Yet another very busy week, surprisingly in BP, not Bér (more about that later)

After mentioning going home to Bér on Friday last week, the Town Council meeting was moved to Monday, so there was no point in going home just for a couple of days, so we stayed. I had some long outstanding paperwork to do, so I did it. Unfortunately, my flu is back with a vengeance, so I ended up basically spending this extra time in BP in bed. Roy has been great, doing shopping and other stuff.

Geoff Burke's kayaking in the Shetlands

Alex sent me a link to a kayaking video, which I watched on my phone. A Scottish guy took himself and 4 friends to the Northern tip of the UK, into wild seawater, waves, tides, rocks, caves, tunnels and other delights. Alex suggested that I set up for seeing it on the big TV screen and amazingly I managed to find all the settings to change etc. It was superb on the big screen, and I will do some more of that in the future.

Muckle Flugga lighthouse, the Northern tip of UK

 

There were a few problems with a variety of comrades in the branch, but hopefully it is being addressed as I write this. Levi got back from Jordan and Adriam, Zsófi and I had a word with him. I was definitely expecting him to react like a 2 year old, but he did surprise us all, ate plenty of humble pie and promised to mend his ways. Let’s hope he keeps his promise!

 

Hanna and Noor cooking in Bér

Recently Hanna has also gone funny on me. She was/is sick, so not attending branch, and is very miserly on the communication front. Apparently, she handed in her notice, which was a good move methinks, but not letting me know of everything behind her lack of attendance is not good. I have written to her and am expecting the response. I hope she will not pick up on where Levi didn’t and throw a tantrum.

Call the Midwife cast

I am still watching Call the Midwife and Silent Witness on BBC, but ITV’s Vera has finished for this year. I actually managed to finish watching all 30 available episodes of Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes, and they were all fantastic.

Emilia Fox in Silent Witness

Monday night I went to Zsófi’s flat for the inaugural Town Council meeting. It went OK, although there were a few awkward moments when Levi was his usual impatient self. Apparently he is going to hand her notice in soon, as he cannot cope with the political work with working those horrible hours. The crisis of capitalism gets to everyone, even young people. Yesterday we had an executive meeting, where I didn’t go and just took part online. This flu is horrible and I cannot see how I can function with its extremely slow improvement. My good friend Viktor has just written that both he and his wife have got it now, but the government is still insisting that there is no epidemic.

Rob and Alan's Lenin biography

 

My two major jobs in the organisation currently are: 1. The Organisational Document and 2. Some translation work for the next issue of Fáklya. The latter was dumped on me, which just shows how few of us there are who can do most things and while the membership is growing, the competences of those new ones are as yet fairly minimal. Never mind, I like translating work, especially since using DeepL makes it a thousand times faster than it used to be. 

 

Márkó sitting on the middle of the fallen tree

I started on the translation first, even though the Congress document is more important. The main reason being, that Jack has postponed our chat by two weeks and I would prefer to start writing it after I know what he wants. Also, other than Márkó, I never got too much data about the months before I joined. I’ll have to make it up as I go along, methinks. I hope that all things will sort themselves out in the next week and I will be happily scribbling the next post in Bér, having fed my poor starving song birds from the new sack of seed.