still busy

sorry about unusually patchy postings - we had hardly a day without new arrivals or departures, very exiting times. We were lucky, as we had a stand-in pair of wwoofers from Israel, who were permanent world-travellers. They did lots of good work, catching up with stuff Alan couldn't do because being frustratingly indoors with his allergy playing up so badly. We had a few waves of oz hostel-guests, some of whom also insisted on putting in some work - thanks for finding good sticks and tying up the tomatoes dear James). Managed to make yellow plum preserve, sorrel was found on the upper field and was processed, onions were chopped and preserved ready for Hungarian dishes.
We had the 8 English girl-guide leaders, the bogracs project worked quite well, we ended up eating it for days. We just had an e-mail, they won a handsome award (looks very similar to an Oscar) for visiting " an environmentally or recycling project" (?)
Now we have lovely wwoofers from New York, after just 2 days here they (nearly) managed milking the goats themselves.
We were taken to the Pecs Sunday market which was very big, I acquired another sámli.
We visited the organic wine-producers in Pecsdevecser, they are very professional indeed, enjoyed the wine-tasting, drinking wine with Suzanna's home-baked bread and with our goat cheese.
We are very worried as our mayor, Tamás is not standing again, and there is nobody else who could continue his good work. The only one standing so far is Kresz Erno, who is a nice chap, but too old for a job, and he tends to disapprove any improvements such as the tele-house, youth-club etc, he would be a disaster for the village.
I would have a go if I wasn't so completely unsuitable for the job, being disorganised and forgetful.
Oh yes, and we partook two free concerts in Pecs, Goran Bregovic one of the Kusturica film fame - it was very enjoyable, I managed to stand and dance about for the 2 hours it lasted, though didn't quite jumped about as much as Alan and Szonya - who was also here by the way, for nearly a week with Drew. We also managed to see the Buona Vista Social Club performance at the same venue in front of the 4 towered Cathedral - even more people packed together, there was no room for dancing!
And I haven't mentioned the nice meals we had in Pecs and at home - all in all, discounting the few cases of people arriving sick (all got better next day) things are going well, considering that we had at times 12/13 people for breakfast; we have lovely comments in the guest-book and the major part of the Florida trip has been earned. We had only two enquiries so far from the caretaker ad for housesitting, we'll see how it goes. If no takers, Timi and Feri will look after the place, but we would prefer if someone actually lived in the house.
there are tons more to report, alas, either forgotten or being just a bit tired...
Picture shows us with some of the girl guides.