into the swing of things

we have lettuce and sorrel - the first produce of the year besides those 4 cranberries... and we tasted the cider!! Lots of grimy sedements, even after filtering, but smells and tastes nice!! Alan says, a few more weeks wait, and we'll have cca 50liters of cider!
We have hostelguest Danny here from cider-country (Cornwall) and we got his positive opinion, too!

We got our new batch of factory rescue hens, they seem to be in better shape than the last lot and we haven't lost any so far.

Worse news: stork tragedy. The village is devastated, the female stork
managed somehow to execute herself on a high voltage wire on the way to Belvardgyula. The male consequently left the nest.
Also we noticed that the swallows were very few this year, and found an article in Nepszabadsag confirming, that so far very few returned to Hungary, probably due to draught in Africa, but appearently we might have yet another late-arriving wave.

It's Sunday afternoon, and Alan is, as now customary, in Ujpetre,
at the Dark Dog, with Pali, Danny and my taciturn student, Zoltan.
Have I mentioned, that I started to teach Tahar, the algerian guest-worker Hungarian, he seems quite good and eager.

Hostel-business picked up a bit again; the Polish people were nice, had some Hungarian hunters then Danny who's staying extra days, and I am here lonesome, expecting two oz girls at the moment. Hope for such steady trickle, and the September canal adventure will be paid for soon!

Oh, and Wednesday we did at last make it into the Aranykacsa in Pecs, and it was not that expensive, and the food and the service was well above expectation, excellent! Their menu was only 670HUF.