Spring has broken out

Well, the weather has definitely gone completely barmy!  All over the world! Canada has ice storms, minus 29 or lower and quite a lot of snow as well.  England, Wales and Scotland (I don't really know about Ireland) has enormous storms on its coast, torrential rain, flooding and then Hungary has 5-10 degrees Celsius, total calm with not a whiff of wind, but no sunshine, low cloud, fog, smog and generalised depression to go with it. I am yet to see a blue tit or even a great tit on the feeder.  There have been a few finches, but those are loud and quarrel a lot, so I don't like them as much as I like the tits.

Whinge over, a few things that happened since I last posted. My sore throat and earache came back.  So did my cough, so I will have to get some antibiotics, if it kills me.  (It probably will!!)  I started catching myself up with jobs that I had hanging over me for months. I finished the translation of Roy's document on Henrik Ripszam, so that it can be submitted for the book that is being prepared about him. I sent both the document and the Powerpoint presentation from the conference to the editor.  Then I started again on the marrige register transcription that has been around for years.  What's left is the rest of that, plus some others, plus some translation for the Family History Society and the transcription of a speech I promised to some friends in London about 4 months ago.  The rest of the time is my own!

The saga of the geocache has concluded on the day of my last post, but after I posted it.  After the more sadistic section of the moderating body made me promise all manner of stupid things, like I am going to investigate the possibility of putting out a real cache in the middle of the city and other such nonsense, the votes stood at 7 for and 4 against at the time of the end of 72 hours and the system automatically passed my cache.  I have never yet been in such a situation, so I didn't know that was going to happen.  Once 72 hours went past you get approval even with a difference of one vote, never mind three!! So it went out in the evening on the 1st and currently it has already been found by 86 people and the total increases all the time.  I suppose it has been a long time since the moderators approved a downtown city virtual cache, so everybody was keen to get it. The only utterly ridiculous thing is that one of the moderators made me increase the difficulty level to 2 when a not particularly bright 2 year old can find it in the dark and with his eyes closed. The picture below is of the lovely XIXth century block that is right behind the cache on the back of a bench.

The other fantastic event of the last week was yet another Skype call from Callum, which was just as delightful as the previous one.

Currently I am back in town as I have a concert tonight and hopefully should go caching tomorrow, although the weather is abysmal again.  Today, coming in on the bus, the fog was so thick I could hardly see anything on the other side of the windows. No views then tomorrow, I suppose!