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...

busy April, back for a short while us mobile old'ns

not long - off to Bp again for the weekend, as Drew's folks are visiting, and we'll have a long expected meeting ( a meal) with them. Dad's bday, Martin and Sharon's visit in Kiskassa as well as in Budapest went well, not counting the heartache of them living so far,with the usual not too worrying hiccups - old and odd parents (us) behaving and feeling silly, mostly. As for the farm - Imre - a friend of Timi's who just moved into the village, looked after it excellently. Erzsi was not well again - this time it was a nasty allergy reaction/inflammation. The geese are sitting on eggs, which never happened (to us) before, very exciting. Alan's onions look good, other stuff planted, lettuce pickable under the glass. Unfortunately the sorrel is now open to the sheep, but Alan says he planted some. Fotos are all from the mobile, so when flash usually needed, they're a bit hazy. Women's day; Dad's birthday, classic (retro?) cinema visit, my happy sis, Kiskassa fitness room, the site of our aggressive table tennis when we can get to it, kids, such as Martin's somloi galuska. . The weather was fine all the way through (even in Milnrow, mostly) with cold gusts.