still here - just a few more pics

concentrate on Juci's megasandwich. Cherries look ok but not the best this year. all is green and beautiful - feel bad leaving the lettuces behind - they'll be so good so soon... well, there are lettuces every year, but Marc get wed not very often and Toronto sounds exciting... we got detailed instructions how to endure the flight... will be in touch...

probably last in May, see you in Canada!

More weird insects this year than I remember, including those little red flower-like growth on leaves, see photo. Also we have the invasion of tiny dead flying ants. A had to sweep them up this morning from the kitchen floor. I can't see them today. Also Alan saw a good sized snake - don't tell Erzsi, she won't come over ever again. Unfortunately by the time I went out with the camera it was gone. Alan was convinced it was a viper, it was over a meter long and beautifully patterned. But it was just a large specimen of a grass-snake, as it turned out, checked on the internet. Also today - a bunch of honey-bees from Nora's plot, that I heard swarming, from our toilet window, is settled in Erzsi's front yard on a lilac bush. Our honey-man (who supplies us with locally made honey) is on his way to get them. So we are definitely having an interesting life-sciences day today... we couldn't do justice with the photo, not daring going to near, but the dark/black bit is all bee. The other photos are; a better one of the fitness room I hope, the wood-workshop in the yard of the council. Oh, and there was a big do in the village culture house, the local ethnic german council is 20 years old, there was the usual slightly tedious program, food and dance.

have I mentioned a wedding?

Well, it's Martin and Sharon if I have not, it happens on the 18th, in Toronto, in Sharon's mum's apartment, a small affair, even if turning out to be a bit bigger than the kids planned. Main thing is that they are happily sharing their clever little world. We are off to Canada on the 2nd June (after a few days in Budapest), and return on the 29th. Meanwhile the ducklings are growing, soon relocating with the rest to Dodi's ; we harvested the siberian berries, they look giant on the photo, but in fact they are about 2cm or less, and a bit tasteless sour and not enough of them to cure all our ills, even if they are supposed to... Dodi chopped off the ill bits off the fur-type trees in the front of the other house, they are ill, it is some sort of epidemic. They had to be sprayed, too. The eating grapes here also have some sort of flea, which again needed to be sprayed - so not to organic these stuff. There is a fresh picture of Pecs operahouse from last week's gallivanting; and the Kiskassa view as seen from our front bench a few hours ago. And the spring fields on one of our walk to Pecsdevecser got ourself soaked, umbrella was not much help. it has been raining every day for ages, and the forecast is not good, doesn't look good for the cherries... So, Alan is doing all his planting and grass cutting, and me as little as I can get away with. Our futurelearn courses are starting tomorrow, one about anxiety, one about propaganda and ideology of our time... I started arguing already, fun, fun, fun.

Kiskassa May-day fun

not a sunny day, but not cold and the pomised rain did not (quite) materialised. The gulyas soup was very nice out of the cauldron, especially as we did not have to put in the work - we had the pensioner's team product, of course, that won first prize. Later, after the Leicester-MU match, Dodi and Timi had a look of the little ducklings, and liked them of course and followed the usual jamming - Dodi and Alan guitaring, Timi singing, I'm doing crosswords in the next room and shouting translations as necessary.