Thursday 30th April

Another disturbed night, I was late to bed, couldn't sleep when I got there, got up and watched more television and eventually dropped off around two this morning.  I slept well until six thirty and haven't felt too good all day.  I opened the curtain that divides the lounge from the stairwell to keep the heat in and cat was sitting in the rain looking in through the window so I went to the kitchen.  I found the two drumsticks that I'd not got round to eating, stripped the meat from them and put them in the dish with some of the biscuits and it moved away from me, goodness knows why, I've never been aggressive towards it.  Maybe it's just a scaredy-cat but it did finish everything in the dish.

I checked my blood pressure using both machines since I didn't believe the first one but they more or less came up with the same results and it was high so I've decided to go back on the tablets that were prescribed for me.  There's been stress lately because of the garden but everything else is OK.  I put the hoover back together again, the filter had dried overnight, I'd left the plastic bits on the low table in front of the fire and now it's ready for the next time.  It's been a dull old day, I did manage to get out and have a bonfire around ten, dug up a few large weeds in the grass immediately down the steps from the terrace and planted up a plastic bowl with Zinnia seeds that I bought yesterday and that's sitting in the little house.  I came back inside and set the fire for tonight.  It's so much better just to set it alight when I feel like lighting it which I did around five thirty tonight.  I'd also taken what I thought was minced meat, spaghetti bolognaise type concoction from the freezer last night and that went into the slow cooker so food was cooking without any intervention.

So it looks like we're in for a few days of rain, I didn't get into Kardjali and do the things I'd wanted to do but there's no real rush to do anything.  I put time restrains on myself and there's really no need.  The house looks presentable from the road since I used the strimmer since all else failed on the front of the house where the cows don't eat the grass.  I don't think they like going down the slope into the shallow brook-run especially when the grass is wet.  Pasta went into the saucepan to go with the slow cooker contents and I found that it was pork, not minced meat. I really should label the left overs.  More logs on the fire, it's down to five degrees outside and the clouds are very low and no sign of the mountains.  It's time that I got the other side of the curtain and closed it to stop the heat from the fire going up the stairs. LN....Early to bed tonight and maybe Kardjali tomorrow if I feel up to it......LN

Just for those that are waiting for May to get started.....the button to create a new thread has been removed from the functions and I'm waiting for the developer to come back to me.  Hopefully normal service will be resumed as soon as possible....

EP