All Happenning in June & July 2015

It has been a really busy month. The calendar was chock full of dinners, lunches, days out and general socializing.
In the main, the weather has been utterly gorgeous as well, with a thunder storm or two to cool down the heat of the day, June started off with 32 degree heat, and actually too hot for us to do anything meaningful.
The garden started to bloom in amazing fashion.

One of the few shrubs that were actually here when we bought the place, we have no idea what it is??





The utterly glorious hanging baskets we bought for a fiver each, they look like they have been switched on, the colours are so vivid.

The bad, sad news is that our attempt at giving up smoking failed!
We got very bad tempered, hot and bothered about the whole thing, so we decided not to bother!

On the 8th June our new additions to the family finally arrived, on a small enclosed trailer, our forester friend Lazlo and his helper, literally got them by the horns and herded the two girls into our bottom paddock, where he himself had planted our 550 odd trees.
They were very bewildered, having come from a large flock. Strange looking sheep, they are an Hungarian breed called Racka, reknown for being easy to keep, and timid, with these spiral horns going straight up from their head.

The general idea is that these two girls would save us the HUGE task of mowing and weed eating the field where our future fire wood is in its infancy.

After their first bewildering night, where we could not get them into their home, and eventually herded them in with the chickens, they setlled into their purpose built hut.
A week later I watched for for a good thirty minutes and low and behold, the stupid buggers are eating the very trees they were put on this earth to protect!!

Lots of re-organising ensued and they are now living in peaceful harmony with the chickens.




I organised a picnic for the members of the Balaton Britons club on the 24th June. Another excellent event, lots of food for the tables, a beautiful day, and fun was had by all at the lake.











On the 27th June, we went up into the woods behind our house in the little green Fiat, with a few bottles of wine to watch the sunset, to cut a very long story short, a few dodgy looking gipsies spoilt the ambience, and appeared to be chasing us, in a page out of the movie "Deliverance" so Steve tried to put some miles between them and us, and the car stopped almost dead having hit a rock in the dirt road, the oil light immediately came on, and we knew then that the Fiat was "Dead Fred!"


JULY 2015

We finally finished the patio. A labour of love for the last two years. Scrubbing and laying the bricks, putting up the roof, sealing the bricks with patio sealer "three times!"
Steve "Mr Perfectionist" Bailey was determined to make it perfect, and it is!

BEFORE!

AFTER!

 It is truly like being on holiday.

We then held the BIG party!!! Steves 60th birthday.....
This has been seven months in the planning and everything we have been doing in the house and garden ans been towards this day.
And what a great day it was.
36 people attended. The weather was just perfect, the company was wonderful and the whole day went off without a hitch.

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Thanks to everyone who came. A special thanks to Sue for making the cake, and Von for the curry.

We had a mega mega heatwave! Mid July was in the mid thirties, and work ceased.
Luckily the ladies found a shady spot at the Thermal baths and we had a joyous warm day out.

I love these days out with the ladies, they are very special!

The heatwave lasted until the 26th July and then the weather broke with an awesome display of thunder lightening and yay rain rain rain!
The temperature then HALVED to a very chilly 19 degrees, a huge swing from the 35-38 degrees, crazy weather but we love it!

At the end of July we had our Balaton boat cruise with the ex-pat club. This was a fabulous evening out with some good friends. Dinner served on the boat and then a wine festival at the harbour when we docked.

This is the old tug we went on. A 90 minute cruise up the lake.

Great people! Great place and awesome times!

I'll post this now and try and get on with August................... busy busy busy!