waiting for spring

Really fed up with the cold after those few nice warm days.

having lost 3 little goats (got 2 good ones left so far including giant and very tame Attila)
one doesn't feel like blogging... should have waited for the outcome of today's mayor elections, which probably brings the victory of evil Erika, over untalented but not (so) evil Csaba...
leave you a cliff hanger...

We had a posh meal in Pécs -our 39th anniversary dammit... as Alan says, quite a bit longer then a life sentence, and who am I to quarrel... We went to the Chinese restaurant, we haven't been there for a few years. It lost a bit of it's shine and elegance, and we were more or less the only ones there - mid-afternoon is not a usual dining time - but we had all the attention of the staff, which was nice. Meal was tasty and big, we took most of it home.

Our first outing for a very long time, though Alan of course had a big outing in England.
He had an adventurous return journey; I had a call from Prague... They landed there as a door was loose or something. They applied the relevant elastic bands and they were on their way in no time, he managed to get the train to Pécs that was pre-booked.

Weather insists on being chilly for weeks now, albeit with sparkling sunshine. At the time of the year when we are convinced nothing would grow. Well, all looks more dead than usual, lets hope those severe colds haven't done too much damage.
Especially worried about the figs of course. Just learned a newish cake recipe,
instead of apple bits, I used the green fig compote bits which are not great to eat to tell the truth (more sugar next time) but in the cake it was indeed an inspired idea, very delish. We had a couple of (friends' friends) guests for a couple of days, nice youngsters (Belgian-Finnish) and appreciated said cake. In exchanged they helped Alan bringing the hay we bought from village man,
due to the length and severity of the winter we run out of hay.

(Indian runner) duck eggs are in incubator meanwhile they started to lay again
as do hens, which is nice as the price of eggs doubled in the shops.

Leg is still a bit wobbly, but pain is usually if at all, more of a discomfort.
Will have the MRI on the 21st. before my first trip to Budapest this year.
We still to finalise our travel plans with the girls - it will be Marbella, Andalusia
again, Olga exchanged to an even better apartment, nearer to town and beach.

I was supposed to include a picture of Alan's lettuces growing in water thingie, but as don't feel like going out in the cold to make photos, and he's supposed to explain what it is, sorry, next time! I have instead the usual cat-picture that gave the title - waiting for spring!
and the window greens ditto. I wanted to include one of me in the middle of sciatica and -25C outside a few weeks ago, but I thought better of it, no horror stuff shown on this blog...