surprise communal meal

The day before yesterday - too busy to blog - we went down to the closing program of our little village art exhibition in the culture house; all of us - Maggie and Vic from Pusztakisfalu, Margaret and Reinhart from Pecsdevecser and us - bought pictures or in our case, the lovely ceramics (only 1680HUF!) to be collected. After the performance of the Kiskassa ethnic dance-group - good humoured but a bit tedious due to the slowish and repetitive polka-type music - based on local german ethnic traditions, but I'm being my usual picky self - anyway, there came the surprised feast! Gigantic pots of pörkölt and an other of potatoes were dished out of with a seemingly endless flow of both the red and white variety of the local grape-product.

Very nice altogether, Józsi sported his full blindingly white chef-gear with the meter long hat, sorry no picture, I did not take the camera unfortunately.

Yesterday was a welcome quiet day, with Alan sheparding his sister's lot back to Budapest.

I gave a paid(!) English lesson to a very personable Medve-cheese salesman, who has plans to try his luck in England in a few months time. I was given a box of túró-based lollypop made without sugar. I let Alan taste it first, he likes túrórudi after all.

Got up this morning @ 5:30 to let hens out - see what change this makes in the presently non-too-productive egg-laying. Hope not a lot.