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chris and annie's blog: October 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Thursday, 6 October 2011. And so a single event has disrupted the traditional Bulgarian election procedures, where red faced well fed men and women in suits forsake their gated communities and descend on town squares amid fanfares, pop stars and balloons to meet their voters. A nineteen year old boy was killed in the Plovdiv village of Katunitsa. It was reported in headlines as Bulgarian youth murdered by gypsies. Tsar Kirio was arrested. Like any alleged gangland boss he suff...
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chris and annie's blog: Translation of Atanas Dalchev
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Chris and annie's blog. Thursday, 18 August 2011. Translation of Atanas Dalchev. The windows – shut tight and blackened,. And blackened and shut tight, the door,. And the door bears the fluttering message. The owner has gone to America.”. And I am the home’s only owner. Where nobody’s made his abode. And I’ve set out for nowhere. And from nowhere I’ve returned. I never take a step from my house. And the years are my only visitors,. But so often the gardens have yellowed,. Swings its brass sun pendulum.
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chris and annie's blog: Caravans roll!
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Chris and annie's blog. Thursday, 6 October 2011. And so a single event has disrupted the traditional Bulgarian election procedures, where red faced well fed men and women in suits forsake their gated communities and descend on town squares amid fanfares, pop stars and balloons to meet their voters. A nineteen year old boy was killed in the Plovdiv village of Katunitsa. It was reported in headlines as Bulgarian youth murdered by gypsies. Tsar Kirio was arrested. Like any alleged gangland boss he suff...
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chris and annie's blog: July 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Saturday, 16 July 2011. In Memoriam - David Morena Buxton 1925-2011. I am the son of loving parents – very much in love with each other and in love with their profession which was their world. If I think of Paradise I think of David and Monica working together in some amazing stage production. It was a privilege to be their son. My father loved the countryside and he showed complete disrespect for notices that said Private or Trespassers will be prosecuted. Barbed wire was no ...
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chris and annie's blog: March 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Saturday, 26 March 2011. Какво ме гледаш бе келеш. 8220;Oy what you staring at you wanker? 8221; (street cred translation). Reportedly the last question posed by the prestigious Burgas businessman, Georgi Tanev before he was stabbed to death by a pimp outside an “erotic dancing club” in the centre of Burgas. Generations of disaffected Burgas teenagers could lay flowers and renew the inscription in memory of tragic bragadaccio. Chris and annie buxton. Tuesday, 22 March 2011. It tak...
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chris and annie's blog: February 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Sunday, 20 February 2011. Romantic histories that thwart the EU Rationalist vision. So how are Bulgarians to take the news from Serbia, that around the enclave of Bosilegrad, where the majority population is Bulgarian, a celebration of the national hero Vasil Levski has been banned? Stamboliiski was hauled from his hiding place. The Rationalist who insisted on calling himself a South Slav rather than Bulgarian first had his ears cut off, then his hands – let’s not ...The roots of ...
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chris and annie's blog: Job swap 2
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Chris and annie's blog. Tuesday, 14 June 2011. David Cameron sat twiddling his thumbs. Through the window he could see the morning sun shine on the slopes of the nearby wooded mountain. Lawn sprinklers arced mini rainbows across the plush green lawn. Cameron was enjoying Colleague Borisov’s retreat. The stunning views of the depopulated countryside contrasted with the Spartan interior furnishings favoured by Bulgaria’s greatest living statesman. Colleague Borisov had been right about the cabinet too....
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chris and annie's blog: June 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Tuesday, 14 June 2011. I'd like Martin Karbovski to go to Lom - a Danube port town in the poorest area of Bulgaria and report on how successful the town has been in integrating its Bulgarian and Roma populations. While there he would enjoy the opportunity of talking to Lom's Roma ex-deputy mayor, who speaks flawless Bulgarian and English, to discover why with such few resources, he is heading up such a successful integration programme. Chris and annie buxton. Being Prime Minister ...
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chris and annie's blog: January 2011
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Chris and annie's blog. Friday, 14 January 2011. When Annie and I got married in Pomorie, after the wedding we made our way to lay flowers at the statue of this most romantic of poets. Yavarov was a Bulgarian stereotype - a freedom fighter, sufferer of two doomed love affairs - one woman dying of consumption, the other shooting herself, victim of persecution at the hands of his compatriots, like so many other Bulgarian poets, he committed suicide. I dreamt of you again tonight my darling. And I suffer si...
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