by Auntie Bulgaria | Dec 12, 2012 | Bulgarian life, Cat lover
One of our cats, Moona (the mother cat), has been missing since the end of August. We choose to believe she’s gone to live elsewhere in the village rather than departed for cat heaven. To be honest, the kittens have grown up to be quite a handful, so I don’t really...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Nov 13, 2012 | Bulgarian life
The lovely young Dimana has been giving us Bulgarian lessons for about a year now. That sounds a long time doesn’t it? Surely we must be fluent by now?! Erm, well, no. In the beginning it was rather sporadic and we pretty much cried off lessons all winter. (What? Snow...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Aug 7, 2012 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
A little while ago I wrote a post comparing our (first ever) veg patch with our (very experienced 64-year-old) neighbour’s veg patch. Needless to say, the comparison wasn’t kind. Svilen’s veg patch is glorious – regimentally organised rows bursting with huge...
by Auntie Bulgaria | Jun 7, 2012 | Bulgarian life
My car MOT was due this month, the first one since we moved to Bulgaria. I was a little apprehensive as, although Uma the Puma has only done 7,000 miles in the last year, they’ve been tough miles. The roads here aren’t too kind to cars. Especially silly, wet,...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 21, 2012 | Bulgarian life
Rush hour in the village! We’ve been planning to replace our ropey old concrete path with a stone one. Imagine our delight when Rob started pulling up the concrete this week and discovered an old stone path already there underneath. It was quite uneven and...
by Auntie Bulgaria | May 14, 2012 | Bulgarian life, Food & recipes, Gardening bore
On a break from gardening… Our neighbour’s garden is entirely devoted either to raising animals or growing food. Every inch is maximised and, in a garden the same size as ours, he has sheep, a donkey, chickens, turkeys, and enough vegetables to feed two...
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