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Managed to return from Budapest with severe effects of very cold icecream, bit of chilly wind and probably some confused virus... Sneeze, cough, boxes of tissues and 5 days later I am nearly back to normal, now Alan started with it, but the weirdly simultaneously shown final games of Man United and Man City seem to be helping at the moment, especially as United is up by a goal at the moment... We also have a well forecast cold front after a hot week of 30Cs we are down to 12C with lots of rain last night. I missed a week of massage and physio, all restarting tomorrow. WWoofer Candy left yesterday for coachsurfing in Budapest, and our new wwoofers are in Pécs, rearing to get their hands dirty here from Tuesday. Our Polish family with lovely little Lenka arrived back here on Friday and gone on their long drive home yesterday. Milk/egg/lettuce doing well, figs showing signs of life. The nice early cherries had definitely had it with the frost as did the apricots, which is sad. However, the other cherries will do it, if much smaller in numbers, and Lois - the peas are growing like mad. Also the grapes and the raspberries look if anything a bit overenthusiastic. Alan got in one batch of hay already with Candy, with this rain the next lot will grow fast - as do the weeds all over the place, all grass need to be cut again. A few bits and pieces of pictures/artefacts and books need sorting in the other house and Bouli's left a few small mountains of miscellaneous stuff than need tidying away, that is the domestic task of the next few days. As for the public problems, tomorrow is work-meeting, all about the work-fare team. As I mentioned, unemployed people here are given the "pleasure" to work for about half of the minimum wage in particular periods of the year and not all of them can or expected to participate. Anyway, their supervision tended to fall to representative Gazsi, who against my optimistic expectation, is drunk most of the time, which commands not a lot of prestige... anyway, one of the workers - who does most good work (which is usually cutting the grass on the public paths, cemetery etc) who happens to be a roma, attacked and broke in half the handle of an expensive motor mower... so one of the typical local rows is brewing and needs smoothing out. Good luck to us... I hate new blogspot format it doesn't allow paragraphs! Anyone knows how?? Thanks for encouraging comment, Amanda. Photos show Candy victorious after clearing the steps on her last working day which was very very hot, and little Lenka having kept quiet while his dad is showing us fantastic clips of the Kotor Bay.