Letters from the beginning !!!! Part 2

Here is the second rambling installment from my entry into Bulgarian Life....please enjoy ...:

Well guys ,

We are fairly settled into the chaos which is our life on a building site. So lets have a look at Bulgarian building traditions and work practices.

The group of men working on the house seem to share one set of lungs and as one is working the others rest through lack of oxygen.
They're scaffolding is a work of art, the basic foundations are as you would expect , metal supports with the standard planks to stand on. As soon as they need to do any high work they then attach a variety of chairs and ladders as support, it takes building to a new extreme level.

The outside of the house has recently been painted in the classic style , which is a light textured affair.
To achieve this they use metal tins full of bristles attached to a rotary device. Fill it with paint , turn the handle and hey presto ,paint on the walls ,windows ,next door neighbour and the stray dog which is trying to get into my caravan and steal my biscuits.

Yesterday we were able to use the lounge for the first time , it is a vacuous room with great acoustics, we set up the Sony Stack System , The DVD Player , The satellite and the 14" T.V, yes that's right 14" , it was great , surround sound afforded by the Sony hifi and a stinking headache trying to squint at the minuscule screen in the corner of the room trying to watch The Last King of Scotland.
The film by the way is great, in an upshot its about a silly Scottish lad who decides the best way to spend his first year out of university is to shadow a vicious dictator in Uganda for a laugh. Boy, what a shock he got , the stupidest part is that even though he realised that this leader was a maniac, who enjoyed putting people to death more than golf , this young Scottish lad sleeps with one of his wives , shock, horror, when his life takes a turn for the worse.

Anyway folks, Must bring this to a close as we, my dad and i are going to build a shed. This should be a laugh, I have ridiculed the Bulgarian Building practices , now they will get the opportunity to see how the Brits do it....... Shout at each other for 3 hours , break something and then let them use their ridiculous practices to get it right.