24. A mixed bag.

What we been up to then. Well we've been our usual busy selves since my last post,  here in walnut cottage which is what Julie has decided to call our house as we have 3 walnut trees.
The weather (as a British immigrant) I feel I must mention the weather every now and again. Well we've had all sorts from +20 degrees to frost to thick snow and just dull cold rainy and miserable. Still its only February so what can we expect.

We took a trip to Ruse last week to sort a few things at the bank and had a nice lunch at happy bar grill which is a chain restaurant in BG I had a nice burger and Julie had some crispy pork dish but as most places in Bulgaria my chips weŕe only just warm, they don't seem to master getting everything ready at the same time. On our way back we called at Metro to do a big shop. We have never been before its a huge cash and carry and I can only describe it as like costco on crack, its feckin massive.

Costco on crack

Work has been progressing slowly on the garden and some things are beginning to look a bit better as if I'm making progress. Paths are looking tidied, jungles are slowly being reclaimed, my fire and woodchopping addictions have been in full swing and I've nearly gotten rid of all the shitty painted wood in my woodpile.

Slowly reclaiming the 

Tuesday's weather was a bit crappy for gardening so we took ourselves off to our local garden centre. We had heard about Morgan's plants but its in hotnitsa an hour and forty minutes drive. We set off nice and early to get there at 11am the time it said on the website it opened so we would beat the rush. We eventually found it to discover it was all locked up. Morgan's plants is a place set up by two english brothers im told. We knocked on the gate and one of the guys came out to say they don't open until the first week in march FFS.

Anyway as we had come so far he let us in for a look round but explained nothing was ready for sale yet although he did let us buy some roses so not an entirely wasted journey and he was very apologetic about not updating his website. It does look good though and we will definately be buying more from them although we may well get it delivered as it a right trek there. 

From here we decided to go for lunch in Veliko Tarnavo Bulgaria' s old capital. We have been before and its a lovely city with some nice cobbled streets and views.

VT

Cobbled steets

The main street in VT

There is a lot of graffiti art in VT

Julie the tourist dont ask about the hat

Me having a brew in our favourite bar. Just look at the size of Julie's wine glass

A friendly stray.

We had a good lunch a look around I like VT its nice and its nice to get a bit of city life but its too busy for me the traffic is busy and last time we stayed it kept me awake.

The next day we woke up to this

Bailey and Daisy enjoying playing in the snow

The snow lasted a day and is now gone.

Next winter we are hoping to use our barn as our living room but there is currently no heating in it. So we bought a new petchka the other day we plan to use the petchka from our living room as it is too big for our current living room so we bought a small one and have took out the one from our living room to eventually go in the barn.

Shiny new petchka 

Anyway theres our latest update
Take care
Mark and Julie