bovril

I like it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cannibal-restaurant-with-roasted-human-heads-on-the-menu-shut-down-by-police-9123693.html They had some cheek....

Brilliant.

Toast toast and more toast, lots of water and a couple of paracetamol. Lucozade is also a good shout.

How do you get Pikachu on a bus? Poke 'im on.

Stinking cold, but just found out City are live on Bulgarian TV so have managed to wangle some McVities and Yorkshire tea from my local dealer. Street value of at least £4.50. Happy days! Good luck and enjoy the day!

brilliant!

Snowing buckets in Sofia. Looks like Nigella Lawson's hand luggage has split.

The Panasonic Lumix range are good, almost exactly the same model as the Leica D-Lux but way cheaper.

Rugby Union - the twat that invented the game.

No but I've had toad in the hole while... oh never mind.

Well it is a Saturday night.

Good day so far. Made a full English after being inspired by the Year of the Fox post a couple of days ago! Just off for a little stroll in the park then pub lunch and City vs Leeds. Bring it on....

I heard the perpetrators split.

Me too. I can't eat loads first thing in the morning. I sometimes just have a coffee and a cigarette and then a massive lunch later.

Break a leg! (Not literally, I believe that constitutes a fail these days)

Shame there's no snow! It's like spring in Sofia at the moment. Hope it hasn't pissed on your chips too much.

WTF? Ahhhh a more innocent age where footballers could buy young girls ice lollies without being called "paedo scum" by 20,000 people on twitter.

Yes! Nice walk from King's Lynn along the Fen river way.

And it'll be a great weekend.

Great news! Guess that means Messi's on his way to City.

Food and drink is very cheap. About 20 leva each for a very big evening meal, just under ten quid. Large beers about 3 leva. You want to get on the 'rakija' though, cheap and will get you pissed quick, most bars should have a bottle of homemade stuff stashed away. The price of ski passes have gone up in recent years, I think it's about 55 leva a day now. I have literally never been to another ski resort so I have no idea how that compares!

It's because they don't realise it's January. Calendars are still strictly forbidden in Bulgaria, anybody caught producing them is summarily executed on charges of witchcraft. Once they realise the sun has moved position they'll be swimming the channel for sure. As for the Roma, they use their baby-stealing voodoo to turn invisible. Check your pockets after using those cash machines, an invisible Romanian Gyppo may have stolen your wallet. It's not. I took the coach from Sofia to London once as I'm shit scared of flying. Although not so scared as to go through that 40 hours of hell again.

Borovets is quite nice. I go every winter with the missus (she skis, I have no intention of trying!). I'll look out for a guy in a city top with a scouse accent!

I don't think I can top these bottle jokes.