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Elsa Peters
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Saturday 11th February

Out of bed by seven, the weather station time had reset itself while contacting the base station, where ever that is, so I spent around ten minutes readjusting it to real time.  I noted that the outside temperature was minus ten degrees, the inside was fifteen so not too bad, I went round opening the curtains, the sun was up and you have to take advantage of nature and its benefits.  The outside temperature didn't get any higher that minus one for most of the day but the inside one shot up to twenty eight degrees....big windows have benefits.  I didn't need to light the fire until five this evening and it's going really well.

I cooked the rest of the steak for breakfast and it was as tough as old boots.  At least I gave it a good chewing for the cat that was the beneficiary around ten this morning.  I went out into the garden and gave my clicking sound and eventually it appeared from its hiding place, I put it down in the container with a slice of bread, the meat all went and the bread remains.  My culinary pursuits didn't stop there, I sliced up another pack of young calf beef and put it in the slow cooker with onions and mushrooms and a stock cube and left it to its own devices for the rest of the day.  As for the rest of my day....I had a bonfire to get rid of the rubbish, cleaned out and laid the fire for tonight and got in two loads of logs and the day was open to opportunities but I did very little with it.  I just couldn't get motivated with the ancestry so decided to finish watching my series and at four added peas and carrots to the slow cooker and boiled about five potatoes, some for tonight and some to be fried for breakfast.  I served supper around six thirty, washed up and tidied the kitchen and I have enough left in the slow cooker for tomorrow night.  

The lack of Transponder means that I can't follow the rugby and it's really upset my schedule and I've now fallen on another series from the 'drama' section of Netflix, episode one looks good but I've now switched the tv off....I shall be ending up with square eyes.  LN...Must do something constructive tomorrow...maybe chop more starter wood.....LN
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Sunday 12th February

So I switched off the tv last night and was on the landing on the computer checking things on the ancestry chart that I've been doing.  There's a little glitch n the system and it threw up and anomily where it puts in a rogue box ready to add another parter but there's no one to add but the empty box remains.  I konw it's difficult to remove people and what I should have done was to remove the link to the rest of the chart and unfortunately I didn't think it through....at midnight last night I was still adding in the rest of the family deleted in error but one good thing...the ghost box is no longer there...result.

I finished with the computer at mindnight and decided to watch just one episode of Taboo and that went on until two this morning and now I understand why,  The main character is played by Thomas Hardy and it suddenly hit me that he reminded me of someone in Peaky Blinders and I was correct...he played the Solomon character...he's such a good actor.  Straight to bed and straight to sleep until eight thirty this morning and unfortuanately the sun was out but hiding behind the clouds so the temperature when up but not as high as it should have been.  I made breakfast, washed up, washed me, dressed and finished watching Taboo.  By now the sun had come from underneath the clouds so I put on an extra sweater, hat and gloves and after yesterday's poor effort with my Fitbit and the number of steps that I;d achieved, decided to make more effort.  I walked the garden, cleared out some of the old flower stalks from the Jerusalem artichokes, made my way to the wood store and cleared a path to the door leading to the garden.  I purposely block it while I'm away, it's a solitary corner of the garden and where I keep lawnmowers, big garden machinery and ladders.  So I accessed the small terrace, found the brush and took one of the log carriers outside and swept up the oak leaves from next doors vegetable garden, loaded them upand tipped them over the wall.  That achieved I found some wood, the big and the small choppers and filled up two containers and should have enought for half way through to next month.  I swept uo, tools away, back in the house and slow cooker on ready for supper, had a little sleep, jacket potato in the micowave and supper was served around six.  Kitchen tidied and washing up done and now the evening is mine.

The boiler is on for a bath tonight and then I'll be carrying on where I left off with ancestry.  I do miss Transponder....maybe it's time to start looking for another provider...it can't be the only one but I don't want to end up with two.  LN.....The bath calls......LN



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Monday 13th February

So fifty years today at three fifteen a.m. I'd just given birth to my 9lb 7oz boy.  I was not very with it just after the event and was waiting for the doctor to repair the damage, it had been along labour and I was tired.....but he was beautiful and well worth the effort.  Card sent by courtesy of Moon Pig, cash from B.O.M., What's app text message first thing and I'm hoping that all got delivered....it means a lot to me.

And now for the rest of my day.  The sun was up so no need to light the fire this morning, that bath that I'd promised last night didn't happen so I was going to linger and soak after I'd finished the morning chores, breakfast of bacon, sausage and egg and supper of pork, black beans went into the slow cooker and that's ready and awaits my serving it up.  Fire laid and ashes sorted and it's going now, it's not that cold outside so far but looks like it might drop quickly, the sky is cloudless and everything feels crisp.  I eventually made the bath at ten thirty and stayed soaking until just after twelve, I'd switched the boiler on so that I could keep the bath topped up and it worked.  I wrapped the bath towel round me and moved from my bathroom to upstairs bedroom and sat on the chest in the sun enjoying the warmth.  It's certainly a benefit having large windows just as long as you have curtains to draw when the sun goes down.  At one I was set for the day in warm clothing and fired up the computer on the landing ready to knock down some ancestry brick walls.  Pre and just post eighteen hundreds I'm having to go into Irish records and there are lot of people with the same surnames and even first names and lots of movement betwen Ireland and the rest of the world, England and the USA.  Every effort has to be made too ensure that you have the right person, parents and grandparents.  By four thirty I'd had enough, went down to make coffee and never came back to it, Netflix went on and I ended up watching Vanity Fair, a period piece that I'm sure I've seen before but I enjoyed it.  

Lovely sunset tonight, just on the minus, so far, so good.  No quiz night tonight courtesy of Internet tv, it's still down and looks like being so for quite some time.  Supper calls and time to switch off the computer and get back to the fire, student tomorrow so must find something interesting to work through together.  LN....And make it fun.....LN



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Tuesday 14th February

One disadvantage of living out here...the Valentine day cards don't arrive on time.  In fact I've not had one since I've been here and I like to blame the postal service...   I suppose I shall be digging out my birthday cards from previous years to make a show of it but I have managed to arrange a birthday evening meal with a few friends.  As I get older celebrating it becomes important...there might not be many left.

Seven thirty start, the sun wasn't quite up but it had the makings of a beautiful day and it didn't disappoint.  The inside temperature this monring was fourteen degrees so not too bad and the outside minus six and it could only get better.  The sun came out, the temperature started to go up inside and out and by eleven it was twenty six inside, time for a shower and wash my hair ready for my student's session later today.  Before that though I managed to make poached eggs and ham on toast and dutifully filled up my tummy to face the day.  I decided that I'd give hair conditioner a miss thinking that it might be the reason my skin gets so itchy.  By not using it I would see if it made a difference...time will tell. I'd already got a text I could use for my student.  I'd printed one out, hadn't read it properly and after ready it there was such a funny twist to it that I decided to use it.  

I set off in the Nipper at two thirty, beautiful weather and I enjoyed the ride, I hadn't been out since Friday when I went shoppings.  There were no parking spaces outside the shop so I carried on to the main carpark, parked up and walked back to the shop and guess what....all the parking places were free but not to worry, a little exercise for my Fitbit.  I satdown and had a chat with his mother untll it was three fifteen, went up to the apartment and we started the lesson at three thirty.  He enjoyed the text, we answered the questions that went with it and he really is a bright boy.  There were a set of statements and they had to put in order as to when they appeared in the text and he knocked them off in quicksticks.  There were a few new words in the text,  not many but he remembered them and what they were in Bulgarian.  His brother's girlfrined was down from Sofia, working from 'home' and on line and she sat with us at the end of the lesson and explained the story to her in English and she was very impressed.  She speaks English quite well, Turkish is her first language and Bulgarian second.  Opportunities to learn languages here are good and I suppose the internet helps considerably.

So back down to the shop for five fifteen and I was in the Nipper by five thirty heading home,  The temperature was dropping and I needed to get my fire lit so that it was comfortuable downstairs but it was still eighteen degrees in the house this evening when I got home so not bad at all.  Not sure if I want supper or not so far, I did stop off at the little supermartked for bread and saw that they had eclairs on sale so bought one of those and had it with a cup of coffee just after I'd set the fire to go and drawn the curtains.  Eight thirty my time and time to investigate other ways to watch British television over the internet, not sure if the other company is going to come up with the goods any time soon.  LN.....I've got withdrawal symptoms......LN



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Wednesday 15th February

So I was awake early this morning, made coffee and played Sudoku until it was a reasonable time to surface.  I did manage to get out to take pickies but then went back to bed...and no reason not to.  I hadn't got a plan for today which was just as well,  I had a great conversation through Messenger with my flat mate from Gibraltar going back to 1970, a slow catch-up and an invitation to go visit later in the year.  She always sends me birthday greetings on the wrong date despite several attempts by me to advise her to the contrary but as she says.....I should be grateful that she remembered...and I am.  My next catch-up was with my good friend Angela wishing me an early birthday.  Knowing the situation here with the post she sent me a photograph of the amarislis that I got her for a Christmas present, it's on its second flowering and told me that the photograph was instead of a card.....and this prompted my next move.

I bought a new printer but have had to revert to my old Brother one, I got new cartridges for it last week and so that was a job that needed doing.  It needed a full clean since I've only been printing black ink with it and my attempt at a colour ancestry chart didn't work.  I also was given some old photographs by Guljan's mum before I left for the UK...they needed resizing, printing and putting in frames and one out of three isn't bad.  Tomorrow I'll go into town, buy some more frames, install the pictures, buy my cake for the neighbours and get it ready for delivering on Friday.  

By now it was almost three when I'd sorted everything out and the morning had just gone into the ether.  It was now time to lay the fire for tonight, I had enough wood in for the next two days or so since I'm not lighting it until around five in the evening.  Minus six when I got up, twenty eight degrees inside this afternoon and it's still eighteen in and two degrees out.  I made breakfast this morning early using up the ham and having it on buttered toast.  I took one bite, thought it tasted a little suspect so it went out for the cat who came back over the wall when I called her with my clicking sound.  She's still a wild thing and very nervous byt definitely better than what she was.

A little relaxation with cream cheese and bread sticks while watching some rubbish on Netflix.  I was close to getting my head down for a few zzz's but managed to stay awake and should survive the evening.  The little Kindle is now fully charged and in the absense of TV I shall be resorting now to reading and probably re-reading some of my favourites including Bernard Cornwell's books.  Seven my time...still not interested in proper food after the rubbish I've had today so will manage until tomorrow.  LN.....Djebel at some stage tomorrow and then delivering framed old photos.......LN



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Thursday 16th February

So last night I didn't light the fire until around six, I'd let it go out while I was working on the computer on the landing and when I got downstairs it was cool, not cold so I set about relighting it.  The thing didn't want to light, the log that I'd put on didn't want to burn, I put more starter wood underneath it and it didn't want to catch so all in all a lot of effort for no return.  I settled under a blanket but it was hard looking at a no-spark woodburner so I took myself off to bed really quite early for me, settled down around ten thirty and slept like a babe until six thirty this morning.  Fitbit liked it....I got good sleep scores for last night.

Another fristy frosty start and the sun was up around seven this morning and burnt the frost off eventually.  I threw bread out for the birds, it was a few days old and time it went, cleaned out the frying pan and set about making a bacon and egg sandwich for breakfast,  I put some washing in, that's dried inside, it was too much effort to peg it out and I've just moved it to the bathroom to finish off now that the fire's going.  I wrote a shopping list, I decided to buy the cake for the ladies in the village today so that I can deliver mid morning without having to go into Djebel to get it, new batteries for the bathroom scales, I got on them last night and didn't weigh a thing, wasn't sure if it was the battery or the weighscales so I went for the cheaper option so on the list it went,  I also needed to get some more picture frames and plastic carrier bags for the kitchen rubbish, and remembered that they sell them in the coffee shop in Djebel...where else.  

Before I set off I had a catch-up call to one of my dear friends to ask her about a program she uses to write up her ancestry charts.  She gave me the names of a few that I'd read about so nothing is concrete yet...I need to do some more digging.  She said that she'd been thinkiing about coming out here for a break and she'd be most welcome, I can vacate the downstairs bedroom, there's a toilet and shower room downstairs so she wouldn't have to negotiate the stairs unless she wanted to.  She has slight mobility problems which wouldn't be so bad here....I'm sure I'll be able to cope.  I also got on to the computer and sourced a couple of holidays that I'm interested in, the one that I missed out on last year because of Covid and them canelling is on,,,Lisbon, Seville, Tangier and other Moroccan cities ending up in Marrakesh.  The price is OK so I'm going ahead with it in October.  The next one I looked at is going to Tunisia in May or June, single room at only fifty lev more than the double rate and flight is from Plovdiv.  I've decided that life is what you make it and i've got to broaden my horizons....the spirit is willing and the flesh is not weak yet.

So off to Djebel, I couldn't park where I wanted to, the road was blocked by a huge crane and a lorry so I parked outside the lev shop near the mosque.  They didn't have the
picture frames that I wanted, I walked to the cashpoint and took my money, bought the cake from my favourite cake shop and walked back to the car.  I did buy picture frames but not the size that I need so I might head into Kardjali tomorrow morning. I remembered the batteries and the scales work, the cake is in the fridge thawing out for tomorrow and I did have to cut a slice out of it for quality control purposes.  The upside is that I shan't be cooking supper tonight...no space for it.  I was about to take a photo of the sunset when suddenly I heard the cows galloping across the land looking south and I noticed that they were being chased by a very small deer so I swifty focussed the camera and managed to get the photo.  I've seen this once before on the village road but I really don't understand the behaviour...I'll hve to ask the farmer next time I see him.

As I said fire lit and going well, scales now that I've reset them to kilograms are working fine and indicating that I have to lose weight...nothing new there then.  Time to move down to the television to see if I can find something decent on Netflix and switch off the computer.  I've done a little more digging on my ancestry search and managed to get back to around seventeen eighty with one family and into parish records which I love looking at especially Marriage Banns.....lots of information there.  LN.....Down to the fire and the comfort of the sofa.......LN



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Friday 17th February

So onward and upwards into the new year.....let's see what this new birthday year brings.  I've had a really good day.  The cake that I test drove last night was carved up and delivered around the village this morning and the photographs that I'd resized were delivered to Gulcan's mum in the next village and that entailed sitting down with them for a catch up.  I drove back to my village and the ladies were waiting on the bench for the lunch delivery so I waited with them, gave out the rest of the cake and then carried on to one of the houses where the daughter made me coffee, I drank the coffee while they ate the cake.  I was home for about two so quite a long morning, I planted snowdrops that I'd been given earler and found out some pots and planted up two honeysuckle that I'd rooted in water and also three winter flowering jasmine that have been promised out already.  I checked out the ditch outside of my wall and noticed that quite a bit of debris had gathered from the last downpour we'd had so I got the rake and was clearing it out when Zelinger and one of the other ladies appeared with presents for me.  Zelinger had brought me a pair of pyjamas and a pair of men's socks and she tried to convince me that they were for ladies but I said that it was written that they were definitely for men but she was having none of it even though it was written in English on the packaging.

Off they went and at three I decided that I would drive into Djebel and buy the other cake so that it would be thawed out in time for after the meal.  I dropped it off at the car shop where it would sit until it was time to go to the restaurant.  No point in carrying it home to bring it out again,  The rest of the cake from yesterday I took to my other Gulcan's mother working in her little shop so that they could have it when they got home.  I'd invited them for the meal but they had other fish to fry so to speak and couldn't make it.....we can do it another time.  I went home, got changed and was in the car for six fifteen, the table was booked for six thirty and the family were waiting in the shop, I parked outside and we walked to the restaurant together.  They'd bought me prresents as well as flowers so they stayed in the car and I opened them when I got home and messaged them to say thank you.  In the bag was a special card from my young student telling me that I'm the best English teacher ever.....I'm probably his only one outside of school but he's very special too and a fabulous thirteen year old football coach.

Home for ten thirty and it's been a wonderful birthday, nice company, relaxed even though we were speaking half English/ half Bulgarian.  Shopping tomorrow in Kardjali for some more picture frames.....I somehow acquired more photos to sort out....word gets around.  LN....No fire going so time to go to bed......LN.  



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Saturday 18th February

Another full on day with messages and what beautiful weather we're having.  Another great sunrise, I noticed that the tits were looking for food in the dish on the terrace so I went out to fill it up in my PJ's and the sun was fibbing to me...it was ccccold out there so I didn't stay long.  I meandered through the morning, washed and dressed for nine and today I was taking my neighbour into Kardjali, heading for the shop that sells picture frames.  I didn't bother with breakfast, too much food last night and cake in general, I was going to have an easy day on the intake.  I drove down to her house in the lower square and waited outside.  I'd got it wrong...I thought we were dropping stuff off at her apartment instead we were picking it up from the apartment and bringing it back to her mother's house.  We stopped off at Djebel, there'd been an incident in my village that I'd heard about yesterday for the flower shop lady in Djebel and I didn't connect the two.  The lady that I was taking to Kardjali was involved but asked me if I knew the lady that had the flower shop and I said that I did, whe said that she wanted to see her.  I stopped in Djebel, we went to the shop but unfortunately my friend wasn't there so that's for another day.

We carried on to Kardjali, went to the frame shop and I bought several, my friend also picked up a few items that she needed for home.  We went to the apartment at the other end of town, managed to park up near and I was surprised how big it was with quite a large terrace outside.  She'd got leeks planted up in a bucket which she cleaned off and put into a carrier to take with her, we stopped for a coffee and stood out on the terrace in the sun drinking it.  Eventually she finished what she had to do, we packed the Nipper up and carried on to Kaufland where I had a mini shop but she had an extensive one, she had transport to carry it back to the village.  I did manage to find some very cheap tiny daffodils just coming into flower so I had two for me and bought another two for my student's mum and would deliver them when we were driving back through Djebel which I did.

I drove down to her mother's house and dropped her off with the shopping, she gave me a bag of leeks and tomorrow I shall make leek and potato soup and I bought blue cheese to go in it......delicious and I've not done that since I've been here but it was a firm favourite in the UK.  Shopping unpacked and put away, I cooked a pork schnitzel for a late lunch with some chippies so now I don't have to cook this evening.....I've finished for the night.  Fire going and the house warmed up, I'm still looking for that something on Netflix that I can get my teeth into so maybe it's time to start looking in earnest.  LN......It's been a relaxing day and hopefully the weather will be good enought for gardening tomorrow.....LN



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Sunday 19th February

It seems to have been a very long day.  I was quite early to bed, didn't manage to get off straight away, did a few Sudoku and eventually nodded off waking just before seven.  I made coffee,sat at the table in the stairwell admiring my daffodils,  they are just so sweet.  I've got the same ones in the garden but they're not ready to bloom yet and these will follow them into the garden for next year.  I contemplated my day, the weather looked promising so I found a good load of washing and thought I'd try out the new Sensitive Persil that I'd bought yesterday to see if it will stop the itchy skin that I seem to be developing and stop me scratching holes in myself.  Worth a try at least.  Before that though it was breakfast time so I reheated one of the schnitzels that I'd cooked last night and not managed to eat and had it with baked beans on toast.  Washing up done, washing in, more coffee made and back to my perch in the sun until the washing had finished, made it to the first floor, washed and dressed and by that time the washing was ready to peg out.  I toyed wth the idea of onlyputting the heavy stuff out and the rest would go on the airer but instead it all went on the line and was out there until four this afternoon.

Log baskets and log carriers filled up and fire laid ready for this evening and now I was twiddling my thumbs as to what to do next.  I put Netflix on and started to watch a film and immediately I knew the main character and was having trouble placing him and then it dawned on me he was out of Game of Thrones.  I couldn't get it out of my mind while I was watching it so flicked around until I found something to fall asleep to but that didn'w work for long, Haciber was at the door with a packet of coffee for me.  By now it was getting on for four so I collected the washing from the line, took it upstairs, sorted out the drawers where I keep most of it in the bathroom, hung up the rest and settled in to ancestry chasing and brought down a few more brick walls.

Fire lit, curtains drawn, I'm now in for the evening, thinking about supper but not really hungry so it will probably be a sandwich and maybe a toasted one.  Lovely sunset tonight, it started off gentle and then it got more intense which probably means that there's more dust in the atmosphere or the weather is changing.  LN......It might be a bath night since I now have no Transponder TV to waste my time with.....LN



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Monday 20th February

A riduclously early start and coulnn't settle again so made coffee and went back to bed with the Kindle and Sudoku.  I soon came round to seven o'clock, more coffee and moved into the lounge and to the table in the stairwell and started looking through the numerous prinouts of ancestry and found the one that I was looking for covering all of the main connections, through marriage, without the numerous children hanging on.  I just need to photograph it and send it over explaining that if they want children from specific families, I can sent that on too.  I made breakfast of fried mushrooms on toast, more coffee, played around with wrist bllod pressure monitor and eventually got it to work.  Everything is good, I haven't taken any tablets since I've been back and everything in the garden is rosy so far and said with my fingers crossed,  difficult to type so better uncross them.

Washed, dressed, prepared the fire for tonight and filled up the log basket.  Moved on to the upstairs computer and started to fill in a few date gaps on the chart and that proved more difficult than it looked at first glance.  There are some names that are easy to find and others that there are so many of them that you have to go through several listings to find the right one.  I tired of that so went downstairs and phoned one of my besties that I knew would have sent me a birthday card but to date it hasn't arrived.  I explained that I'd issued a warrant complaining to the post office about lost cards, three to date, well it will be when my son's card doesn't arrive tomorrow.....and it won't ..oh me of little faith.  I opened up some wisteria seed pods that I'd put in to soak, the seeds are now sitting in a split bottle with damp kitchen paper below and above...I'm told this is the best way to get them to germinate.  I've got four of them in the bottle and fingers crossed, it might work.

Felt pretty sleepy this afternoon after my early start so settled on the sofa around two and started to watch a new six parter on Netflix.  I think I slept through one episode but caught up with the thread and fnished it by five.  I could have done so much today but there's the rest of the week to fit it all in.  Fire going at six and the house is toasty, I've taken chicken sings out of the freezer but I guess they'll be cooked tomorow, I'm not really hungry so far, maybe something else later.  Student tomorrow so I better start looking out for another interesting text..it's all go here.  LN.....It will be another evening of Netflix...bring back Transponder...I'm missing my quiz nights....LN



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