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Bulgarian Slivatree - An Expatriate's Eye in Bulgaria

Just a quick update: As mentioned in my previous post, there is no time to relax right now and that means that blogging is taking a break for now. In fact I did have planned a day of digging over the factory farm land and planting beans today, but it is raining which is why I am now online and composing this post. Hope everyone is keeping well and a chance to bask a little in the warm spring sun that has finally arrived.
No Time To Relax Right Now In Bulgaria
Just a quick to say that I am off sick with a stitched up finger and busy trying to get well enough to start earning again. With the snow around again not much I can do on the land even if I was fit enough, so quite lucky to be incapacitated during unworkable weather. All the family are fine and the celebrations are non stop here at the moment in March what with Martinitsa, Baba Marta Den and my Name Day (1st), Bulgarian Independence Day (3rd), Ladies Day yesterday (8th) A Birthday today (9th) all require parties and small tokens of gifts of course.
Kukeri To Come In Yambol
It was a relieved man who turned up for work and found that he still had work, albeit in a reduced capacity. Bulgaria leads the way in Europe in the recession for cutting back hours and pay and this is true to form in this case. So, I have opted for reduced pay rather than reduced hours and now have to tighten the belt even further - rather that than have no work at all.
Winter In Bulgaria - The Problems
Probably unemployment aside, we have had some serious weather here, but things just plough on as normal. It takes longer to do things and some things you can?t do with extreme cold weather and almost a metre of snow that remains part of the long-term feature of the landscape in Yambol now.
Unemployed In Bulgaria - More Than Likely
Having just got back to work after being laid off with a bad back, it was seemingly back to normal albeit in freezing temperatures and a frozen up Lada that wouldn?t move. Taxi fares took up a third of my daily wage without my own transport and buses that just didn?
Winter Comes To Bulgaria At Last
Well winter has come with vengeance in Bulgaria as I look out of my Yambol window and see half a metre of snow surrounding us and the finely balanced wedges of white fluffy stuff settled on the bare vine trellis that gave us the wine and rakia this year. I it has been a very warm and unreal over the last few months and it was a worry that the normal extreme cold spell would not kill off all the pests for the crops later this year. Even the bears had come out of hibernation due to this winter heat wave.

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As part of my recipe for S'more's I needed to make Graham crackers, which besides snacking, pie crusts and S'mores have no other culinary purpose. I had attempted to make them once before using a recipe from 101 Cookbooks, which could have turned out better, so this time I opted for an Alton Brown recipe. He is one of my favorite TV food personalities, because I love his use of science to

Bulgarian Slivatree - An Expatriate's Eye in Bulgaria

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