Sunday 1st June

Seven start this morning and I more or less wasted the morning.  I did make poached eggs on toast for breakfast and sent a photo so the garage could see that I was actually using the eggs that she supplied.  I've done her a reciprocal deed tonight, she has four litres of milk fresh from the cow. in the fridge tonight and being delivered in the morning.    

I ran out of steam around eleven thirty so put on Netflix and watched a very peculiar film featuring Tom Cruise and really not sure what to make of it when I'd finished watching it, I didn't leave a review, just switched the TV off.....I was beginning to feel guilty about my inertia.

I went outside and took up position in the sun on the bench and for once there was heat in the sun and only very light clouds so maybe there is going to be a change in the weather and about time too.  I then changed gear and first job was to clear out more of the pots, I fetched the sweeping brush from the woodstore, swept off the little house terraces, moved some of the pots on to the wall and then decided it was time that the swinging bench was moved outside and I remembered how to get it out of the house and on to the terrace, it has to be angled through the door.  While I was at it I brought out the other sun bed that's become a firm fixture under the wild plum near the low wall and that doesn't need anything doing to it unlike the swinging sofa thingy.   I cleared out the weeds from the bottom of the set of stems going down to the garden from my terrace, removed the poppy that was looking very straggly, found a concrete tile in a place where it really wasn't necessary and now it in the garden between the steps and I have a blue bucket of flowers instead of a patch of weeds.  I moved on to the short wall and started to clear the weeds from the rose garden and the shrubs that have been neglected through lack of mobility earlier in the year and it's looking better but tomorrow is another day.

I walked over the road to apologise to Avatar, I'd forgotten that I was going to ask Hassan a farmer from the next village if he could supply me with milk for the garage but the message back was that he needed his milk for his new calves so hadn't got any to sell.  Got it sorted, my garden lady sells it to the morning lorry and so I asked her and she delivered this evening as I was deadheading the roses by the front gave.  It was still warm so I was given instructions to wait until it goes cold and then put it in the fridge overnight.  That's my first job after I've posted the update.

Jacket potato done in the microwave and filled with tuna mayo and I'm eating it as I'm typing, tomorrow I'm delivering the milk and then carrying on to Kardjali to buy the tickets for the Sofia-Kardjali journey on the tenth.  I can pay for them, take a photo and that will save them having to work through the process of getting them and explaining which desk etc.  Over to the doctors to get the next form for my next session of physio and then shopping in Lidl.  I'm going to try and avoid Kaufland like the plague....it's just so unfriendly after the changes and there's no route to follow, it's so haphazard.  They'll be doing another refit soon if they've got any sense.  LN......Time to put that milk in the fridge and have a bath.......LN

Monday 2nd June

Woke up at five with the light on, the Kindle on the floor so did nothing more than switch the light off, snuggle down again and slept through until seven thirty....and picked up the Kindle.  I checked the milk that I'd put in the fridge yesterday and there was so much cream on the top, it looked very 'rich'.  I'd let my friend know that I'd managed to get milk for her for making yogurt and promised to deliver it this morning.  I made toast for breakfast, suddenly when I tried to eat on the side that I'm having trouble under the crown and taking antibiotics for, there was a sucking sensation and I realised that it was getting quite loose.  Maybe it will be out before the dentist visit on Friday....one way to save money.  You know what it's like, you keep probing and prodding with your tongue, I should really leave it alone.

I was washed and dressed by nine and in the Nipper by nine and heading into Djebel.  My mission today was to confirm the time of the buses on the day that my grand-daughter arrives in Sofia for a holiday with a friend and I was aware that the bus might fill up so wanted to try and purchase the tickets from Kardjali which I managed to do.  The young lady was very understanding, she kept the tickets and attached them to the booking sheet, I took a photograph of the tickets and have already sent them on, the tickets are paid for so all they have to do is to get a taxi from the airport to the bus-station and make their way to departure point, show the photograph to the driver and their seats are numbered.  It's a bit like wearing a belt and braces but it comes with age.

I walked back to the shop that I bought the strimmer from and bought another three reels of strimmer line, they appear not to make the 1.4mm as a separate item.  I also found some wooden storage boxes reduced to half price and picked up five for twenty five lev...and storage boxes are always useful or so I keep telling myself.  Back in the Nipper and I made my way to Lidl mainly to buy butter, I was down of half a packet, bought cream cheese, mince meat and a steak for when I've had my tooth out and can celebrate chewing again.  I did forget the Cheddar cheese but I know I shall have another visit to Lidl before my visitors arrive.  I unpacked the shopping and put it away, had a little sleep and then wrote the message to my grand-daughter and attached the photo, put a load of washing in and now it's drying in the conservatory.  I've just walked the garden, found a few plants that shouldn't be where they're flowering and had the thought that the Red Hot Pokers should last much longer than they do.  Tomorrow I'm gardening , clearing some of the poppies that appear to have stopped flowering, most of the cornflowers and a heck of a lot of weeds, bindweed and sticky willy that seems to be everywhere.  LN.....Out with the strimmer, I'll definitely be on tortoise watch......LN

Tuesday 3rd June

I had a very restless night.  The tooth that's coming out on Friday has decided it doesn't want to wait until then and is trying to come out on its own.  My tongue is still playing with it and won't seem to let it rest.  I woke firstly at three fifteen and tried to settle again and couldn't and was still awake at five thirty so got up and started my day.  I was making bacon and egg for breakfast at seven thirty, more coffee and put the beetroot in the slow cooker after finding the instructions on the internet and that would become supper...eventually.

It was such a good day that I decided to put the rest of the garden furniture out and spent ages searching for the quilt cover that I usually use for the sofa and like last year, I didn't find it.  Instead I used one that I'd bought from my charity shop in Kardjali, it is almost red in colour leaning towards orange and covers the seat and the back rest.  I think I mentioned that I'd need to do work on the swinging sofa that normally sits on the little house terrace and I think I've worked out how to do it, started to put it into practice using some plastic grid that I can use to repair the seat support and then take it over the frame and support the back or the seat.  I just need to think about how to 'stitch it' all together so that it's got the strength built into it.  I needed to do some gardening but it seemed like a monumental task but I bit the bullet and started by trimming the bushes and tidying up the shapes.  I then checked out the strimmers and lawn mowers, had another attempt to start the petrol one but firstly changing the petrol and I should really go and buy a new one.  This one has done around fifteen years of service and maybe it will never be back to being as good as it was.  I started pm the little house grass using the new strimmer but the cord kept getting stuck despite using the correct one for the machine, resorted to the very old grass cutter without the grass catcher and eventually resorted to the little yellow one and I've managed to do three quarters of it and hopefully will finish the rest tomorrow if the weather holds.  It did cloud over this afternoon, looked as if we might have a few spots of rain but it blew over and the sun came out again.

I cleared up around five thirty, all tools locked away, the little strimmer is now ready loaded for tomorrow or I might be able to use the little mower instead.  There are less weeds towards the bottom.  I rescued the beetroot from the slow cooker, I'd forgotten all about it, peeled the three of them and had one of them sliced up with a can of tuna and mayo followed by a chocolate pudding.  Washing up done, I settled in front of Netflix and this is the reason the update is late.  My early start warranted an early snooze and I should really be lying in the bath, easing out my aches and pains.....and that's where I'm going now.  LN...Just after ten my time but I need to soak for a while if I'm to finish the grass tomorrow......LN

Wednesday 4th June

It's been a funny old day.  I wasn't sure what to do, the mower needed a new blade so first job was to try and remove the old one and that proved to be quite a problem.  I seemed to bring all tools into play including the hammer but to no avail.  I soaked it with rust remover until I could go back to it but I've just attacked it at six thirty this evening and it still wouldn't budge.  I might be taking it to the garage tomorrow where there are men who know how to do these things.  The idea was to buy a new one from Kardjali today but no one seems to have them, the new fangled idea being strimmers, not mowing machines and only the really modern ones are on sale so I shall ask the garage if they can sharpen this one if it's now beyond economical repair.

As for the rest of today, I stopped off at the garage shop to see if she wanted anything from Kardjali and she didn't so I carried on and first stop was the hardware shop where I discovered that the blades were no longer available.  I went into Kaufland and was still confused with the new layout so tried to exit where two women were working and I was directed very angrily to Information desk so I asked politely again and again the word 'information desk' were shouted so I thanked her for nothing and exited from the in access point.  I seem to think that they forget who pays their wages, the customers and having written customer service manuals for supermarkets, this store and several in others in the area forget.

Next back in the Nipper and over to the Polyclinic to obtain my document so that I could have another seven days of physio.  I've got thirty days to hand it in and get it underway but I'll do it on Friday when I got to have my tooth extracted.  The doctor called me in without me having logged in at the reception desk since the lady there used to work as a nurse for my doctor and told me to go straight through.  There was only one person waiting, another one came along and then tried to push in front of me when it was my turn....the doctor took over....I was in.  I've another prescription for tablets that are supposed to suppress reactions that I'm having to, what appears to be most tablets, so I'll give them a try.

I stopped off at Lidl and bought Chedder cheese, I'd forgotten it the other day when I went shopping, bread and a few more items and was amazed when the bill only totalled  thirty five lev.....very reasonable for what I bought.  I drove home after I picked up my jar of yogurt from the garage shop, put the rubbish for the container from the conservatory and deposited it down the bottom rubbish containers, drove home, lay on the sofa watching Netflix, promptly went to sleep and woke up at five this afternoon.  Just watered the pots and noticed that the Oleander have really picked up and are about to flower, the moon is up, the sky is clue with not a cloud in sight after a cloudy afternoon..   LN..... It's twenty seven degrees inside and out so maybe it's about to settle into summer....and about time too......LN

Thursday 5th June

Seven thirty this morning but I didn't go to bed until two thirty......first part of my sleep was on the sofa, second in bed but it took me ages to get off when I took to my couch.  I'm thinking it's about time I took the winter duvet off and substituted it with one more commensurate for the season.  I was still out in the garden with my PJ's on when my first pancakes of the day arrived.  It was the daughter in law of Gold Tooth who has gone to a higher resting place, two pancakes and she apologised saying that she just couldn't get them right, and blamed everything including the flour.  Second lot arrived from Star Mush daughter who's over from Turkey for the holiday.  She managed to serve up smaller ones but with serviettes, I thanked her and wished her Chestit Byram and I took those out to the garden, sat on the bench to do them justice.

I still wasn't dressed at this point and lounging on the sofa when there was another knock on the outside door and one of the young lads came in. leaving his shoes at the door.  He was carrying a bag, delved into it and brought out a parcel of meat for an animal killed for the memory of in this case, his grandmother who I found out later died two years ago.  I tried to ask him who it was in memory of at the time but he didn't understand much Bulgarian and my Turkish is very limited so I asked later when I went over to see my Avatar and demanded to know where my pancakes were from her.  My first pancake lady was sitting in the garden with Avatar and her daughter and I took up the fourth chair and we sorted out where the meat had come from.  Avatar wanted to make me pancakes but I laughed and I said it was too late...the damage had been done.  At this point Haciber joined us, all the good chairs were taken so I offered up mine to Haciber but I was told to sit down and at this Haciber went back to her house next door and brought round one of her chairs.  It really wasn't very stable on the grass so I found a reasonable spot and told her to sit and not move.  We were under the shade of the pear tree but as the sun moved round I kept getting bits exposed and everyone was very protective telling me to move position to get more shade.....not my forte.  I knew I had lots of work to do when I faced up to doing it and that would be in full sun.

I set off for home around one thirty, Haciber got up to leave so I picked up her chair and took it back to her house for her.  She's not got a lot of mobility but I still feel sorry for her and help where I can.  I was a little concerned that I'd not heard anything from my grand-daughter since I sent her the information about buying the tickets for her onward from the airport.  I checked the 'last seen' on WhatsApp and there was nothing listed so I dropped her another message, still nothing back so I thought a nudge from her mother might do the trick and it did.  I received a replay from my grand-daughter explaining everything, she said that she was busy writing essays for university and was in a rush to get them finished, next thing she was phoning me and to cap it all my son phoned me and I went through everything with him.  I also had a long message from my daughter-in-law but at least it's sorted.  Just need to sort out accommodation for the night before the early morning flight, my grand-daughter has decided that she would like to 'walk' Sofia to get a feel for the place.  

Phone 'blitz' over I headed out to the garden, worked on the overgrown beds and stone surround gardens and all that's left to do is the grass.  Dentist tomorrow for the extraction at nine in the morning so I'll be boots blacked and early to get a parking place, it's market day.  I don't think it's going to take long, I seem to have eased a lot of it away from the gum but will want to keep the tooth since it's gold capped.  LN....Too late to take photos and the clouds have rolled over, heater on for a bath and then bed-time....LN

Friday 6th June

I was a wake early, I didn't want to miss my dental appointment.  I don't really like dentists but the cap and tooth had got to the stage that if the dentist didn't pull it out I would force it out myself with my tongue.  I was in the Nipper just after eight fifteen and pulled up outside the dentist surgery, the door was open but there was only the receptionist in attendance.  She thought that I was in to make an appointment and I said that I already had one and she asked which dentist I was with and I replied that I didn't know.  My dentist arrived in his shorts surprised to see me early and he changed into his jeans before we went into the surgery.  The other dentist arrived and he looked like the older brother of the one that I was with but he stayed seated.

Into the chair, asked lots of questions in Bulgarian and it probably would have been better if he'd asked me before he'd given me the first of three injections.  He asked me if I'd had problems with my heart and I was tempted to tell him only that it was broken when I was twenty three but I didn't think he would understand the joke in broken Bulgarian.  I mentioned that I was on a blood thinner tablet but only a very small one but at this point he had his pliers in his hand and was going for it.  I sat back, closed my eyes and let him get on with the job.  The first part was easy, the crown and the first root was out and I thought he had finished but no.  He struggled to get the second root out and again I thought he'd finished but he said that there were three prongs so one to go.  Eventually everything was put on the tray in front of him, I was rinsing furiously and was waiting for the blood transfusion van to pull up but it stopped quite quickly.  I was ushered from the chair with the gap packed with gauze went to the cash desk to pay and I was amazed that he only charged me sixty leva to take it out and was expecting much more.  He mentioned that I should not be doing any strenuous exercise today and gave me leaflet of instructions to follow....in Bulgarian so my first stop was the car shop for a translation.  

I drove down to the garage, I'd thought that there was a problem with the exhaust, it sounded noisier than normal but he put it over the pit and there was nothing wrong with it, next job was to get the outside cleaned.  The garage now has five new puppies, mother was being very protective but these little ones were jumping up and at one point I was a little bit on edge that I was going to get tripped up but managed to stay upright.  I paid up, stopped off at the supermarket and bought a bottle of mouthwash, went over to see Avatar and took some honeysuckle over and wished her a happy holiday for her and her family.  I sat there in the sun and quite a few visitors arrived and left and after a while I thought that the sofa would be the place that I should spend the rest of my afternoon...and it was.

I watered the garden although I think nature might do it again later on.  It's clouded over, feels very thundery and as I went out to take something outside I noticed that there was something wedged between the two gate posts and normally nothing ever is delivered.  Curiously I looked at it and reckons it's come from a Evangelical movement in Bulgaria and since I'm the only non-Muslim in the village, it was a long way to travel for one person.  Unfortunately it's all in Bulgarian but on the inside I did see that it's come from the Macedonian World Mission, it's the second edition and all rights are reserved so I don't think I shall be spreading the word.

Just after seven thirty my time, I shan't spend the evening translating the leaflet but won't be late to bed this evening, remember I'm on a countdown to visitors but today couldn't be helped. Not too hungry and was told to only eat cold foods so it looks like a banana this evening and water.  LN.....I managed to keep the part of the tooth with the gold crown attached but would need the other one out to make anything that was worth the effort making....LN

Saturday 7th June

I was watching a series last night but at midnight, with only two episodes to go, I called it a night and went to bed.  I was awake at six thirty, stripped my bed and put the winter nest in the washing machine and it has now gone away for the summer and will obviously come out again for the winter....god willing.  I think the last six months, two falls and at one point I thought it was a knockout....I've found it hard to bounce back this year.  I think having this back tooth out yesterday was something else I had to cope with but fortunately my darling daughter saved the day and sent me over a NHS patient leaflet about after care.  As I said yesterday, I'd received one from my dentist but it seemed to loose a lot in translation.  I had rested up yesterday but this brought it home to me that I wasn't to be overactive in the next twenty four hours and by nine my time was up....and so to think about my day.

I didn't make breakfast, couldn't chew anything so had water for most of the day but checked out the 'gap' and it appears to be healing already.  I mentioned to my daughter that I shall be talking to the dentist about implants and said I thought a thirty four 'b' cup would be alright and I heard a splutter of coffee from her end of the phone.  It's good, my sense of humour settles her mind and makes us both feel better about the situations I appear to be getting into as I get older.  I brought the little strimmer out and did the yard and tried out the little old mower and the new one to see if it would miraculously work but it didn't.  I gave up, went in the house, had a nap on the sofa, woke up and at eleven I was out of my gardening clothes, into 'town clothes', into the Nipper and heading for the hardware shop in Kardjali.  If I wanted to get the grass done, I would have to invest in a new  mower.  Parked up easily and my lovely friendly man was working in the section and came up and offered assistance.  Now this isn't normal in this shop but between us I settled for an electric, even though I prefer petrol, so really need to investigate performance ratings if I'm going to invest in a larger more expensive one.  We found one boxed, he took it to the cash desk for me and even carried it out to my car which was marked about fifty meters away.  I thanked him, drove home, left the mower in the drive in the box, sat down for half an hour dog dozing, opened the box and the machine needed to have handle, wheels and the grass box sorting and I froze.  I read the vague instructions, used a magnifying glass to see the stupid little diagrams and froze at the thought of doing it.  This isn't normal me but the dentist yesterday had put me back into 'old lady' brain and no real food for a while because from the tooth, I didn't think I could manage it so I went to sleep.  One hour later I had another try, only got two spacers left and will get round to those when I have more time, grass tested it and it's good.  It's a mid range machine so has the power and five height settings easily selected and fairly light to handle.  I managed to do the side grass that I'd attempted this morning, everything is packed away and tomorrow I should manage to achieve the grass cutting and then on to final preparations before my granddaughter arrives with a friend.

I've boiled four eggs and made a bowl of eggs mayonnaise and that should put something inside me without having to 'chew' much.  I'm having to move everything to one side, can't interfere with the healing process.  LN.....Early to bed and early to rise, out with the grass mower and that should really set my neighbours over from Türkiye up for the day.....LN

Sunday 8th June

Five thirty start and I didn't realise how early it was until I checked the time and it was only half six.  I'd got washing in the machine, sorted out the coat rack in the conservatory, put the one beach chair from the conservatory into the Nipper boot and sat out and had a drink of water on the bench in the sun.  There wasn't a cloud in the sky for a change and I knew that I would have to be out with the mower before the sun started pounding out its heat and just get on with the job.  I wasn't looking forward to it, there was a lot to do and with the old petrol I could knock off the job in three hours more or less but that had a very wide cutting blade so took less effort except that it was heavy to push.  I need to find someone who can have a look at it, someone who understands engines and those are difficult to find for me in the area.

I more or less started where I finished off last night, started at nine thirty and finished about twelve and managed to knock off the whole of the main house grass and I've renamed one that I missed 'Lucky'.....lucky to be alive.  It was another baby tortoise, it could be the same one as before, it I spot it again I must get another nail varnish out, just so I recognise it.  Cracked shell was out and about as was Rosy, Blue and Green so I've purposely left most of the poppies and cornflowers on the perimeters of the grass so that they have somewhere to shelter and forage.  I'm not sure if Rosy was making a play for Blue, I didn't stay around to check, I had too much to do.  

I rested between sessions, I came in at twelve thirty after moving everything into the shade under the tree by the woodstore terrace, unplugging the electric cable and putting the mower away for a rest.  I settled down on the sofa, found a film on Netflix that I hadn't seen before and realised that a film has a set time and you're not tempted to check out the next episode.  Sometimes it takes determination to switch the TV off.  It finished around four thirty so with grit in my bones I set everything up again and finished the half of the little house grass that I'd left the other day and eventually met up with the bit that I'd done around five thirty.  It was hard going, the new mower hasn't stood up to the treatment well, it seemed to be loosing power and I'll see what it's like when I try it again.  I only bought it yesterday so thought it would last longer.  Maybe I do need to spend more money and get a petrol one, at least if they go, they go on for quite a long time.  The new one also seemed to smell hot as if there wasn't enough air going through....now what's that in Bulgarian when I take it back??!!

I've finished the egg mayo that I made yesterday in two sandwiches eaten at my first break and my end of session for tonight.  It was quite easy to chew on the opposite side from the extraction and I made a luke warm coffee and sat on the terrace after I'd watered the pots and the garden.  Again I didn't realise how late it was , after eight when I locked up and locked in for the tonight. The garden does look good.  The yuccas this year have been exceptional, the shrubs have all flowered profusely and the Hebbes in various places in the garden are just coming into flower and the Hypericum ground cover has massive yellow blooms on it.  It's a pest but a beautiful one.

Now for a bath and it won't be long before I'm curled up in bed and not on the sofa tonight.  I want to sign up for more physio tomorrow when my granddaughter has left. check out the market for vegetables since one of my visitors is a vegetarian so I'll have to look out my cookbooks for ideas and I also want a few sun daisies for the terrace.  I've got one or two pots that have nothing in them yet.  LN....Just a few of the garden and one of the moon showing just how clear the sky is tonight....and one of the sunset....LN

Monday 9th June

It was another early start and by seven I was ready for a nap.  I'd done a load of washing and it was out on the airer but the sun was so hot when I went out to the terrace that I dragged the airer after me and left it to dry in the sun.  I've given up with the washing line, it came inside with buglies on it sometimes and the ants were using the washing line as a tight rope so hence the move to dry most things inside.  I wrote my shopping list, planned to go to the physio to book my next sessions but instead, she didn't want the documentation only that I'd got it and I was to see the doctor on the eighteenth of this month.  No sooner the word that the blow here...beats the NHS hands down.

I popped into the garage shop for a quick catch up, it was market day and I'd managed to find a space on the central car-park which was a surprise.  I had two things to find....an electronic water pump for the eleven litre bottles, I'm tired of the others and always loose half of the pipe so that no water comes out.  The second item was a brass thing to screw on to the outside tap so that I could attach the hose.  The old one is exactly that.... and connectors are difficult to remove.  In the first shop the man didn't understand what I wanted so I thought it best if I took the old one in but in the second shop, the lady said that it had been replaces with plastic version so I bought one and she's right.  I suppose it wasn't economically viable to make it out of brass in our throw away society.  As for the pump, the first shop didn't have one in stock but the second one did so I bought one.  Too many people around for me this morning, the market was heaving, lots of people heaving around the fruit and veg so I decided to leave it and to go down to my little supermarket.  This also was very crowded, lots of people over from Turkey for Byram and stocking up on goodies to take home,  The exchange rate has moved in favour of shopping locally not Turkey.

I was home by eleven, the washing was dry so I brought it back inside, I put the shopping in the kitchen, took an ice-cream from my purchases and sat on the sofa on the terrace and finished it off.  Went inside and collected the plastic connector and fitted it in place, one job done and thought I'd tackle the water bottle pump.  I took it out of the box, hadn't realised that you have to charge it with a USB connector and what a good idea.  There was enough charge in it to try it out so I connected it up eventually, put a glass underneath it and pressed the button on top and I thought that it would stop when you removed your finger.....wrong, you have to press it again to stop it.  There was water everywhere but now I've got the hang of it it's fine but it doesn't screw on to the bottle, just sits on the top.  

At this point I thought I heard a beating of wings in the chimney or in the old cooker in the kitchen so I took everything off the top of it, removed the plates on the top, the ash can and no sign of the bird.  I'd prepared everything so that if there was one there it could fly out of the kitchen window and straight out of the conservatory door that I'd opened.....and nothing.  I went into the shower room and yes, it was in the cleaning area of the chimney so this is another process to go through.  I shut the doors into the rooms off the hall, drew the curtain across the stairs, removed the cover from the flue box and out it flew, headed for the curtain rail, realised the door to daylight was open, tried to get through the glass and then notice the door at the end of the corridor....and off it flew.  I put the little petchka back together again, put the shopping away, put the washing away, settled on the sofa and went to sleep for an hour or so.  I realised I'd refilled my energy reserves so got the hoover out, cleaned downstairs and upstairs and all I have to do tomorrow is to mop through and flick the dust to new places.

The wind got up this afternoon and now it's clouded over...it looked like that hot summer sun has faded away...very short lived.  I've just walked the garden and all the tortoise are obviously filling their energy reserves and the only activity was on the lavender at the bottom of the garden, the humming moth was fliting like something demented but the tiny beautiful butterflies were mainly resting and probably too tired after a busy day.  Time for me to think about supper, I'm still on soft foods for a few more days before I can take to crunching breakfast cereal, fried bacon and fried bread.  LN.....Things get unfair as you get old........LN

Tuesday 10th June

Well it's been a full on day with lots of WhatsApp messages between my granddaughter and myself.  It started at five thirty when she wanted reminding on how to get from the airport to the bus station so I reiterated most of the steps in bullet format and everything seemed to work fine.

I carried on sorting the house and only had to make one journey into Djebel when I discovered that my mop bucket had somehow got cracked at the base so I had to buy a new one and then back to it.  The large garden umbrella went up but not easily, at one point I was pivoting on the terrace and holding on to the balcony support so that I didn't double flip into the honeysuckle but all's well that ends well.

We had messages going at the crucial point and I followed their journey.  The bus left Sofia at 18.00 hours and they arrived in Kardjali at 21.45 and I was there to meet them.  Supermarket stop in Djebel and stocked up with goodies and a few basics including juices and some alcohol for the youngsters and tomorrow it might be a trip to the pool if the weather is good....They've had a long day today so more of a rest day for the both of them and I really fancy swimming as well.  Sorry this is late....we've just demolished two packets of crisps and a tub of cream cheese and now to bed.  LN....I hope the dogs stay silent and don't disturb my guests....LN