guests!! Pickup!! WWoofer!!

The French ones were just lovely - helped me with a serial disaster, while Alan was in Budapest welcoming Pete and Bullie. The hot water refused to function in the guest house (solved now!!) so they had to come over to ours for showers, and yes, the drains played up here - has never happened before, of course. That got solved the next day, I got out the dugulas chap, who's the expert at blockages... So in spite of all this, Quentin and Anais offered to repair the French directions on Hostelworld, he said it was dismal. They worked on it for hours, and then even insisted paying me for their stay... Pete and Bullie arrived and settled, with Pete being an enthusiastic helper to Alan, doing welding and plowing and tons of other stuff, while Bullie managed to sort out all her stuff she left here 7 years ago, including some retro dresses, that pleased a lot our wwoofer Candy (see photo, Candy with Bullie now after the text, which is better I think...), who also arrived and settled and done all the grass mowing I would have done usually but had failed doing so far due to dodgy back. (I've seen the rheumatologist last, and was duly prescribed a course of exercises and massage at the Siklós clinic, to be attended 4 times a week.) Which won't be a problem - as we have transport!! (see photo) sorry, we sold out... got fed up with being stuck and relying on lifts and buses. Now we can fit at least 5 goats and 5 people into this lovely 9 years old toyota hilux. Alan and Pete scrubbed it yesterday - it used to belong to a professional hunter, and was a bit messy... So by the time (cca 10pm) the next guests arrived yesterday, all was sorted! And we've got Moritz, an absolutely adorable 15 months old and his parents, Karl will defend his PhD on Wednesday at Pécs uni - the main object of their stay, but as that only takes about 30min, they decided to have a holiday as well, with mum Katya, who is Russian, they are staying 7 nights and seem to made friends already with other guests and wwoofer. The ducklings were a bit of a disaster - 10 hatched, but they were too weak to survive for some reason - we have to look into it - another lot will be tried. The peas are showing nicely - everything is late due to the horrid cold weather we had, though the lilac is flowering everywhere earlier than usual. Alan, guests and wwoofer are at the giant Pécs Sunday market, I am enjoying a bit of solitude, trying to rest my back while catching up on cleaning/washing...