A Debt Free Life
pleasantplacesbulgaria My first marriage was a total disaster in terms of debt. We had only been married one month when my ex-husband went out and procured a credit card in order…
Slow living
Damson Gin – Quick easy recipe
This post explains how to make damson gin – a quick easy recipe. Summertime is the season of abundance! The garden is bursting with fruit and vegetables of all kinds.…
Cottagecore -Live Your Dreams
Introduction This post begins with a brief description of Cottagecore . It then looks more critically at the movement, and how it differs from a typical self sufficient lifestyle. The…
Living the Good Life
Setting the Scene Anyone old enough to remember the popular sitcom ‘The Good Life’ will understand the fascination engendered by the exploits of the middle class couple who turn their…
Summertime and the Living is Easy
Summer time and the livin is easy, Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high (Ella Fitzgerald) A slow morning in summer It is thirty two degrees, and it’s only…
Reflections on a Pastoral Scene
Standing in my garden on this late autumn evening I hear the familiar sound of the shepherds bringing their herds back from pasture. This is a sound that never ceases…
Autumn in Bulgaria
Autumn in Bulgaria is like an English summer Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; (....) providing still more, later flowers for the bees, Until…
Shopping in Bulgaria
Shopping in England was a chore, I much prefer shopping in Bulgaria! This is one very memorable shopping trip. One of the Roma families who have befriended us here keep…
How to Make Cider
Well, since moving to Bulgaria, this is the third year that we have made cider from our own apples! I can say with certainty that this is the best cider…
The Bulgarian Weather – How Much Sun?
The only content that appeared when I began my research on Pevtsite was the weather forecast . What most English people want to know is “how much sun do you…