proper spring

we had another pleasant weekend in Budapest; the fateful meal went well with Norman and Ani, with Alan being good at strategic placing and being amiable. The gundel pancake was a disappointment, and Alan ended up with a very nuvo-couzine (sp?=tiny) steak and meal was drastically overpriced, but the main thing was to meet at last and nobody being unhappy. Went to a concert of classical guitar to the Zsolnai center and found a new bit - a beautiful room "Apostolok". It wasn't big but was full, Csaki Andras (hope I got this right) was the artist, and Vic and Maggie liked it too, and they know about these things. Another very enjoyable evening He played a piece by Rozsa Miklos - the other one. Took Erzsi and Tibi to Siklos yesterday to shop and afterwards had a look at Timi's new place in Harkany, and had cakes. She is infinitely better off then she was in the basically horrid house they rented in Kiskassa - for the same money - to my amazement. supposed to rain a bit today, but started with 15C at 7:30, so can't be bad. Chickens are happy and Bonz was not barking at me like mad, so it looks like a good day, though poor old Jani bácsi - his wife of 57 years suddenly died in a brain haemorrhage - "still planted beans last night" he said, we are quite upset. I thought uptil now that it was a second marriage, she looked so much younger than him. I attacked grasses (delicacy for rabbits and hens) in front of the house while waiting for icecream man (oops) and now worried about back, so far so good. Tomorrow table-tennis! It is arranged that nice village woman Magdi will clean other house and stables before Pete and Boully come. I hope she's perfectionist, would be nice to have it done properly once. Pictured are Siklos and Kiskassa views, our mandarin-tree (thank you bears) I cannot downsize photos with our new setup, that's why recently they are over 1M - I wonder how long before blogspot step on me, though they allow videos now - must have been changing to those large databanks I've heard about recently...