flipping june

and very fast, was too busy, honest... Alan is off to England tomorrow, well, flying on Friday, returning here on the 24th, so exciting times, coping without him... Woofers are staying only for another 2 days, so after that it's up to me to defend the place from those wolves, weeds, aggressive pumpkin-plants etc... while Zoltan's exam is looming on the 19th, and I seem to be more worried about it than he is... We have loads of storms - first of them took the nice new blue awning straight off, luckily the house stayed minus a few tiles, which was replaced by Alan masterfully, and later properly by the nice and skilful people of the insurance, who were nice enough to fix a few that were missing from difficult places for some time.

We had a few short notice guests to liven up the place, and the Belgian mobile wwoofers Ries and Elsia are doing a good job all over. We have a totally unexpected villarental booking of a Finnish family for a week from the 26th, so plenty of time in theory to get neat... so stop panicking!

Managed to pick mange tout (sp?) in time, things are growing beautifully, had the first courgettes today - about the first in the village! Alan put some sweet corn and pumpkins in the poly-tunnel, they are giant. No wonder Alan is a tad anxious leaving in such a gorgeous time... hm, but it will stay that way!