heatwave not in Rochdale

Hi dear M&B from Rochdale, hostages to fortune somewhere near Barcs - we cannot e-mail you as the comment does not give your address. Look up our website (www.ecohun.com) for our e-mail address, or just come and see us!

As for the horrid bug, it it a mole cricket, but all related information refers to ones upsetting golf courses, and lawns, not rugged potato patches... they advise us to catch them young - it is a tad too late for that. If indeed they are the culprits.

It is incredibly hot, it has been upto 38C, but "only" 35C today... the last village community volunteer building(!!) works happened on one of these potboiling days last saturday; getting ready the yard and fields at the culture house for our Kiskassa Festival of Light in August (12th, 13th and 14th)
Alan was down there at 7:40 in the morning, managing keeping up with the hard physical labour till mid-afternoon. There were big concreting jobs - nobody thought of getting a concrete mixer. We had to lend ours - nobody was aware we had one, so all work would have been halted without us...
Well, good to feel important as my work in the kitchen and round the culture house was a bit leisurely as to compared to the rest, though doing anything was an effort in the heat.
Mancika supervised with the help of a few more from the pensioners a very tasty bab-gulyas, with Anita's chocolate kalács for afters. Vine and beer were available to the thirsty and, hmmm, very health and safety conscious workers... I still don't quite understand how Armin managed not to fall into that well...

So how come all village life is continuing as per usual? Well, yes, the mayor is staying on, there was a big collection of signatures (more than 150!) asking him to, until he can.
The petition was presented at yesterday's official council meeting which was attended by about 50 villagers - our usual meetings unfortunately do not attract such crowds...
anyway, the mayor presented the situation and offered his resignation, but was persuaded to stay on... his appeal could take years and he might have better luck with it...

We received our wwoofer today, he is Harry from Taiwan, who won a scholarship from his university to immerse in some exotic foreign culture... his family would have preferred him sampling life in the USA, but he had insisted on bottling beetroot in Kiskassa (this was his first job here today on his first day), He has never seen a village before - or used a tool or any such non-city-stuff, anyway, we resolved that he'll go home strong and a bit less thin... tomorrow he is shifting hay with Alan in the heat - if he survives, he'll definitely be a fitter person...

I have been on The Bicycle! To my amazement I managed to do it, if a bit wobbly(ly?). I'll do more practice before I venture to the shop - or to Újpetre...

Pictures show the 2 little goats - Pici now reached the size the other one was at birth;
and some glimpses from the communal works