early winter in Milnrow

unfortunately I cannot work out how to get my lovely Manchester an Milnrow autumn - winter photos on Grandad's rather lousy PC - so they have to wait until we get back to Kiskassa. Grandad is doing better than his PC - he is his cheerful self, looking after Muriel most evening, warming up and serving tea for both of them. He is a little bit wobblier than last year, but otherwise as active as can be - with lots of telly. We've seen friends, been to Rochdale and saw Manchester xmas market. And lots of telly. Szonya was here first weekend, took us 4 old'ns out the good girl as she is, very pleasant meal in the place next to the lake. meanwhile Lois and Judith are both having non-too-serious but of course still worrysome operations, hope all is well this time next week. Erzsi reported, that our wood is sawed up, and Bonzo is ok, upto mischief, but managed not to escape. so, more when back.

remember, remember...

so right on the 5th we had the most wonderful bonfire night, started with Drew's bogrács lamb gulyás and continued with the most fantastic home-done fire-works - Dodi came over with Kristóf, our own fire-work specialist. He's a lovely lad, with a lot of fascinating hobbies... but he's a pro, actually working for the past years for a local fire-work manufacturer, and had been invited to a Genoa fire-work festival this summer! Anyways, it was abs fab, if a bit frightening, like "real" fireworks going off 15meters from you... was well visible from Pécsdevecser we were told. A few days before - or was it after? We visited Máriagyüd, which is part of Siklós on a hillside and is a pilgrimage place where the Virgin chose to appear in the 18 hundreds and is making a nice little income from the visitors ever since. The EU (!) gave tons of money to the village to make up the place. Anyway, as we went to a suggested paint-shop there (for wood-rot curing stuff, very good shop, helpful owner) we had a little walk round thus the photos. Yesterday in the new pizza-bistro in Újpetrol, there was an enjoyable little music evening; local sheep and goat man Robi borrowed Alan's electric and with Dodi, they had a tidy little rock gig, some Hungarian numbers that were not that old and better than expected. Pizza is so-so, kebab and palacsinta better. As for Trump - this is my opinion more or less exacly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs finished European Culture and Politics - enjoyed it with decent chance to argue. Fresent lot on "The mind is flat" is fairly docile - but than it is done by a business school... it is also reading and crossword season. Bonzo still happy, and hasn't sneaked out what - for about 3 days... question what to do now that we got so close and sentimental (started to cry when I go to the shop!) - we will be away for nearly a month... he might move to Erzsi's, or something.