I live with Baba now during the day. Galia is out to work early ’till late and I am writing with Baba Mama doing her busy woman about the house trick everyday. She is 84 and doesn’t stop going back and forth from chores in the kitchen to sweeping the yard, watering the garden, putting the washing out. She starts at 7:00 Photograph by Dido Mihajlov in the morning and doesn’t stop until bedtime. There is a rest at around 1:00 – 2:00 where she gets her head down for a little snooze but that’s where it ends. Even when she is sitting down her hands are busy sewing, knitting or repairing something. What Baba can’t understand is why I don’t slow down and eat and sleep every couple of hours. She doesn’t understand that a
Bulgarian man is very different to a Englishman. I always remember going back nearly tow years ago when she saw me vacuuming the front room…… she was in tears as she had never seen anything like it in her 80 odd years in Bulgaria.
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