The Last Post?


Flipping Bulgarian postal service! They really are pretty blooming useless. My old friend Peter sent me a parcel from the UK, but it never arrived. Well, actually it did arrive - back in England. 

I ordered some DVDs and a book. I really need “Napoleon the Great” because I am going to be spending quite a lot of time on the beach on Samothraki, so I will definitely need something to read! Irena loves lying on the beach all day, but I have to say that it is pretty blooming boring. She is very keen to go to the seaside, as her bronchitis is quite bad and nothing seems to be shifting it.

Not much to report from Daveri. Irena’s friend Mila came for lunch today and this meant rather a lot of conversation in Russian, so I made a tactical retreat upstairs to my computer.

My blog is going well. I have managed to work out why many people were not able to access it. https://bulgariawithnoodles.blogspot.com is the way to get to my blog. It does not work if you send people www.

Yes, I really am thinking of going to the Lord Wandsworth College Class of ’77 reunion. That is going to be June next year. Fifty years! Yes, it is getting a bit scary.

What other news is there? I have to do some more repair work to one of our stone walls, as a big lump of stone has fallen out (yet again). The workmen who built the stone walls around the garden skimped on the cement, so every so often I have to patch things up.

On TV is on the blink, yet again. This time I think that it is the transmitter, as there does not seem to be anything wrong with the actual TV and we had a new little black box only last week. However, the BBC news is usually so unutterably dreadful these days that maybe it is better not to watch it. What an appalling mess the world is in! The new not-so-little black box was doing its job, but now we have no signal.


The good news is that the Ukrainians are continuing to destroy Russia’s oil production facilities. There was a YouTube video of a Russian woman crying because the Ukrainians had attacked yet another oil refinery and she was wailing and complaining because her children could not play on the beach. Well, **** her, that’s all I can say. You stupid cow, when are you going to realize that your wonderful Mr. Putin is leading your country on the path of death and destruction? How many women in Ukraine are crying for their dead fathers, brothers and children? The Russian army has suffered something like 1.5 million casualties (dead and wounded). As you can probably imagine, the Romanians were not too happy when a Russian drone landed on an apartment block in a Romanian city, so is the Russia / Ukraine war going to spread to the rest of Europe?

Before the start of the Second World War, lots of people thought that Hitler was a really good chap. He ordered the autobahns to be built, made the trains run on time and got Germany back to work. It was much the same with Putin. I used to think that he was a really good leader for Russia. He did a lot of good things for Russia and there were many improvements in the Crimea after he took over. (You may recall that I saw these good things for myself and wrote about them in my blog.)

But that has all changed with the attack on Ukraine. My mother-in-law is not a politician or anything like that, but she told Irena that the graveyard in Simferopol, Irena’s hometown, is filling up with new graves. And that’s all you really need to know about Putin.


If you enjoyed my last joke, then you might like this one.

President Reagan was having dinner with a family of Democrats. The little daughter said, “When I grow up, I want to be president of America!”

Reagan smiled and said, “Why do you want to do that?”

The little girl replied, “Then I could give homes to the homeless people and food to people who are hungry.”

Reagan replied, “Well, why wait until you are president? You could come round to my house, work in the garden and do some chores. Then I will give you some money and you could give it to a homeless person.”

The little girl then asked him, “Yes, but why doesn’t that homeless person get a job and earn money for himself?”

And Reagan replied, “Welcome to the Republican Party!”


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