Ever been in a Bulgarian court house? Now court in England I find very scary, makes my tummy revolt but here it seemed very cool, relaxed & not court at all. I wondered if it was because we didn't know what was being said but it seemed very slap dash & the judge seemed very disinterested! The only person who was dressed half way decent was the judge!
Right to the point, we went to court for the burglary by Emile. He wasn't there the only person who spoke a little English was the defence councilor who filled us in. He hadn't met Emile, thought he was already in prison (he isn't as he was in local bar last night!)& we were only there to say we had all our stuff back!!!! After we have both sworn & made statements & signed numerous bit of paper to that fact!!!!! Bulgarian bureaucracy is MAD!!!! He said he was there to make a bargain as Emile had confessed (bit hard not too when he has all my jewellery) if he hadn't confessed he would get 15 years (OMG) but he was now looking at 6 years as he had previous convictions. Mary who said she hadn't been asked to go was called for & of course wasn't there, the Mayor was (Don't know why) as were two other people I think for defence. It was now decided to go back on 12Th May (again don't know why) but we don't have to go! So after all the bloody time & effort we still know nothing & will only here now through word of mouth :(
The weather has continued to be beautiful so we have got the liner for the concrete base & the pool is being filled as I type, woop woop!!! It wont be warm enough to use now (unless you don't mind freezing water) but it will warm up with the cover on it & with temperatures of 27 & 28c will be ready very soon. CANT WAIT!!!!!!
We are going to put small stones all around the pool area it will look nicer & be less work as it is all weed now. It will remind me of Bognor Regis where I lived from 1987 to 2001 in fact my son Daniel still lives there with his partner katie.
this leads me nicely into I am going to be a Nanna again, A Baba!!!!! Dan & Katie are having a baby in November!!!!! I love being a Nanna & miss my two granddaughter's soooo much. I was at both their births & cut Hope's cord. I was very close to the girls & its heartbreaking not knowing when I will see them again, I love them dearly. Gutted I won't see baby when it's born as I don't know when I will get to UK again but I am hoping that Dan & Katie will come over with baby next year :D
This is the worst thing about being in Bulgaria, our children are all grown up with lives of their own but we are missing out on the babies, we have four grandchildren between us soon to be five & we are missing out on them big time! That is peoples lifestyles now, we are all scattered if not in different countries then different counties. The world is a very small place & we are all open to new opportunities that our parents would have loved.
I have just dug up more Parsnips :D I thought we had the last in January, but no I now have a washing up bowl full of the blighters, I'm not sure if they are edible I will have a proper look at them later, suppose I could make a sou pa with them ( I spelt it soupa but the spell check wanted it changed lol).
Nigel is upstairs renovating the hall I will go in & paint it all hopefully tomorrow if the plaster has dried on the wall, if not then my project for Monday, then all we need is some carpet & a light fitting. He starts another little job on Monday only two days work for a friend but it helps them & helps us too!
last night we entertained for the first time since October!!!! Now that is a long time here as normal Bulgarian village life See's us socialising at least once or twice a month but mostly three times a week! I think this winter we all just curled up & it was a bit traumatic for us too!
We have been to Yovo & Pavlinka's twice recently so I thought it was time to break out our Rakia & Vino alone with the Peppers & Gherkins I pickled way back when :D I made a Pig Sty Pie (cottage pie but with pork mince) for after the mezze & Creme Carmelle with peaches & lady's finger biscuits, mmmm that was very nice, funny what you can make from store cupboard ingredients LOL! All went down very well with lots of Hobovo & Mnogo Dobre's being banded around but the best thing is our Red Wine is bloody gorgeous!!!!! I would pay a lot of money for a bottle of wine that good how bloody fortunate are we!!!!! Woop, wish I knew what grapes they are though, I tried to find out from Yovo but he doesn't know, they are just Grosne (Grapes)to him. The Rakia as Rakia's go is very nice with voda (water) its very very nice so I am well pleased with our grape harvest this year!!!!!! I have had Rakia that literally tastes light paint stripper (too much meths) & I have had a Rakia (just one mind!) that was sooo smooth it was beautiful drunk neat. Now I'm not a drinker in fact I don't like alcohol but I can drink Rakia with voda I decided to do it originally to be polite as the Bulgarians will give you their last & their best food & drink, I felt I would be terribly rude to refuse it, & our red wine is luverly, I mean it, it really is a very nice wine :D
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