by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 4, 2018 | Gardening bore
Veg garden recovery The courgettes, rhubarb and beetroot are springing back to form after the heavy storms. It always amazes me that really delicate things like dill and asparagus ferns are totally unharmed by bad weather, while the big ole brutes look (temporarily)...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 28, 2018 | Bulgarian life
My ‘oh goody, ANOTHER power cut’ face. Just as VAR is fast becoming my favourite thing about football (the drama as the ref jogs off the pitch to look at that telly!), electricity is fast becoming my least favourite thing about Bulgaria. Today we had no...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 21, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
The garden is ramping up and feeding us regularly, despite last week’s epic storms. In fact, we’ve eaten (small) beetroot, (even smaller) courgettes and (lots of) tomatoes from the garden every day this week. Our early Latah tomatoes, and spoils from the first...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 14, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I say ‘the storm’, like there’s been just the one. But we’ve had storms almost every day for weeks and weeks. It’s normal for this time of year in the mountains – we have beautiful hot, sunny days followed by stormy evenings – and we never usually mind. One storm at...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 5, 2018 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but it’s June. Already. June of 2018. Yesterday it was 1998 and I was sitting my a-levels, driving a knackered orange Fiesta with a broken speedometer, and planning an award-winning career as a foreign correspondent (or stage...
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