Ecofarmer

re-settled in Hungary from Rochdale, Lancs, England, and into a little village, doing a bit of greenish farming hoping for a quiet life... but stuff just happens...

Monday, December 31, 2007

a better 2008 for all!!



xmas food and company not in that order, were excellent;
it's still cold, white into miserable (aka winter)
we are due for the village communal do with meal, drinks and
jollity, unfortunately including the music which is pre-war kitch
technosized, I forcast early goodbyes from us, never mind.
Wish you all better music and as above!!

Monday, December 24, 2007

happy everything to everybody!


to even those who are not into reading the blog!
And it is snowing out there! Be warm and be happy!
xxAlan, Eva, Szonya, Charon, Marcixx

Monday, December 17, 2007

more to bring much needed sunshine






Martin's here and he bought more photos, and on one I don't look as awful as usual, so to popular demand more of hol pics, as much as can be fitted...
it's getting colder here, but never mind, we are off to smalz tomorrow, in the ice-cake theatre of Pecs we are going to see Lehar's Count of Luxemburg, our first operetta... you cannot dis something without experiencing it... Expect more pictures!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

just in case...

... I do not blog again till xmas, here is
a seasonal song for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaPXihbORk

Friday, December 14, 2007

winter proper




and little camera makes pics with internal memory, good little camera.
Max temps staying around zero, traffic chaos in Pecs, decided not to
go for xmas shops today. I'm surprised, usually they are so good in keeping
winter roads safe. pics show winter chucks - some decided to run out of the frame,
Bonzo also decided to withdraw shyly - so I went for landscape that luckily decided to stay steady. So as you can see, not that much snow really. Sharp wind.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

nothing special...

Same miserable wet and cold weather, making us feeling a bit down.
Also, the chap next door, whom we were not fond of, died, and we found ourselves quite upset about it, even though he already had about 5 heart attacks. We paid a visit
to the widow and made peace.
On Monday I got new mobile phones – they were on special offer, 7500HUF each (cca £20) and for that they do all that stuff, such as being radio and camera – it’s probably this cheap because it has no MP3 function… and it is metallic orange...
No instruction how to do things, I presume from today’s youngsters they just expect to work it all by instinct…
(and before anybody shouts at us for this blatant consumerism – both our old mobiles were broke).
The hens seem to enjoy the weather, laying more eggs, than all through the summer.
Maybe wet feed is more important than the length of daylight hours... all other species
are miserable... we are still not sure if and which goats are expecting...

Thursday, December 06, 2007

misc

First of all a late but very sincere and big thank you for Seth and Holly who suggested to Alan Hostelworld.com in July and then helped him to register.
May you bicycle to even more fascinating places, and do as much organic gardening as your hearts desire!!

That"s done, there is not a lot to report, we are tidying, Alan painted the small bathroom (blue) getting ready for some outer wall-warming solar thingie, I hope he will tell you more... I am enjoying Richard Dawkin"s The God Delusion, and the history of tractors in Ukrainian was also a good read.

No pictures - first the memory card in the olympus camera declared itself no-write, now the internal memory is doing the same, and the thing is not yet 2 years old, stupid modern technology - you get to like, even enjoy the thing, then it just goes pear shaped.
However, our internet seems to have speeded up, and there were no downs for the second day running.

The village xmas tree is decorated and lit, all 10+ meters of it, and Father Winter
aka Santa Clous, aka Mikulás duly arrived to Kiskassa today. Our revolutionary mayor
arranged free trip for the under-14 lot to see a performance of the famous Bobita puppet theater in Pecs, the 14 -16 ones are getting a free disco in the Culture house. They all get their prezzies, too, lucky things.

I opened the Telehouse as I promised to Szabi, but only twice a week, tuesday and friday, 4 - 6 pm, I was surprised by the numbers of people appearing considering I did not advetised the re-opening, though the rolled up blind and the light in the room could have been a giveaway. Eta néni chosen 6 very thick books, the rest were mainly teenagers more interesting to having a good chat with each other, than interneting, but that is alright. I was releaved that only one little one (under 10) turned up, and he was too busy to break cars in s pc-game to be of any trouble.

so life is quiet and pictureless, until further notice...
ps. Have you tried FreeRice? Look it up, they are giving away 20 grains now...