Joined at the hip

Joined at the hip

  You can prepare for moving abroad in lots of practical ways. Brush up on the language. Plan a new business or some other way of earning money. Give all your crap to the charity shop… One thing we weren’t prepared for – and it sounds really dumb to say...
Coming home

Coming home

I’ve always been happy calling anywhere ‘home’. Bulgaria is ‘home’. England is ‘home’. Anytime I stay in a hotel or Airbnb for more than a night, I start calling it ‘home’. So, yes, I’m home (in Bulgaria) after my long trip back home (in England). The cat gang missed...
Postcard from the motherland

Postcard from the motherland

Greetings from the UK, where, surprisingly, the sun has been shining aplenty and nobody (that I’ve seen) is having angry debates about Brexit on public transport. Weird. I’m here for most of April on a long catchup with family and friends, so there’s not much to...
KAT, cats and glads

KAT, cats and glads

Like a lot of Brits here facing the prospect of no-deal Brexit tomfuckery, I had to drag my arse to the KAT office in Sofia last week to do battle with Bulgarian bureaucracy. But, on the plus side, it was all over within 30 minutes (my personal best for a KAT visit)....
Spring in pictures

Spring in pictures

Not much to report at the moment as life is consumed (consumed!) by Brexit anxiety. (Joking. Sort of.) At least there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful out in the sunshine, including… 1. Big birds are back The storks have returned and taken up residence on...
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