by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 23, 2015 | Gardening bore
‘Let’s build a greenhouse for the tomatoes,’ we said. ‘Just a small one,’ we said. You might wonder why, when we live in the land of hot summers, we felt such an urge. Well, reader, last year we had a pretty wet summer (warm, but wet and stormy) so Rob hastily erected...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 18, 2015 | Bulgarian life
My anxiety has been a little woo-hoo lately. (When you read ‘woo-hoo’ imagine me doing bug eyes and waving my fingers in the air). It goes like that sometimes. In Bulgaria you really just have to go with the flow, which is not only a dickish phrase but also a...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 20, 2015 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
Sveta Nedelya Church, Sofia Moving to a Bulgarian village is like moving to the 1950s. In our village, they could easily film one of those TV programmes where people live like Victorian farmers or Tudor doctors or something: everyone knows everyone, chickens...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 4, 2015 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
As it’s been so long since I last wrote, I shall attempt to summarise the last six months in 200 words. Ready? August 2014: Catastrophic rain and floods in Bulgaria. We go to the beach for five days. It rains. I get the shits. It rains some more. We come home....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 25, 2014 | Gardening bore
This one goes out to Mike, who will soon be back in the gardening groove. Have fun, sir. You might remember last year we overhauled the veg garden: creating raised beds, laying a stone path and adding a rustic stick fence. We were pretty pleased with it at the time...
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