by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 9, 2021 | Bulgarian life
It’s hard to make friends later in life, isn’t it? I often wonder how people do it. So many of my longstanding friendships started in the workplace or stretch all the way back to my college and university days, so now that I work from home and am about as likely to...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Feb 26, 2021 | Bulgarian life
Seems a lot of people back home are grateful that there’s now a roadmap for bringing the UK out of lockdown. I’m not really one for strong ‘feelings’ (she says, in air quotes, like feelings are something marketers made up to sell ice cream), so I’ve always felt, you...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 28, 2021 | Bulgarian life
We’ve had a couple of lengthy power cuts in the last week. We seem to go through phases where we have no power cuts for months, then we’ll have days or even weeks of frequent disruption. Long-time readers will know my frustration with this. There are the...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 18, 2021 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes
The snow has finally returned to Bulgaria. Which is handy because I was getting really cheesed off with all that brownness. Brown trees. Brown muddy lanes. Brown garden. Brown paw prints all over the kitchen floor. Brown village river (it’s been raining a lot, which...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jan 7, 2021 | Bulgarian life, Secondhand & fashion
I just don’t want to write about COVID-19 and the misery of UK lockdown. For one thing, we’re only semi-locked down here in Bulgaria and life, at least in the village, continues pretty much as normal. So I can’t even begin to relate to the struggle back home, and I...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 4, 2020 | Bulgarian life, Secondhand & fashion
Yes, it’s no longer autumn. In fact, it’s very snowy and festive here in Bulgaria. But because I took a two-month break from blogging while the site was being redesigned (which actually only took the designer a matter of days. The rest was me fannying around), I...
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