This last week was supposed to be for resting, but we still managed to squeeze quite a lot of activities into it. The fight against the martens is still on. We finally managed to buy some rat poison and it seems to be doing some good. I am not saying that they have all left, but there is less noise and dirt than before.
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Roy and his Gypsy Roast
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My duck leg, with potatoes and braised cabbage
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Last Friday it was Roy's birthday and we went out for lunch to one of our favourite restaurants locally. The Stone Bridge is about 15 to 20 minutes away by car, it has a nice terrace and the cooking is pretty good. The size of portions is enormous and I must admit, mine was so delicious that I forced all of it down, and then suffered for it.
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Roy's cake with candle + 2 glasses of champagne
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The toast
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Roy chose his usual favourite Gypsy Roast, and he did say that it was the best he had in a long while. I went for the duck leg with potatoes crushed with onion and braised cabbage. That was first class too. Roy stayed with a pint and, as I was driving home, I was on the mineral water. We had absolutely no space for afters, but eventually we relented and had a Somlói Galuska between us. Apologies for the lack of a photograph of our dessert, but we fell upon with such speed and devoured it in 30 seconds, that photography did not occur to us at that time.
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The lounge looking in from the archway
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A nice clean stove with rug in front
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The weekend was spent with catching up on some paperwork: I did Alex's accounts, caught up with my e-mails and then set about to fill in all my cache logs with text and photos. It was an absolutely aggravating, frustrating time, as the geocaching.hu website had slowed down to unusable levels. All the IT guys, except the one that is in charge of the server, is a volunteer. Which is good financially and extremely bad technically. They tend to muck up all sorts of other functions while updating and upgrading the system and finally the system is so unhappy that it slows right down. This happened before, but it was just as annoying as last time. A job that should have taken 2 hours, took all day. Brrrrrr!!
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The back wall, TV and some pottery
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The settee with three windows on the right
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On Monday the GLS delivery of my vitamins and probiotics had arrived and had to cough up a ridiculous sum for them. Inflation is most certainly not going down in Hungary. On the contrary, it is happily approaching the ceiling and planning to get through to the attic.
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IT'S LIT!!!
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After this we set about to clean and tidy up the lounge, which has been rolled up and covered up for over a month. The stove builder was very careful, and made the minimum of mess possible for such a big job, but the room still looked like a bomb hit it. The inch thick dust, dirt and cement powder was not very easy to get rid of, bu we have done it. Ever since we have finished, I keep finding Roy standing at the entrance and admiring how nice it really is. I agree, but with Martens in the eves and attic, country dirt through every orifice the house has, I don't think this happy affair will last very long.
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Closeup of the new door
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The stove, however, is sensational. It not only looks good, it can be lit quickly and easily, unlike its predecessor. The advice was not to light proper fires in it for at least a week, but preferably for two weeks, otherwise it might suffer some damage. So this morning I set a small fire, which took easily and stayed lit for about 20 minutes. All the doors are open and we even did a proper draught through with open windows to help the drying process. The weather got quite cold lately, so I do hope we can use the stove fairly soon, although the central heating can heat the place until the stove is fully commissioned.
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Let us hope it'll heat the house well!
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So, that is all that had happened this last week. Roy tells me we have some apples on the apple trees ready to harvest, so tomorrow we will have to do that. The other day he brought in 4 apples from one of the trees and one of them was enormous. I am looking forward to eating it sometime, as it is so large, it could be an entire meal. Next post, hopefully, next Wednesday.
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