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Who would have thought that we were thinking about putting on socks a week ago?
We are well into the 30sC with upto 34 today. Yet our lovely, cheerful, in fact rather giggly and industrious wwoofers, Marta from Barcelona and Domentx from Basque country,
are soldiering on; the garden looks tidy, the front loan manicured... they are going to be the first dwellers in the stables, as we shall have a bit of a wwoofer overlap, with
Gorgie and Oliver from New Zealand arriving tomorrow. And various oz and US hostelguests to liven things up. Like last búcsu Sunday, when we had a lot to do and a lot of guests, if some of them just arriving, performing and moving on... It all went very well,I have never seen the culture programme so well attended. Vic was great, as usual; the belly-dancers were suprisingly good, they changed the music from the rather rythmless tribal that made me lose interest into something much more exciting.
The meal at Nora"s place was excellent, prepared with care by Józsi, a lean roll of pork-steak stuffed with ham, cheese and mushroom sauce, served with rizi-bizi and cabbage salad. Yummy. The youngsters with stamina gone off to a private party aat night, but we with Alan were spent and not even gone for the usual short appearance at the dance this time. Which had a live band, but alas not better than usual, we were told.
Yesterday we had a tortilla competition, both were made from the same ingredients, but different and both very nice, and a special done with aubragines - I learnt yet again a very good and easily prepared dish. It was so much nicer than the ones we tasted in Spain, which were much too dry and tasteless. Now we know - to be consumed fresh and hot! And made from fresh organic, home-grown ingredients...
loads more seem to have happened, with all the comings and goings here but this is all that could be
recalled by my limited mental powers... oh, yes, we were given a beautiful if a bit aged rooster, to pass his remaining years without all that dreadful competition from the young... he is as noisy as any, I hope he'll tone it down a bit once he realised that the place is safe; though the oz guest girls said they slept well, couldn't hear any of it. Also shown is our only successful raspberry plant so far.