day 12

... started with a lot of people having breakfast... I finished first, then Helen, the wwoofer from the UK, then Christopher, hostelguests walker from the UK, then the group of 2 Polish one Irish guests, then the group of one English and 2 oz guests... I hope you are with me, here... and pleased to be informed, that there were enough kiflis, butter, jam, coffee, tea, fresh milk and honey for all... even cornflakes for a homesick ozzie... by about 10:30 the last six departed; there was a quick change of bedding and washing and drying - with the rain still chucking it down, it was nice to discover, that the dryer, indeed, is working. Before lunch a load of onions were pulled from the very muddy soil, gently cleaned up and laid out to dry on the covered part of the verandah. Just before 2 - as we started to have lunch - there came Henna, the Finnish girl on a very impressive and massive Yamaha motorbike - all the way from up there!! Wow! I'll put the picture on the blog when she'll be in full gear on it again. She booked extra day(s?), and at the moment is pleased being off the bike, as she was riding it all the way in the most dismal weather, alas, that is here, too, was raining most of the morning, stopped in mid afternoon and is 16C.
The vet came, Bonzo has a tic-induced illness that causes red bloodcells to die; he had an injection and should be somehow force-fed with milky things, should report to the vet on Wednesday about any progress. He is listless and wouldn't eat or drink, we'll have a session with Helen of this Bonzo feeding in a bit... I am not looking forward to it... as I was typing this, Helen appeared and looks as the injection just started to work: Bonzo licked the pot clean on his very own! Phew.
As you can see, Helen is a treasure. She enjoys cleaning things!!
Our kitchen is just - beautiful! She decided, that in this rainy weather she wanted to scrub our kitchen, bless'er (as she would say)... and she wants to go through thoroughly the private room - which is good, as we have a booking for there for to USians for two days from tomorrow... (run out of exclamation marks+)
One of the giant sunflowers fallen over, so I dragged it to the goats when it dried a bit - happy goats resulted. They were out yesterday, but in all day today.
Anna was in hospital her blood pressure shot up to 220 or something;
she's back home and the family managed to keep her in bed.
Wimbledon started. We only sleep twice now and I can be "her indoors" again... one dreams...