Bulgaria with Noodles

Dear Macolm,                                                It is always interesting to get an email from you, old fellow.    A friend of mine is still teaching, so I am wondering whether he did actually go on strike and stand there on a picket line with a sign, demanding more money? No, probably not.  No, there were no tremors or earthquakes here in Bulgaria, although I believe that some nearby other countries did have some. The situation in eastern Turkey and Syria really is very, very bad.   The war in Ukraine also continues on its bloody course. The UK Ministry of Defence has more or less agreed with the Ukrainian authorities' estimates that more than 800 Russian soldiers are being killed every day. At the moment, it looks unlikely that the West will give the Ukrainians the fighter jets that they are asking for, but then again it was not so long ago that it seemed impossible that western countries would supply the Ukraine with any tanks. That red line has now been crossed, so w