midweek extra

The other day we were surprised, with the missing muscovy, walking about proudly with 7 newish duckling following in line!! It seems, there was a secret laying and sitting location - good enough to be hidden from us and from the foxes. Also discovered in the sheep pen a neat goose nest with two giant eggs in it. So how come the sheep haven't stepped in it?? Alan now made a little frame around it, so this cannot happen in the future either, we have less sheep to do any trampling, as big mummy sheep and the bigger of the now adut lamb, gone visiting the daddy sheep in Újpetre.It is very late in the year for laying eggs, if a goose don't sit on them in a week, we have to eat all those eggs... Also we have little rabbit escapades, it turns out, it is a design-fault in this locally supplied special rabbit cage. Kittens having a good time giving them a chase at times - they are mostly on the front lawn, very idyllic scene... we catch them periodically with Lois's long serving Miscellaneous Animal Catcher and Holder Device (Macho for short) There was the village meeting last night - Erika a nicely and cleverly screened a little docu about her period as mayor - lots of good stuff happened in spite of the dire economic climate and special screwing of little powerless, poor villages. (I listed most of them in the blog). Afterwards nobody contributed, asked, moaned!! They were sitting there like schoolchildren in front of a frightening teacher! I think this is good for Erika - nobody could find anything to pick on her (in public at least) The one opposition candidate Gyuszi, the shopkeepers' husband, truckdriver and shopworker a few days a week - sat there like the others not saying a dickybird. He is a kind, popular man, but totally unsuitable for the job, I have no idea why he is standing, never mind. Hopefully, the villagers won't be stupid enough to vote for him (except his fairly large circle of relatives) Election on the 12th, watch this space. There are a better selection of candidates for rep than last time, even if yours truly is not standing...