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Tuesday and Wednesday, 11th January

Yesterday was long and arduous.  The taxi came at three in the morning, I hadn't gone to bed, I find that more difficult than sleeping on the sofa ready dressed for the off.  I walked out to meet the taxi, saw one pull away so struggling with the luggage and holding my hat I staggered out to the road and he'd parked about three door away.  We loaded the luggage in the boot, I settled in the car and halfway to Gatwick I remembered my hat, searched the front of the car and no, I'd lost it between the house and the taxi.  Now the hat was hand crafter by yours truly and it became my standby when I wanted to cover my hair and obviously to keep my head warm and dry, I came out with a few obscenities, very quietly and took it on the chin.  I messaged home but there was no sign of it today.  The flight was pretty standard except that there were four female flight attendants and it was like a mother's meeting at times on the plane, arms folded and standing outside the loo at the front of the plane.  Grumpy me but didn't say anything.  Just missed the twelve o'clock bus to Kardjali because of the volume of traffic and they've changed the schedule, the next was at one forty which threw my onward even further away.  Slept most of the way down, arrived in Kardjali, grabbed my luggage and my local next bus had just arrived, the driver recognised me and put my luggage inside the bus and late comers had to climb over it.  When we arrived in Djebel, the bus driver parked up by the taxi rank, I told him that my car was outside the car-shop so he got back in the driver's seat and carried on to the shop, unloaded my luggage for me, I gave him a note, and my friend was there with the key for the Nipper.  Everything loaded, I'd forgotten where the headlight switch was but eventually got the show on the road.  I forgot to mention that it had rained all day, was still raining but I got the car in the drive, unlocked the doors, switched on more lights, emptied the water from my underground stop-cock tap with a bowl and turned the water on, covering everything up again.  Luggage in, kettle on, fire lit, Netflix on, bed and a good night's sleep.

It had stopped raining this morning, a vague hint of sun in the sky, fire relit, breakfast of toast and jam, unpacking finished and washing done, batteries changed in the outside weather station so now I know how cold it is outside as well as how warm it is in.  I'd still got enough wood in for the rest of the day and will top up tomorrow, the house is about seventeen degrees in so not bad and it was eight out today.  Today was all about plugging things in, finding places for new stuff and trying to find where I'd hidden things while I was away, not urgent, things will turn up.  I ran a bath this afternoon and spent two hours in there and had my afternoon nap, nurtured the fire back to life, cooked some 'Grandma's meatballs' in passata and had them with croquette potatoes done in the air-fryer.  Sustenance complete and settling into my first evening home...I'm pleased to be back.  LN.....Now just waiting for winter to turn up....LN



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Thursday 12th January

What a good nights sleep, I clocked up eight hours which is most unusual for me and felt much better for it.  So my day started at eight, I got my over sweater on over my very thick p.j's , I didn't light the fire straightaway, managed to sort out television and English programmes and decided to log in from the computer which was much easier and all I had to do was to remember the convoluting route through the buttons on the t.v.  Eventually I got there, watch too many experts giving too many opinions on Good Morning so switched over to Beeb 2 and watch a brilliant programme and cider making and taking it to the country shows and another like a Repair Shop spin off providing youngsters with expert advice on making jewellery and creating wooden pots.  Really enjoyable and then I thought about lighting the fire and realising that I had to find the keys to the woodstore, I'd squirreled them away so they were hidden while I was away.  I'd had a quick look for them yesterday, hadn't panicked but now it was really necessary...there was no wood in the log carriers.

I searched around and eventually found a jar of keys which were obviously duplicates of the ones that I was looking for but the duplicates opened the door that I wanted to open.  While I was at it I found the keys to the upstairs balconies and left them in the locks, but the main bunch of the little house and log store on a pink cleat were well hidden.  I gave up and had breakfast, I also put the rest of last night's supper into the slow cooker and added a tin of chili beans, turned it on and left it to its own devices until five this evening.  So two logs of logs in and the fire was soon going well, I put the washing away, washed up from last night and this mornings empty saucepan and went on the hunt again for the elusive keys.  I searched where I'd already searched, went into one of the chests and found an old Oxo tin which evoked a vague memory, rattled it and there they were along with the Pajero keys.  I could now relax.  I also managed to laminate my two road tax receipts and will put them with my car documents so if I get stopped, I'm now legal.

The log basket was loaded up, I made a call to the UK to respond to an email about a demand from someone purporting to be from the Licensing Authority in the UK demanding payment for the television license before it was cut off.  Since it goes out by direct debit it was obviously a scam so only a scam report to be sent off.  I did a little house work, took the dust off the furniture that had accumulated over five weeks and settled down to wait for the afternoon's snooker.  I watched it and thought it was going Ronnie's way, the next three I watched while playing sudoku fearing the worst, the last one at five games all I watched until Ronnie missed a pot and then cheered the other fellow on.  Shame but perhaps it's time that Ronnie hung up his cue.

Fire going well, I've only burnt about five logs all day, curtains drawn and I'm in for the evening remembering to lock up the woodstore and the little house with the usual keys.  I might go into Kardjali tomorrow if the weather is good, it did managed to get up to eight degrees today so still no sign of winter.  LN......Time to switch off, go back down to the fire and relax and get ready for, hopefully, another long sleep....LN



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Friday 13th January

Not such a good night last night...I was playing sudoku from three thirty to four thirty, random sleep after that and eventually out of bed at eight thirty.  So I had my sleep but in stages.  I made coffee and got the fire going and sat watching Netflix 'Dead to Me' recommended by Princess and am still not sure if I'm enjoying it or not but if filled in part of the morning. It was a patchy morning, no rain but low cloud which broke up but then clouded over again.  I toyed with the idea of going into Kardjali and even made a shopping list but the furthest that I managed was Djebel.  More meat balls went in the remains of last nights supper and this is the third day of the same thing so I reckon I have to go main shopping at some point...it's getting boring.

At one thirty I'd washed and dressed for Djebel, it was only four degrees outside so on went a double layer of sweaters, a hat that my Avatar had made for me and I took phone stick on holders for the garage owners wife and one for my student.  When I parked up her and her husband were inside the shop and of course, the first topic of conversation was the weather.  I explained how I had to empty out the water inlet hole at the house to get to turn the water on the night that I arrived and we had a laugh about it.  It had rained all day and I mentioned that in England I could count the days that the weather was good .  They inferred that I'd ordered the weather for Bulgaria so that I felt at home as soon as I'd arrived.  He went back to the garage and I sat n the shop and we discussed myriads of topics...we normally do.  We discussed New Year and I was told that it was a wonderful night in Djebel.  A DJ was performing, lots of people there of all ages enjoying themselves, free wine and around five minutes worth of exceptional fireworks....so guess where I'll be next year with anyone that wants to join me.  She mentioned that they hadn't been to Pamporovo ski-ing, there's only artificial snow and the temperature over the holiday was around sixteen degrees.

I left at three and went to the little supermarket, bought lots of goodies for the goody box so that I've got nibbles, two loaves of bread, chicken drumsticks, eggs, cheese, fruit juice, mandarins, carrots and onions.  This should keep me going until Monday when I'll go into Kardjali. Home and unpacked by four thirty, sat down with a coffee and an éclair from the supermarket and there was a late burst of sunlight on the houses in the next village as the sun set,  I served up my supper around six with the intention of watching Tipping Point and the following program but missed most of it, waking up just before eight.  Still four degrees outside and toasty in which probably accounts for the fact that I nodded off.  LN......Nothing on the agenda for tomorrow so far...still recouping from my journey home.....LN



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Saturday 14th January

Another disturbed night. more sudoku and then back to sleep until eight.  It wasn't quite raining but very threatening, the temperature outside was four degrees and I couldn't even raise the effort to top up the log basket until two this afternoon.  I did cook sausages and egg for breakfast, the cat got the stale bread and meowed desperately for something better but there was nothing that needed throwing out....but there will be tomorrow.  I made a stew out of the chicken legs, onions and carrots and into the slow cooker it went, the cat will have the bones tomorrow.

My first visitor came round at eleven and I was still in my pyjamas and it was Haciber.  She was very pleased to see me, we fist bumped, I've been travelling to long to be clear of everything so wasn't worth the risk.  We discussed the rest of the village, the health of the men and women, the women are OK but poor Remsie's husband has been diagnosed with a tumour in his lung and apparently an operation is out of the question.  He's the man that does the DIY for most of the old ladies and they will be looking for another without him and I'm not sure there is anyone to take his place.  My second visitor arrived at one bringing with her a complete tortoise shell without contents and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it...maybe a 'To Let' sign.  She managed to eat a couple of the mandarins that I bought yesterday, didn't want tea or coffee and I sent her off with another one for her mother.  She hasn't any work at the moment so is staying and looking after her mother and has invited me round for coffee.

I filled up the log carriers and log basket and topped up the fire.  I settled down on the sofa and promptly got my head down catching up with the sleep that I lost overnight.  I started to watch a film on Netflix but was in and out of sleep so will probably have to try it again and leave it for another day.  The rain eventually set in this afternoon and it's very cold and damp and just the weather I love...not.  Give me sun or snow...there's not much in between I'm comfortable with.  LN.....Looks like we might have three days of sun to follow...fingers crossed.....LN
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Sunday 15th January

So I had a better night but felt really dozy until after lunch time.  Haciber came round and delivered a chocolate croissant to me, it's in the goody box and I'm sure there'll come a time.  I lit the fire, it was another cold damp morning and unfortunately the sun never shone today...the weather men were lying to me again.  I didn't get up to much, I think I'm still getting over the journey and the change of scenery and tomorrow I know that I really must do something.

I have my shopping list at the ready and I might take my new computer in to see if they can set up a reboot disc for me and a back-up drive on my Windows 11.  I also need to get going again on my ancestry and pass on the results to my nephew and his new family.  The chart is completed on the ancestry site but I need to get it into a different format so that I can get the appropriate strands documented.

I watched the snooker this afternoon until they went off for a break, turned over to Netflix and carried on watching the series recommended by Princess and I have to wait until nine my time to watch the rest of the snooker. Chances are that I'll fall asleep and not know the result until tomorrow or maybe I won't even bother watching it.  My real interest fell at the first hurdle despite setting off really well, he was caught and over taken and that was really the end of my snooker interest.  I've caught some of the games and in some cases it cold have been played at the local snooker club....nothing very stirring.

So fingers crossed for better weather tomorrow if I'm off to Kardjali but if it's raining, even that can be delayed for another few days....it's not as if I'm out of food, there's plenty in the freezer.  LN.......mojo back in action tomorrow...weather permitting......LN
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Monday 16th January

Back to normal...seven thirty when I woke up this morning....I'm getting used to the two hours time difference.  It was one degree outside according to my weather station and fourteen inside so the fire was more or less top of my priority list.  It wasn't cold inside, the brickwork is starting to warm up but if I was going out if would be fine but if I decided not to go into the grand metrolopes of Kardjali, I would be lighting it.  Looking out of the window towards the hillside, I could see nothing but wall to wall fog, the terraces were drying up but no way was I setting forth, cold and damp is not good for old bones.  

So fire lit, I sliced up half of a spicy sausage, fried it off and made and omelette for breakfast and sat at the table in the stairwell to eat it.  I filled up the log carriers and it was just starting to rain so I'd made the right decision, today was a Netflix and fire day.  There was a little bit of a panic on, my host from the UK suggested that I'd packed on of his cables by mistake so I checked through mine and only found one that I didn't recognise.  I emailed him back, said that I thought he'd bought two watches from the same company so he should check the other box and there was probably, or should be, another cable in there. I said that I couldn't open the photo that he'd sent me of the cable but when he sent me a second copy, it wasn't the cable that I'd brought back in error so back to the drawing board Cecil.  Another email and he'd found the second cable so now he just has to hunt for the first, I know I don't have it.  So the to-in and fro-ing took up quite a bit of time but then I settled down to Netflix and got engrossed in the series I was watching,

The day cleared up but the outside temperature only got up to three degrees and started to drop as the day wore on.  I've written yet another shopping list but again, I can manage without most of the things and am only missing chocolate at the moment....it's on the 'wish list' not on the necessary/essential.  I've got my student tomorrow so my task will be to find another interesting text for us to go through....or maybe just a post holiday catch up.  I did bring a very interesting book about Ancient Civilizations back with me from the UK...I might just take it along and we can discuss it and look at maps.  LN.....Getting back into the swing of things...all I need is snow but the UK seems to be getting ours.....LN



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Tuesday 17th January

Very pleasant evening last night, Monday is my quiz night and I watched Only Connect followed by University Challenge and what an exciting game that was.  At the final gong it was all square with both teams having one hundred and forty points each and it was down to the next starter question as to who was going through to the next round.  My four dizzy females answered it and now they're through.  It was cat and mouse for most of the show with one then the other going into the lead and it was a good finale.  I wasn't really sleepy so caught a couple of episodes of my Netflix 'current fix' and went to bed at twelve and it wasn't too long before my eye decided that the rest of me was tired.  I snuggled down and was awakened suddenly to an alarm ringing, I'd forgotten to cancel the taxi alarm for the previous week, I fiddled around with it and eventually I got the thing to stop, cursed a little and then settled down again and it was eight thirty when I became comatose.  A good if not disturbed night's sleep.

I fried off the rest of the spicy sausage and an egg and that was breakfast sorted.  It was nine degrees outside and fourteen in and since I had my student at two this afternoon I decided not to light the fire, once I'd dressed and became active there was no need of it.  Kitchen tidied, washing done and some was even pegged out despite the winds and the rest went on the clothes airer in the guest bedroom to dry in the sun.  I carried on walking the garden after pegging out and was amazed at how many mole hills I have, they've had a field day.  I've got a box of mole smokes so tomorrow might be a good day to start lighting a few.  Yes they've got a right to live but not in my garden, it gets very dangerous underfoot.  

At twelve I started to think about a text for my student this afternoon.  I've not seen him since before Christmas so there would be lots of catching up to do and I do think speaking is a good part of learning a language. The reading is easy but I think you need to educate the ears into listening and he's doing well.  We had our lesson, he'd done his homework which I'd set as a test to see if he would, asking him to translate a whole page of text.  He did it after his mother had chided him, I should have looked at it but didn't, he'd done it and that was all that mattered.  He showed me his presents from Christmas which were all based around training and getting fit for his football interest and of course, after the lesson we had to have our obligatory game of football.  Down to the shop at five thirty, his father had closed the garage up early so I got to see the family and was in my car heading home at six only stopping off at the cash-point to confirm that there was nothing wrong with my card.  It had been refused twice when I tried to pay for my road tax but the transaction went through OK, my purse is now topped up again and I've checked the account balance, I'm in the black.

Home for five thirty, washing in, fish finger and chips in the air-fryer, fire lit and by six thirty I was sitting down to supper in front of a roaring fire.  The washing from the machine was on the airer near the radiator in the bathroom and will dry over night.....all go and I've had a much better day.  Free day tomorrow so far, I want to start writing up the chart or typing up the chart, I'll see how it goes.  LN...Moving down to the fire and I'm sure by now the fire needs seeing to......LN
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Wednesday 18th January

So I settled down last night to watch Winter Watch and saw none of it.  I slipped off into the deepest sleep, wasn't sure where I was when I woke so staggered off to the bedroom and t wasn't long before I was off again and it was a six thirty start this morning.  It was still very dark outside, not much of a glimmer of the morning so I made coffee and went back to bed until the morning woke up.  The outside temperature was nine degrees but the wind was rattling round, the trees were bending and swaying and leaves were collecting again in the garage.  I lit the fire, it wasn't cold but I needed the warmth to take the chill off the morning, it was miserable out there.  and the fire soon caught.  At least it was cheery inside.

I washed up the slow cooker that had soaked overnight and filled it up with the chicken legs that had thawed and some carrots and onions.  Supper was under preparation before breakfast.  More coffee, toast and jam was prepared, I sat down to watch morning television and soon realised that it was all doom and gloom, I was shouting at the 'experts' again and everyone seemed to be talking over each other.  Not as civilised as television used to be.  I put the washing away that had dried overnight in the bathroom, thought about doing lots of things and settled for doing very little.  I've done more work on the ancestry chart investigations and it's time to start writing it up.  I've got about five generations and in some cases more back and it's funny, the more people that you meet in the 'family' you begin to know them.  It's more to do with the occupations and one pair actually got married in a cathedral where he used to look after the organ.  I've just found another one that changed his occupation from farmer to landlord and I intend looking up the pub to see if it's still trading.

I've had supper already, I've been picky all day since breakfast, crisps have gone and it was close with another packet but I resisted.  The chicken bones are destined for the cat tomorrow which will probably be left for the farm dogs.  I had to relight the fire, it would have struggled to get going again so a firelighter made it easier for it.  The rain started again around three this afternoon and was lashing against the windows, that wind hasn't abated.  LN.....Where is the sun that was promised by Accuweather...it might have to change its name.....LN



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Thursday 19th January

Well another wild and windy day.  It was dark when I woke up, twelve degrees out and it was a toss up whether to light the fire or not so I left it for a while.  I somehow forgot about breakfast, I cleared the rubbish bins from the house, toyed with the idea of a bonfire but left it for a while to see if the wind would drop.  I settled down to watch t.v and gave in on the fire which in itself drew some activity out of me.  I topped up the log basket, put some windproof gear on and made my way to the log store,  filled up the log carrier and found another log carrier that was being used for something else so filled it up and left it in the wood store.  I also noticed that I had a few very large logs so split about six of them with the big chopper and the lump hammer.  I may not have the strength but I've got a fool proof method.

The sun came out and the wind kept blowing and with encouragement from the Fitbit telling me I needed to do a few more paces, I picked up the rubbish container from the porch and headed down the garden with fire lighter in hand.  The lid is in a really sorry state, it's there to stop the wind blowing the lighted stuff over the hillside.  I removed the remains of the old lid, found a sheet of metal on the top of the roof tiles half way down the garden, got the fire underway and settled the metal lightly on top of it so as not to put the fire out.  It did the trick, no damage done, I walked the garden and tied up one of the shrubs that was being hammered by the wind, found some snowdrops and winter flowering jasmine so picked some of each and brought them into the house.  There are lots of budding daffodils and hopefully the snow wont come and cover them all up.  

Back to the house, topped up the fire, settled in to watch series four of another set that I was watching last year, it's only just been released.  This kept me quiet for most of the afternoon, at one point I thought I might be nodding off but managed to avoid it so should sleep OK tonight.  Chicken dippers for supper tonight courtesy of the air fryer, washing up done and now getting settled for a gentle evening.  Again we had rain but not as much as previous days, that wind was really howling but was coming from the south so not much chance of snow from that direction.  LN...Looks like England has my winter.....LN



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Friday 20th January

Well it's not a matter of what weather we've had today, it's what weather didn't we have...snow but the temperature is dropping rapidly.  Thunder and lightning over night and still going this morning at six thirty when I opened the curtains, very highs winds, lashing rain with the rain tumbling from the gutters which means that I shall have to get the ladders out and clear them out or find a man who will.  The temperature was OK in the house, again it was a toss up whether or not to light the fire but I laid it ready just in case my resolve gave way.  

I decided to make an omelette for breakfast and used three eggs, when it came to a filling the only thing that I had in the fridge was a box of cheese triangles and out of curiosity I checked the date code and found that they'd expired in June.  They're now out of their silver jackets, sitting in the porch and the cat will have them tomorrow and she can take them or leave them.  I searched around and found a container of soft feta cheese that I'd bought the other day and it was a bit of a disaster, it fairly dissolve into the omelette but it did the job.  It didn't really taste of anything and this prompted me to consider going into Kardjali, despite the weather for a really good shop and I did.  I was in the Nipper by twelve, stopped off for petrol and was told by the 'dispensing technician' that I was ordering a very small quantity and I replied that it was a gas car and my running costs were much  better for it.  He did what I'd asked him to do and I carried on to Kaufland car park.  My first stop was the computer shop with my newly acquired laptop and I took along the drive that I wanted the system software putting on and explained that I wanted a boot program on the USB and was told that the kit I'd provided wasn't compatible but would be good for loading music or films on and a man waiting for his bits said that for thirty leva they would sort out any problems I might have.  I did buy a small keyboard for the new tablet so I do have something for my visit.

I returned to the car park and was approached by gypsies asking for money and a very small child with its hand out.  No I'm not hard hearted but I know how the Bulgarian government give handouts and no one should be begging so I carried on, got my trolley and started my shop.  I only collected a few items, my main shopping was going to be in Lidl or so my list said so made my way to the checkout and blow me down, three more gypsies were near the checkout asking me for money again to buy some food from the outside Kaufland café.  I controlled my temper, loaded the shopping into the Nipper, went to the top of town and paid my home phone bill, negotiated the town and went to Lidl.  This time it was more of a considered shop, everything on the list was found and blow me down, the same gypsy man was at the cashpoint and still asking for money and as I was packing, a little child was pulling at my jumper and the man was saying to her to ask for money.  The mans said that it was OK, maybe it was his way of teaching the child English but I turned to him rather sharply and said that it was not OK and he was quite taken aback.  Maybe it was OK for him but it certainly wasn't for me.  I found it all quite upsetting....it goes against my nature but I just can't give in.  I packed the shopping into the Nipper and drove home experiencing buffeting winds, lashing rain, beautiful rainbow, driving into the sun so having to drop my speed as the sun bounced off the wet road surface.    I stopped off at my little supermarket to get mayo, the bread that I like, chocolate that I'd forgotten and chicken drumsticks for the freezer.....an an éclair,   Shopping put away, kettle on, meat crammed into the freezer along with the chicken drumsticks, fire lit, coffee made and éclair demolished.   It's been a good day and at least I shall have more that out of date cheese to put in an omelette.  LN....No need for further expeditions for a while.....LN
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