Good Tuesday

Everything somehow worked fine today - maybe there are lots of days like this, but this time we noticed; probably because we expected much hassle. We drove to Siklós, was worried about freezing rain, but it just ended up a bit of a rain, that stopped anyway. First job was to replace the main car-ownership papers - we somehow managed to mislay the folder with all our records and documents deemed important about Hyppo (silver lining: we tidied up all the places where we haven't found them) so we were told by our insurance agent, that we should report it to the police - but we've just gone the the council offices and they were really good, just had to sign a statement that we lost it and were told to collect the new one in a few weeks...! Then I went to the hospital to look at my lung screening report from the October check-up, lung stuff worries me as I have a cough sort of nearly every day, and I had worked in some unhealthy labs in pre health and safety times, anyway - the results were given to me in no time - negative, even my heart is the right size and in the right place apparently. Then we got salt-lick for the goats and sheep and some more posh food for cat 2 who lately seems to be frightened of her food and only seems to enjoy milk and a bit of pate sometimes. They were very nice to us everywhere today... Then we had a bit of a walk, went to the little market that was open today, got fruit and salad stuff and meat from the butcher that seemed closed for good last time... We had lunch in the Railway restaurant, which was full of people, the set menu was a tasty and large portion of potato+veg soup, then meat pancake (hortobágyi palacsinta) for Alan and pork schnitzel (two large tasty non-fat pieces) with chips, rice (I left most of these!! - remember - we are on diet) and gherkin for me. With the (proper Romanian) orange juice and tonic water and coffee 2100HUF (cca 6UKpounds), with an apple and little piece of chocolate extras! And a wrapper of the said little choc in Alan's espresso - one of the young waiters nicked a choc and the wrapper ended up in the cup... poor lad was given a proper (if quiet) bollocking by the manager... then on the way home we had a call from Erzsi, that she managed to arrange a swap one of our curmudgeon gander for a lady goose, at last - and turned out that she was calling from the Újpetre just when we approached and could give her a lift. And we received our supply of honey from the local bee-man. Also had an enjoyable lesson with Zoltán, and now we are ready for today's Scrabble duel...