The 5th of August was our 1 year anniversary since we bought the house. It’s strange, in one way it doesn’t seem that long ago but in another it seems like we have been here for a lot longer. The house is finally starting to feel like home. I would say for the first 6…
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Day-to-day diary entries
July update
The last month has been a bit of a strange month. We’ve been having a break from hosting volunteers; it’s hard work having volunteers! There’s the extra cooking (you can’t just have toast for dinner when you con’t be bothered to cook!), and then you have to find work for people to do which isn’t…
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Hot composting and humanure
Having done a survey of the soil in our garden, one of my main aims has been to increase the biological and fungal activity in the soil. For this we will need loads, and loads of compost! Hot composting After some research, I decided that the quickest way of doing this would be to make…
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Staying in a Bulgarian hospital
Recently I was admitted to the local hospital as an emergency patient. I don’t want to go into the reasons but thought my experience might be of interest to some of you. Popovo is a small town so it doesn’t have a major hospital so we weren’t even sure if it had and A&E, but…
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Our first home-grown meal!
We reached a milestone today, with our first meal totally made using ingredients we have grown on our land! Descriptions on the pictures.
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May update
One day there will be a day without fruit to prepare or pick, but today is not that day. May started off quietly enough with a bit of tree maintenance, mulching and adding compost to the trees, and building our reed bed with our helpers Christie and Jessie, but now it’s just descended into fruit…
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Reed-bed grey water recycling
Last month we discovered that our soakaway was broken, so decided to construct a reed-bed system to handle the grey water from our kitchen and outside sink. The idea is that eventually, the cleaned water from this will feed a pond, somewhere else in the garden. Preparation First, we got a Bulgarian trench-digger to dig…
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Kitchen, garden, and what else has been happening in April
The garden has taken priority in April but we’ve still managed to get some work done on the kitchen. The plasterboard has had it’s first coat of plaster, and the chimney and walls have had a second coat of cob put on them. The slats in the loft space have mainly been insulated, plaster-boarded and…
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