by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 7, 2020 | Bulgarian life
White trees on a snowy walk. Happy New Year to you, dear reader. And welcome to Auntie Bulgaria 2020, which will no doubt be pretty much the same as Auntie Bulgaria 2019. Cats. Snow. Wonky stuff in the garden. The usual. So how was it for you, the whole...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 16, 2019 | Bulgarian life
Thank God for martinis. It’s not been terribly Christmassy in the Auntie Bulgaria household this December. We both picked up a horrible bug that knocked us sideways for the first 10 days of December. I mean, this bug had everything: aches, shivers, sore throat,...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 19, 2019 | Bulgarian life
If you were wondering why I’d been a bit quiet lately, it’s because I was visiting in the UK, and then going through the customary readjustment to Bulgarian life. It’s like jet lag (life lag?), where the culture shock takes a while to wear off. Our house seems too...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 26, 2019 | Bulgarian life
This month I’ve stood in a 90-minute queue for something, had two separate hospital visits (nothing serious) that both involved lengthy waits, and endured a three-hour flight delay. Every time I was waiting, I kept expecting to get restless or annoyed or...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Oct 4, 2019 | Bulgarian life, Cat lover, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
You know what’s the surest sign that winter is on the way? It’s not the arrival of this year’s wood order, which finally turned up about a week ago… The annual Rob-in-front-of-the-wood-delivery picture. Nor is it harvesting the tempting butternut squash, which...
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