This was quite a busy week. Last Thursday Heino and Manet came over and told us that they still couldn't get a pre-paid SIM card. I suggested that they should get a Registration Card, which all EU citizens can get easily. I even offered to help them with finding out the ins and outs and going with them for the first time to translate etc.
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| The cake at Heino and Manet's |
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| A very happy Roy at lunch |
Fool me. I didn't realise that what was a 10 minute visit to Immigration Control 12 years ago for Roy, is now a heavy handed application process, with Declaration of Intent written by the applicant, and various documents submitted, like financial status, health insurance status and accommodation status. Finally, he decided that he will deal with this next time they come over, by which time he should have written proof of his income from his bank, a copy of the purchasing contract of his house, and his EHIC card for health insurance. The latter I think is insufficient, but we'll see.
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| Specimen registration card |
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| Specimen address card |
We were invited to their house on Monday for lunch and while we didn't go anywhere, the lunch was still on. I like them ever so much, they are fun to be with and I hope they'll come back soon. I think they are leaving for home in a week's time, so we hope to see them at least once again before they go.
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| The champagne |
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| And the aftereffects |
New Year's Eve was fun. Amazingly, we both managed to stay up until about quarter to 2 am on New Year's Day, although we felt a bit woozy the following day. We drank an entire bottle of champagne between us and watched the fireworks in both Budapest and London. On New Year's Day I rang Nelly in Budapest to find out how she is getting on. She sounded very chirpy. We chattered for a good while, which is not particularly typical of her.
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| The details of the translation office |
Monday was the planned visit to the Immigration Office with Heino and Manet, but we didn't go as I managed to find out on the telephone how many things are needed to get a registration card. We still had lunch with them, which we much enjoyed. I also managed to phone the official translating agency, which we will need to deal with during the process of getting Hungarian nationality for Roy. It turns out that their rates are exhorbitant, but I suppose, if you are keen, you'll have to put up with paying it.
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| The Dacia Duster warning light |
Then we left for BP on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, only about 2 kilometres out of the village, the car started coughing and eventually the engine stopped. Roy noticed that there is an electronic alarm showing on the instrument panel, which neither of us knew what it was. I rang the garage and they said all sorts of daft stuff, which I didn't believe, but offered to have a look at it today at 3pm. The funny thing was, that once we turned the engine on again, all was well, and has been ever since. Spooky!
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| Tritace |
En route to BP on Tuesday we stopped at a pharmacy and got my medicines, prescription of which was in the cloud to facilitate buying it anywhere. Good system, I think I will thank Kati for getting my prescriptions until now, but with the cloud, I can ring the nurse, had the prescription put up into the could and then buy it in BP, or anywhere else. As I was on the very last few Tritace tablets, that was the really important, but now I have a month's worth of all of them.
Dr. Bartha, my cardiologist, was very nice. They did an ECG, which seemed to worry the assistant, but the doctor was OK with it. I thanked her for my coronaria CT and the recommendation for the subsidised price for my Eliquis. Patients come first! - she told me, and I love and admire her for that. We need more Dr.; Barthas in this world. Unless I have some concerns, I won't have to go back to see her for a year.
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| We'll buy one of these next week, I hope |
And then on Wednesday we were supposed to go to the West End Centre to buy a new TV, but we didn't. Roy came up with a marvellous idea of taking the old TV from the flat in BP to Bér and buy a new one for the flat. This way there is no urgency to get a TV this week, prior to the engineer coming to install the new cable TV/Internet and landline next Monday. We can do our research into which is the best TV to get. My good friend, Feri, has already told me to buy an LG 55" 4K OLED smart TV, as they are on special offer for £750 instead of a £1000. I will have a mountain to climb with the effort to convince Roy to spend that much on a TV. On the other hand, the space is just right for one in the flat, so we'll see.
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| The new Duster |
En route home today, we went shopping in Tesco and Lidl in Gödöllő, followed by the car being looked at also in Gödöllő, costing about £35 to be told that there was a sensor that went funny yesterday morning, but now everything was fine. On the other hand, should it happen again, we will have to have the sensor replaced.
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| Nibble half "doctored" pizza |
Dinner was a lovely pizza, which we have doctored as we usually do. It ended up a Cinque Fromaggi (mozzarella, Edam, blue, Ementhaler and Cheddar), con pomodoro, cipolla i funghi. I didn't know I know Italian, but obviously all my knowledge comes from eating pizza.
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| Lovesick Laka |
And finally today, (Thursday), we had a busy day, mostly with phonecalls and plans for later on in the year. Boysa phoned with news of concerts. I might join her now and again, but not necessarily for every one. We had a lovely chinwag, I much enjoyed it. Then Stephen phoned and we fixed up the details, (as far as one can this far in advance), for their visit in August. At the end he booked their tickets, so they will be with us between 8th and 17th August. Start and finish couple of days all of us, in the middle Stephen and hopefully Hannah too, staying in the flat in BP, while the kids and us will have fun in Ber. Let us hope the bloody pandemic doesn't scupper it!
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| The blue on the left is Alex's |
I also spoke to Alex and now it looks as if Roy and I will spend two weeks between Roy's birthday, (27th September), and Thanksgiving, (10th October), in Canada. We will spend some time in Toronto, some at Lovesick Lake at their trailer and at the end we'll probably spend Thanksgiving at St. Catharines with Heather and Lyle. Stephen is also planning to spend Half Term with the boys in Canada, but we'll unfortunately miss that. I bet the boys are over the Moon over both trip, although they do not know yet.
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| Soul Dental |
Next week we will have to get back to town, as Roy is having 2 dental implants in his mouth and I will have to catch up my UK and American series on television as the internet here is still terribly slow. I do hope that as of next week Vodafone will give us a better service.
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