by Auntie Bulgaria | Apr 18, 2016 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I don’t want to be one of those awful English people who move abroad and complain about the heat, but (she says, limbering up to complain about the heat) … it’s 30°C here today. Thirty degrees! In Bulgaria, spring often starts like the flicking of a switch and it’s...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Mar 12, 2016 | Bulgarian life, Gardening bore
I’ve been trying hard to blog more frequently in 2016. Like many resolutions, I did really well in January then fell off a cliff in February. Not updating the blog for five weeks is the writerly equivalent of sacking off the gym and eating a whole bag of doughnuts...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 23, 2015 | Bulgarian life
Usually around this time of year I start reading one of Rob’s old books on Buddhism in a futile attempt to become more zen and live in the moment. This year I’m screwing that off in favour of looking backwards. Not in a gloomy way, you understand, but a reflective...
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....
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