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after a few days of gentler temperatures we are back to the heat of over 30Cs. The crowd has gone; mei's birthday surprise was her friend's arrival for a brief visit from Italy. We also had a couple from the UK, Patrick turned into a wwoofer for a day helping Alan getting down a big load of straw with the little tractor in the heat. While Heather was nursing her sudden unset weird allergy - got better eventually. just these brits cannot take the climate...
We braved it after some reluctance and went to pecs yesterday. Alan was disappointed with the usual Wednesday communal folk dance in front of the theatre; it was Serbian, and Alan expected the Kusturica style stuff, but it was the very best of kolo, which is very much like the Croation stuff in fact, hope I haven't annoyed any readers by this revelation.

By chance we found out that there was an (ancient) greek satyr play "Cyclops" at the Barbakan, where Timi's son Kristof (17) helped with the pyrotechnics. It was well done.
Meanwhile cucumbers and paprikas are doing well, though venturing into the poly tunnel is a nightmare, it has been taken over by very aggressive mosquitoes.

Goats were behaving badly, as per usual, breaking down a gate to get to Alan's prize beans, which we were really looking forward to harvesting (and eating), never mind.

We are expecting enquiries from adventurous and winter-loving people for looking after our place next winter (cca 15th Nov to 15th Jan) while we hope to be in the US, a first time for us in that fascinating and slightly frightening place.