The snow has finally gone and even though this is our 3rd spring here it is still a surprise how quickly the weather the changes, one minute there’s snow on the ground and a couple of weeks later your gardening in tee-shirts. It’s still a bit chilly early in the morning before the sun comes…
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Friends, helpers and more nuts
The last of this years volunteers, Mark and Melody, have now been and gone, they arrived at the perfect time and helped us get back on track. Along with other jobs Mark re-laid and widened the path in the chicken run that the pigs had destroyed and helped Joe get the windows fitted in the…
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Many hands
We’ve had quite a good response for our request for volunteers on Helpex. Our first volunteers, Richard and Danni, have arrived from England and are settling in very well. They arrived on 5th March, having spent a few days in Sofia. After a couple of days settling in, we have worked them hard ever since!…
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Cold weather stops play
Work on the bathroom has ground to a halt now that the weather has got too cold to plaster walls or put tiles up. Unfortunately we’ve taken the boiler out and can’t easily put it back, so we’ve got no shower, probably until spring. It’s not a problem though; a bath in the kitchen will…
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Things that go bump in the night
During the day our new house is delightful, even in the morning fog. But once the sun drops over the horizon, and darkness crawls up to the house, it can sometimes seem a bit creepy. During the day the garden is alive with birds, but the night-time is the domain of things that rustle alarmingly in…
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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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Unexpected visitors
We have always said we don’t want any animals until next year, so imagine our surprise when we ended up playing host to a volunteer, two goats, two horses and a dog! A friend we had met earlier in Bulgaria needed help with temporarily housing some animals she was looking after. It’s a long and complicated…
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