Author: Julie

Since our last post (in May) we did get some rain in June but nowhere near enough to restock the IBCs or the water supply to the village. Last night it rained and we got all excited but it passed by far too quickly. The water situation in the village is pretty desperate. All our…

Life here for us has pretty much gone on as normal. Apart from having to wear a mask in any public indoor places and keeping your distance in shops things are getting back to normal. The government has opened up the cities again and we are free to travel, also bars and restaurants that have…

Well its September but there is no sign that autumn will be arriving any time soon. The thunderstorms finally stopped about the end of July and since then we’ve hardly had a drop of rain and with day time temperatures still reaching 30C it still feels very much like it is still the middle of…

Can’t believe it’s June all ready, where has the year gone. Well we are pleased to say the winter experiment with the peas, beans and lettuces has gone really well and we will definitely be doing it again this winter. We have just harvested the last of our winter beans and peas and normally our…

Not long after writing my last post I found myself boarding a plane heading back to the UK, 6 weeks later I managed to arrive back home in Bulgaria. I don’t plan on jetting off anywhere any-time soon, I have spent far too much time in airports in the last 6 months. So with being…

According to the calendar it’s been 3 months since I last posted anything but for me it’s been just over a month. I spent November and December in the UK so there was nothing for me to write about. I thought there wouldn’t have been much done when I got back, mainly because every time…

I keep meaning to write a blog post roughly every month, but yet again time has just flown by and I realise it now more than 2 months since my last post, so with the weather being a bit over cast and dull it’s an ideal time to get caught up on what we’ve been…