first harvests of the year

yes! The early cherries in Nora's section - not quite the best, but plenty left by the birds and wonderful. As they are not really good to preserve in any way, we can just eat them or giving them away. Picking them not arduous, especially in the warm sunshine with the balmy breeze we are having lately, just perfect. We have about 4 different types of lettuces, and never seen quantities of rocket, aka ruccola. So - I was creative and made pesto with the bucket of ruccola and some basil, loads of garlic... topped the jar with olive - if it behaves like other similar stuff I conserved in the past, it should last. We tried a portion mixed with kefir and parmezan on pasta - it was marvelous! Also for the pleasure of eating pasta as that was exiled from our low-carb diet... next day we had the left over pasta with the same + mushrooms, the consistency was not right - too dilute as I did not want to chuck the mushroom- juices - but the taste was fine... all gone... strawberries need a couple more days, we won't have raspberry in May this year - but tons coming up for June. There are a few leaves on the fig trees, so they are not dead - but I don't think we'll have fruit this year. But I still have a few jars of fig-compote! besides the messing with my new notebook kisbordo Acer - which was freezing up after a couple of hours use - had to take it back, see what happens next... I hope they fix it or exchange it for a good one - I took a liking to it, so pretty and light... We had our heath tests, and we are boarderline on a few things, but Alan's sugar was inside the limit, as was my cholesterol... there were a few other H-es but if the docs don't think we should worry, we won't... The Ujpetre tennis court is available, as it turned out after only 12 years or so, we might have a go while we still can. I enjoyed so much my hour with Maggie in Pecs - the Tennis club their is also comfy. We have the Whitsunday szalonnasütés to look forward to, otherwise we are just enjoying our village life, Alan busy in the garden, I am busy with my political debates - hey, Nepszava is publishing my letters after all, though heavily edited - still better than nothing. Also reading a lot and still edicted to the "Italian style" crossword puzzles. So much so, that we are about 2 months behind the Guardian quicks...

long time no see

Well, a dark rainy blogging day - was busy not to get -too- annoyed with Boully - it was a long two weeks, I am bit ashamed, but couldn't cope well. Still, it is over, and we had some nice time with Pete. Alan was busy in the garden, Bonzo is back to his naughty self. Erzsi is just has been taken out - rain or not- to the big Pécs market for Hungarian mother's day, Edit and feri is taking out 19 people for a big mothers' day meal in Budakeszi - pity it is such an unsunny day. We also had the May day village fest, with the cooking competition, Pete was chosen to be part of the 3 member jury, a task taken most seriously... I managed to have a couple of table-tennising and a proper tennis with Maggie. Which was just -so- good - and was taken afterwards to the new library building in P;cs, which, embarrassingly, I haven't looked at before. Its fantastic! Amazing Zsolnai staircase below. And the self-service bistro - very good, cheap, chearful, health-conscious... We are getting depressed by the -even for us - amazingly one-sided medea campaign for the tories - even the BBC and the Guardian is so nasty and dismissive about Corbyn, with -no- pro opinion on air anywhere. Today is the french election - after BrexTrump one cannot believe the stats - but getting the usual banker crook instead of the fascist is not such a relief really... and don't mention here... Népszava became Népszabads'g with the same format and the same policy of not publishing more letters from me... However, I enjoyed lively debates and tons of likes on the Futurelearn courses - the "challenging Wealth and inequality" did not do a lot of challenging of course, though I did a lot of prodding. Now I am doing Global politics - by a French management school - there is lots of very long-winded meaningless waffle about everything and nothing, and there are a lot of BrexTrump people regurgitating BrexTrump stuff like if they thought it up all themselves... maybe the human race is getting a bit thick? Or am I getting horrid elitist to my old age? if you haven't guessed you can see the Beremend chapel, as well as the library zsolnay, Siklós castle, hm the others probably been shown before from other angles... we stay put now, no visitors on the horizon... might do a few local trips... Alan never been to \Sopron/Kőszeg...