by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 29, 2013 | Bulgarian life, Travel & trips
I bloody love the beach, I do. I love the way the wind troubles my hair. (A too-short bob in summer is a bad choice, what I wouldn’t give for a ponytail!) The constant watering of my left eye. Those little pimples I get after days of sweating under factor 50 sun...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jul 27, 2013 | Food & recipes
I’ve been on a gluten-free bender for a couple of months now. Not, like, religiously or anything. If I go out to a pizza restaurant, I’m going to eat the pizza, not some lame salad. But, on the whole, I’ve cut down on wheat (mainly bread, pasta and beer). I feel like...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 4, 2013 | Gardening bore
Last year was our first summer growing veg; our first summer with a garden of our own. It’s brilliant when you eat your first home-grown courgette (not so much when eating your two-hundredth home-grown courgette). But, man, gardening is a lot of hard work. Weeds are...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 25, 2013 | Bulgarian life, House & renovations
Some things that have made me happy lately… Wardrobes. For 18 months I’ve been sharing one of those cheap clothes racks with Rob (you know, the things that very organised people take to car boot sales to hang their wares on). Some time ago we gave up putting...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 15, 2013 | House & renovations
In the lounge… Moving onto the kitchen and pantry… Elsewhere in the house… My office. Getting there on bricking in the staircase.
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