We have had our first visitors from the UK this month. My Mum, Jenny, and my step-dad Alan came to see us. We’re not really ready for visitors to stay, so we booked them into a little hotel in Popovo for their three day stay. We were both quite nervous about our first guests; how would they…
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A trip to Shumen
We took some Bulgarian friends to Shumen today, so we had the opportunity to visit the ‘Monument to 1300 years of Bulgaria’, which sits above the city on the Shumen Plateau. You can see the monument from miles away as you approach the city, and it dominates the landscape, like so much public art from the…
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October update
We’ve just realised it’s been ages since we posted anything, so this is a broad update on what we’ve been up to! We’re now officially resident in Bulgaria; we got our residency ID cards, and the car is now registered on Bulgarian plates. We were so pleased to have the help of Yonko, our advocate,…
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Laying the floor
We had originally been going to tile the floor in the bathroom, but after seeing a stone floor in a friend’s house, we thought we could do that. First, we had to make the floor level, which took a load of concrete and a lot of graft. Then we had to select and fix the…
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Excellent! Aged just 9 weeks, Fog has caught his first mouse. He’s currently enjoying playing with it in the garden.
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Surplus apples
One of the problems we’ve found has been dealing with the huge amount of fruit that ripens all at the same time. We’ve got so many apples, it’s been hard knowing what to do with them all. We’ve got loads peeled and frozen, ready for pies and crumbles in the winter, some that are in…
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The killing machine
Welcome to the newest member of the family, Fog. We got him on Saturday from some friends nearby, and he seems to be settling in well. He’s a very affectionate cat (a bit too affectionate at times!), but seems to have the killer instinct. I gave him a mouse that I’d caught in the mouse…
Read moreRepairing the roof
One of our most important tasks before winter comes is making sure the roof is water-tight. We’ve had a builder friend inspect it and he says the only thing that really needs doing is re-bedding the ridge tiles. Neither me or Julie are happy working up on the roof, so we’ve employed a builder to…
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