gatherings

yes, we done peas - those weird ones, were snappable after all, ok. Done a few batches of sorrel, chard, made pesto from ruccola, have a few strawberries on the long suffering 3 plants, got paprika already in the polytunnel, and after weeks of cherry- eating now we got to raspberries and black- cherries, colllected a bucketful of the latter and done the receipt which produces juice as well as jam, using veg pectin, which also means less sugar used. met old girls, gone to Budapest for a pleasant weekend, we decided to go to Poland again, retracing our first ever parents-free adventure - gasp - 48 years ago... we won't take the train to Krakow it is bloody expensive at 32K HUF while the coach is 6K! and takes the same long - 7 hours, but at more comfortable times. as you can see on the pictures, the garden is truly beautiful now, with some of Erzsi's weird flowers, the roses, the grapes... we'll have tons of those, if not on the red one, as that one started with a bad atka invasion. Also one of our apricot trees suddenly curled up and died. We had a quick very non-organic spraying - we hope we saved the others, Alan chopped all dead bits. oh - and we have 1 (one) little gosling!! We were sure with having such an old gander, we'll end up with the same smelly eggs as last years, so we thought we collected all of them - but the goose decided to sit on something - and lo and behold - one little yellow thing! And the parents are so proud of it, and incredibly aggressive - even more than usual... all that sissing... meanwhile we are overjoyed about Corbyn's success, so glad Szondzs had a positive first activist experience... well, interesting times .... also all sort of sad things happened such as Jutka's ex - grandad of 4 - suddenly died. The pics also show the fountain in P;cs just before the cruel caretaaker type of chap chaces away all the happy children... and a rainbow in Budapest from marta's window... seen a bad Kusturica film, the newest, don't bother. It has a few bizarre ideas and nothing much else. Even the music is not as good as before. also you can see Gazsi's grandtwins in the village, getting comforted after inocculation at the doc's, and our new banana tree. By the way, the mandarin-tree is flowering like mad - we'll have to find a good home for it for the winter - we plan to go back to Aghios Andreas again from mid-October...