by Auntie Bulgaria | May 9, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore, Travel & trips
Hello! Yes, we’re still here and haven’t been swallowed by a sinkhole (literally my worst fear). We had friends come to stay, then we went back to the UK for a week, then I had lots of work to catch up on. That sentence pretty much sums up what’s been happening over...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 20, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
Lordy, where is April going? We’ve both been working such long days, there hasn’t been much time to update the blog. But here’s a brief whizz through what’s been occurring of late. We made the usual dyed eggs and hot cross buns for Easter Sunday....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 6, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Travel & trips
It’s no secret how much I love Sofia. Every time I see one of those ‘Top 10 cheap European city breaks’ articles that the Guardian publishes every other week, I always scan through thinking this time, surely this time, they’ll include Sofia. But they never do....
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 23, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
You know what marks the official start of spring for us? Is it the first spring flowers? No. Is it the first sighting of a stork? Nope. Working outside in a t-shirt? Blossoms on the fruit trees? The Game of Thrones trailer being released? No. Non. Ne. For us, spring...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 16, 2017 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
This week’s news: I’ve still got a cold. My ears are so bunged up, I greet everything Rob says with a loud ‘What??’, which I’m sure he finds thoroughly charming, even after 10 days. I’m still coughing up interesting things, too. All comedy has been banned after this...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 8, 2017 | Bulgarian life
As usual when the seasons change suddenly, I’ve got a raging cold. I’m asthmatic and, as anyone with asthma knows, a little three-day cold usually means weeks of chesty/wheezy ballache afterwards (figurative ballache, that is, not literal). So, yeah, I’m in the...
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