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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Update on the garden
We’ve had a busy week in the garden, the sun has been shining and we’ve all been topping up our tans. This doesn’t mean we’ve been laying around on sun loungers ( I wish) no we’ve all been hard at it getting our seedlings and seeds in. The benefits of having 2 gardens allows us…
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Next project – The Kitchen
My work in the bathroom is now complete apart from touching up around where the chimney goes through the roof but I can’t do that till the leak in the roof has been fixed.So while Joe finishes off the plumbing and the electrics I’ve decided to start on the kitchen. The first step was to…
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One of the reasons we chose to live in Bulgaria was the wildlife. We haven’t had much time to see much of it yet but I look forward to when we can go out and hopefully see some of the animals we have around us. We had otters where we lived in the UK and…
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A bit of repurposing
The weather took a turn for the worse at the end of November / beginning of December, too cold to carry on with the building work in the bathroom and too wet to do anything in the garden, but there was still work that could be completed ahead of when it was needed. One of these…
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Making sausages
I’d just starting to plaster the ceiling when Galia one of our neighbours came round with an offer I couldn’t refuse. Did I want to learn how to make sausages? So I downed tools and grabbed the phrase book, this was going to be a challenge. I usually rely on Joe to do the talking…
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Pensioners day out in Popovo
We got invited to the pensioners club meal, a bit strange as we are no where near pensionable age but what was there to lose. 7 of us piled into a car and arrived in Popovo for lunch and an afternoon of singing and dancing. There was wine supplied with the meal but pretty soon…
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Three weeks in
We’ve been in our new house for three weeks now, and in Palamartsa for five. We think we’ve done really well getting the house sorted out and liveable, especially with the hectic social life we’ve had since we moved into our new home! We’ve met most of our immediate neighbours, been to four evening meals,…
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