Our Russian Friends.

I have missed a few days again,but with the lovely sunshine,and neighbours arriving for summer its been rather hectic to say the least.And when our Russian friends arrive,well! it really hots up.They remind me of a whirlwind................all excited and happy to be back in their Bulgarian Home.Slav,Vicki,and granddaughter Sasha arrive first and in a week or 2 Sasha's mum and dad.Its all go to get the house clean and the garden ship shape.Next week they will be off to the sea every day and this year we are going too.In the last 2 summers we have worked on the house but not this one ,no the seaside calls and we intend to answer!!

When Vicki arrives its a bit like having a sister here we get on really great and spend a lot of time chatting which is interesting because she speaks little English and I very little Russian,thank-goodness for hand signals. There all really great!!!!!!!!!

What a week and its only Thursday!!!

Where to start,David did some more maintenance work for Christer and friends Tarnava's new Swedish residents,you can see him on the roof (again)hum seems to like roofs lately.Yesterday we went for some tiles for our roofing job,........................Why does it happen to USE van full with tiles, wood, shopping, makes a strange noise and kaput broken again the steering hydraulic system failed fluid pores out as soon as it was put in Bugger Bugger Bugger and worse!!!!managed to get to Ivan's garage,left the thing and went for our friend the sand man who had us sorted in less than an hour every thing in his lorry us in the front,called to feed his dog's (pretty rare here)and away to Tarnava!!!cost 40 lv some people are so good!!!

Lucky England!

You seem to be having really good weather there,where as here it seems a little slow to come,oh its warmish but cloudy and rainy, its making the garden grow,we have hollyhocks at least 4ft tall and still going!!!!(English of course)Not very good weather for our Swedish friends who are here for a week or two hope it picks up a bit.On a light note the shade area at the back had some rather strange visitors.

Bee',Bee's Bee's!!

If you don't know what a swarm of angry bee's looks like let me show you.These bee's were in our neighbor's garden and boy there were thousands,the noise from them was unbelievable!!you have to keep an eye on them because when they set off if you are in there way they chase and its pretty dangerous so if they start to move we get the dogs and go indoors. 

Yambol Dog Shelter.

This afternoon we went to meet Christina the girl who volunteers at the well hidden Yambol dog shelter.What a going on the place is on the Rosa road in some old industrial building and before we even reached it we had to get a slip allowing us through the main gate,then following the bloke who takes care of the shelter for the company who own it we weaved round broken down building and arrived at a dilapidated block.The guy was pleasant enough and quite open about everything,it was a very run down building made up of pens in poor condition with a pallet on the floor for the dogs to sleep on,pretty basic I'm afraid but he did seem to be trying.To change opinions about dogs is a very slow process here and the Yambol major is one of the first to make killing a dog illegal unless it is suffering.We don't think it worth while working with this company in any financial way maybe as volunteers for the dogs sake to get them out for a walk,they have no fenced area to exercise and are permanently in the pens.Christina is going to find out how to set a charity up here so that you  can donate knowing your hard earned pennies are going to the cause!!!no pressure then.Anyone interested in giving a few hours please don't hesitate get in touch with me NOW!If you are in the Yambol area and want a puppy or adult dog the shelter has some lovely animals all neuted and vaccinated ready for you.

Today the sky's have had a busy day army helicopters have been on maneuvers and been disturbing the peace all day,hum will have to have a word with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Its a dreary day,Viloo is catching up with the Russians garden because they are due on 28Th May,he has his combat gear on cos Luba's bee's are vicious at this time of the year.Since we put the pool up its been cold that typical!!!!!!!!Technical man David has created this light.

Our art for sale

Our art is now for sale,you can purchase via Paypal glorious gourd's £12, hand made wind charms£5+£6p+p If you live or are visiting Bulgaria call in say hello and leave with a hand made piece of art.We also make garden benches only for sale in Bulgaria £40 so go on spoil yourself.

Pick a picture from our blogs or email us your own and we will print it ; £10 adults. £8 kiddies.
Plus £6 p=p.For every gourd sold I will donate £2.00 to the cause(Help Bulgarian animals) 

Please contact us through this blog any time .

Its pool time again!!!

Eat your heart out England its pool time again!!the temp is high,let the fun begin.Unfortunately it is also snake time again not that we get bothered by them, well not until this year we have spotted 2 in the water feature David made last year.We will have to keep nosey Jazz away because the first year we were here he got bitten and was really ill,apart from that its just a case of being careful,"there more scared of us than we are of them" so people say,personally I don't agree!!!!If you look at the pictures you can just make out the snake,oh and our win exercising!

Gardening.

The weather here is lovely hot and sunny,but with no rain for quite a while dragging out the pipes to water the garden is a time consuming task we have to do every 2 days.We have now got strawberries,cucumbers, pea's, sweetcorn, potatoes,carrots,tomatoes,lettuce,radish,peppers and of course gourd's growing in the veg plot and rather large hollyhocks in the flower garden donated by Emma our youngest daughter.yesterday we did our first gardening job clearing a garden quite a task but it keeps us fit!!!!Check out the baby peach tree.