The first week back

No pictures this time as I have not taken any. Lots to do back home, some of which had got done others not. It poured hard with rain the first three days, so we stayed indoors. Lots of post, filing, e-mail answering, picture and video downloading, cleaning, washing etc., etc. got done. We brought some food with us from BP, otherwise we existed on very little mostly out of the freezer. Finally on Thursday the sun came out, so we went to Hatvan. We had the winter tyres put on the car, shopped at Tesco's and I carried on my spending spree by ordering a new phone. I eventually found an outfit that would sell me a network independent Nokia 3600 for about £125 and I could even choose the colour. Went for plum this time, let us hope I like it, as she could not show me one. We also ordered an SX4 rubber fender protector that Roy fancied on somebody else's car in BP from the garage where they changed the tyres. Both the phone and that should be in by next Friday.

Friday the 13th was a nightmare. I have never been supertitious, but I might have a conversion based on that day. We have tried to burn a CD with no success for 2 hours, until we gave up and used the old desktop's ancient, wonky CD burner. There were other things that didn't work either until we gave in and ceased trying to do anything. We did prune the roses earlier, which at least was a useful bit of activity, but we did not achieve much on that Friday.

On Saturday we went to Paszto en route to the orienteering in Salgotarjan. We bought two big bags of bird seed, which the tits have been chomping on ever since. We posted Andrew's CD and bought some peat and raspberry plants.

The orienteering was great, but I managed to get myself off the podium by makign a silly mistake on one route choice. Still, I ended up 4th (not last) in a field which with the exception of Marika consisted of women up to 10 years younger than myself.

Today we planted the raspberries and tidied up prior to a guest coming. Roy made friends with Peter, an Englishman, from the next village and he popped over for some cheese, salad, wine and conversation. Only he didn't drink the wine as he was driving. Roy didn't mind that one bit as it was a nice drop of Merlot, he was rather partial to. He seemed a very interesting guy and we hope we will stay friends in the future.

On Tuesday I am off to Bratislava for a demo, otherwise next week is fairly quiet. The weekend will be spent in the South at the Juniper Cup, the season closer in the painful juniper jungle. Watch this space for photos and report in a week or so's time!