rain overnight, the garden really needs it.  More of the same tomorrow weather permitting and I might even visit the Djebel market and see if I can manage to buy a few more plants to fill out where the poppies were planted.  I've also found a couple of weigela in a pot on the terrace that I've grown from cuttings and they can add to the old veg bed, they've both finished flowering so should be OK to move.  LN.....Bath and bedtime for me....I'm knacked.....LN
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Monday 27th June

Magical morning with the mist hiding the mountains and the sun showing itself over Polyanets.  I sat out for a while but had to remove the cushion from the bench. it might not have rained but it was certainly damp overnight.  I watered some of the pots that were wilting but others with buckets underneath them were fine.  By the time that I got round to thinking about breakfast the electricity was off so it was spread cheese sandwich for me.  The electricity didn't come back on again until four this afternoon so my Netflix was curtailed but at least I didn't sleep through any episodes this afternoon and have to backtrack to find the last point of consciousness.

This morning was taken up with more of the same as yesterday, weeding beds and moving small plants around to fill the gaps.  I noticed the electricity wagon park up and I knew the man so went to have a word with him.  Apparently they were fitting new clocks to all the outside meters, and the power was off because they were rust-proofing the pilons and repainting them.  I thought it was because they were working on the mosque but thinking about it, it's only a hook-up to the mains when the wiring is complete.  I noticed that the women were in Avatar's garden and she called me over, found me a seat and a spoon and we were all dipping into a carton of ice-cream provided by Zelinger.  There was very little left when I got there so I ended up with the tub all to myself and finished the lot.  Off they toddled back to their own houses, I helped Avatar put the chairs away and then came home and got stuck into the garden until it got too hot to be out there.  I settled on the sofa and woke up around three, read the Kindle for a while and was surprised when the kettle started to boil, the power was on.  I went out again carried on where I left off and at six thirty was watering the plants when I saw Emula on his bicycle and he asked me if I still wanted help in the morning. Basically all I wanted was the wooden sunbed from upstairs in the little house to my bedroom balcony so I found a rope out and between us we managed it.  It's now ready for my daughter or for me if I can drag myself away from the garden.  

I carried on with the watering, locked up for the night and am now half listening to Andy Murray and his first step on the ladder at Wimbledon.  I did catch the English wonder girl play her first time on Centre Court and she's through to the next round.  Supper time and it's going to be tuna may on sandwiches I think....too hot to be slaving over a hot stove.  LN....Kitchen calls.....LN



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Tuesday 28th June

Seven start and it was a beautiful morning to wake up to. Unfortunately the rest of the day wasn't like that, we had lots of white clouds and a raging wind so the umbrella had to come down as a safety measure.  I've had it for too long to watch it fly over the hillside and then search for a replacement.  I watered the plants that I'd put in the garden last night to give them a chance of survival and when that was done I was at a loose end.  I'd got in my head that the lunch time gathering at Avatar's house was at twelve thirty so I had a few hours before I needed to be anywhere.  I played around in the garden but in my night attire, came in and realised the electricity was off so chances of Netflix were abandoned and I took to the sofa in the lounge with my little Kindle and carried on reading Game of Thrones book one.  I was just warming up for a shower and wash my hair planning to go into Kardjali after lunch when Emula's mother was at the door telling me to come immediately to Avatar's house and by now I realised that she's said eleven thirty not twelve thirty.  Most of the ladies get up early, have lunch and spend most of the afternoon in bed coming out in the evening....a siesta no less.  I said 'give me five minutes' and the response what that it should be immediate, off she went, I ran upstairs and had a wash, put a brush through my hair and tied it back, got dressed and i was over the road in four.  

It was a very formal affair.  They were all seated at the table on the grass under the tree. there was a huge banichka, salad. Fanta or juice and they were all tucking in.  A huge plate of banichka was put in front of me that I knew I'd never be able to get through and I knew now why the pants that they wear have elastic waistbands and I told them so and we had a laugh about it.  I was wearing jeans with a leather belt so couldn't eat as much as they did.  Then came the very sweet cake as in calories not design, Haciber nodded off, Emula's mother set off for her house and eventually there were just two of us with the tidying and the washing up.  We cleared most things, I put the chairs back in the garage and the washing up was left, Avatar had had a busy day and was about to take to her bed for her afternoon nap.  I came home, thought about Kardjali and abandoned the idea, I'd moved my student to Thursday afternoon so tomorrow is all mine and if the weather is good I'm going swimming after I've sorted items on my list.

My this time the electricity had come back on and I saw the man who was spray painting the pylons as I walked back from Avatar's house.  I'm sure he had more paint on his clothing that the pylon ever saw and on such a windy day one would have considered rescheduling but I forgot...this is Bulgaria.  I am hoping that he had full protection on.  So after a lazy morning and a very filling lunch, I turned on the television and watched Wimbledon more first rounds.  Seven thirty I went out and watered the plants for the second time today and the pots and everything is looking good.  I've just seen a strange sight though....no trials bike bringing home the cows, a Renault Clio has just cone over the fields heading back towards the farm and the cows are following.  I'm wondering if this has something to do with my complaints the other day!!  LN....I really do hope so ......LN



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Wednesday 29th June

Out of bed at six thirty, washing in by six forty five, pegged out by seven thirty, bonfire and hose connected for safety by seven forty.  While the house was down there I connected up the pipe with holes in it and gave the shrubs a good soaking and used the hand trimmer to neaten up the shrubs balls that I have at the bottom of the garden.  What a morning of activity.  I watered the rest of the new plantings and created a new one in a hollowed out log from the side of the house using a petunia that I'd pulled up an a fit of excessive weeding.  I came in to get myself a drink and looked at the clock...it was ten minutes to ten and the rest of the day was mine.

By now I'd worked up quite an appetite so made two poached eggs on toast with ham and that set me up for the day.  I made my mind up to go into Kardjali, I had a book to buy for my student tomorrow and my little Chuwi computer was going in to see if a repair could be done on it.  I've never yet managed to get the machine to see an SD card and the think just keeps telling me that it's running out of memory so let someone who knows look at it.  I drove in and parked up on Kaufland carpark and walked to the computer shop, the man poked around and said that it appeared that the SDF slot wasn't working.  He took my phone number, gave me a receipt and hopefully I'll hear from him soon.  The machine is only used for Transponder TV for breakfast time, emails and refuses to load FB because of lack of memory.  It makes me wonder if the slot ever worked!!  I made my way to Kaufland but they no longer have books in store so back to the Nipper and on to the pool.

Very few people there and I had a choice of bed and umbrellas.  A few clouds were around but nothing to bother me and more or less straight in the pool which was bliss.  I must have been in there for around forty five minutes doing widths and no one doing lengths so I was in no one's way.  Back to the bed and settled down to Game of Thrones on the little Kindle, got bored with that and back in the pool for around the same length of time and I'm amazed at how fit I am at my time of life.  Got out and dried off and changed to a sunbed on the other side of the pool without umbrellas and full sun, back to my book, checked the time and it was four thirty so time to think about Lidl and the student book, a little shopping and home.  In Djebel I stopped to buy cheese for Avatar, unloaded and put my shopping away and then popped over to deliver the said lump of cheese and she reminded me that half the quantity from the morning van was the same price...shop locally...pah!!

Towel and swim gear in the washing machine  and into PJ's and that's now sitting in the guest room and should be ready for Friday...weather permitting.  I feel so good after a day at the pool and I've stopped all tablets now.  My blood pressure seems to have settled down now that I'm more active and no blotches to worry about which only adds to the stress.  So tomorrow student in the morning and my usual Tuesday tomorrow afternoon.....and as I've said maybe swimming or the grass my grab my attention...I'll see how I feel.  LN......Now back to Andy Murray for a visual, I'm only hearing the commentary and roars from the TV downstairs.......LN



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Thursday 30th June

Tennis seems to have taken over and I watched Andy Murry in his pursuit last night and then the final of the Great Sewing B which was much more interesting,  I used to always watch the second week, never the first and I think I should have stuck to that.

First awakening was at four thirty and then on the hour until I made it out of the nest by six thirty and with not much to do until my first student of the day at ten I sort of meandered through the morning.  I gave the pots a good watering, it promised to be a very hot day and it didn't disappoint but I couldn't head for a pool, I had self imposed work to do.  I settled for a ham and cheese toasted sandwich for breakfast which I sort of had on the run, put the main TV on to catch the headlines since my little one is in for repair and went in the shower at nine, hair washed and dried off on the upstairs balcony, finishing my hair off with the dryer and managed to prepare something for the morning's lesson.  The young lady arrived with phone in hand and we started the process of getting her to speak Bulgarian.  The Turkish program that she's using is very good but also very American so some of the grammar is suspect and the phrasing.  It was twelve before I called a halt to it and gave her some homework so that she can start writing and constructing simple sentences from the verbs that we covered and she can use the book that I bought yesterday to help her.  We'll see next week how she got on.

Changed my t-shirt and was in the Nipper for two thirty heading for my second session with my young man.  I'd printed off a couple of texts that were fairly easy from the BBC website and quite nice stories with test questions already prepared.  We finished at five, I went down to the shop and he went with money from me to buy three ice-creams to cool us down a little.  He related the story that we'd just gone through to his mother, I'd done through it with her while he was buying the ice-creams and they both matched more or less.  So much so that I came away with ten eggs from their chickens and that should see me through next week.  

Home for six thirty, supper was tuna mayo with sweet potato, beetroot and hard boiled eggs and the sweet potato certainly added something different to it.  Washing up can wait, only the grass to sort tomorrow so I'll be starting that early if the grass isn't too damp in the morning.  LN.....All go in my neck of the woods.......LN
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