Pre-shopping for Xmas

I can’t wait the weekend in order to continue the hustle at home. Saturday will drop out because Krisz has keep after me for over 2 months for going to Austria, to McArtur Glen Designer Outlets in Parndorf which is near the border. Maybe we will also go to Vienna to walk the Mariahilferstrasse, the famous shopping street and if we are there I won’t omit the roasted marron.

Events of the Long Weekend

We were looking forward to the long weekend which consisted of October 23. Everyone suspicioned that the day of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution would be scandalous. The official commemoration was pontifically organized – according to the circumstances. From afternoon to the following day’s dawn there were more fights in different points of Budapest between the police and the demonstrators who were fluently on the move to avoid the encirclement by the police. The policemen used tear gas grenades, tinted water-cannons and gum shots to dismiss the crowd. According to press releases there were no impinges but there were in fact.
And now I tell about our engagement of this short holiday in general terms. On Friday we were eager to leave the office to give ourselves up to the long weekend. Still in the afternoon I started to tidy in order to move in this weekend. On Saturday morning we got up early because one of Krisz’ colleague came to us to set the antenna on the rooftop. I would’t have thought but they finished only in the evening. Now, we can see 6 man-made moon with several music channel - especially on Krisz’ great pleasure. In the evening we took my mother to a shopping centre because she was alone, my father was in the forest. On Sunday morning me & my sister decided to go to a flea market to sold some clothes. In the afternoon my father did BBQ. Anyway, the weather was fine with 22 degree the whole weekend. Then I wanted to immortalize the Elizabeth Bridge in its gala dress so we went to the town. We parked the car and walked on that part of the Gellért Hill where I never been before. It’s full of statues of notorieties from the world history and the view is great. When we came down we saw that some roads were closed, the vehicles had to choose other way. We saw that a lot of people were standing at the bridgehead seeing something down: the demonstrators were just going on parade with big national flags and banners and torchs, on old lorries called Csepel shouting ”Put the PM in prison!” or ”Join us!”. It was just like in a movie. On Monday I prepared a full breakfast then we drove to Tata (the neighbouring town of Tatabánya where I used to go to the college), to the Old Lake. I really liked even the approach, the edge of the road was full of beautiful colorful trees which got dressed in autumnal tones: the leaves were yellow, brown, quite red, rusty and few still green. We walked round the lake, it’s quite big with its 7 kms.

Afterword from the Budapest '56 Szabadság Nyilatkozat:
"A forradalom üzenete, hogy a szabadság legyőzhetetlen, az emberiség szabadságra született. A szabadság ajándék, de szabadon élni közös felelősség."

Autumnal Morning Town

Here it is a morning shot of Gellért Hill taken from the Petőfi Bridge on my way to work. The day before yesterday I went on foot through the bridge to the office instead of travelling by train. Otherwise, it seems to me that the ticket controllers come to stay on the combinos – which have been set into action again and since then it went wrong again, in some case it could not depart. I still don’t like those vehicles and not even the impolite ticket controllers. They work in gang. Sometimes I rather drive my car, but the problem is that I’m due to leave almost at the same time as if I used the vehicles of the Budapest Transport Company because of the usual morning jam. Halcyon days when the company was in Budaörs! This area is even worse since there’s ”lomtalanítás” in this district. (Please, somebody tell me the English word.) People unhouse their trucks and stuffs at this time, the things they won’t need anymore into the street in front of their house. Gipsies come with their wrecks (well-to-do with trailers) and rummage in the mess and make a dart on those things they like or of which they think can be useable. Sometimes come to grips with each other but in most cases they leave a people on the spot to guard over the things they need so that other gipsies can’t lay hands on it. I don’t like walk the streets at this time. I don’t like those people. When the garbage truck comes, there is only a small rubbish to pick up, the rest of it lies about. The most of it has been carry away by that time.
We have started to heat the House. Till now, we were fortunate in point of the weather.

Ordinary Joys

I’d like to let my beloved known about the status of our moving. We can move completely in in a week because WE HAVE MANAGED TO GET EVERY SINGLE PART OF THE WARDROBE, we’re past the assemblage, the settings, my father and Krisz inlay it during not a whole afternoon. They had to brake down some tiles to put the wardrobe in its place. It’s perfect and it’s full of clothes. I load up in the evenings and now that I do this I see how many piece of clothes we have in fact. I still need to bring away some things from home like books and articles for personal use.
There was another thing in which we found pleasure: a pussycat migrate to our garden and still hold her ground. (In fact, there were 2 of them but the older one – they might be siblings – disappeared by the following day.) Krisz would have liked to named ”Géza” but it turned out that it’s female, so its name turned to ”Gizi”. She is very friendly and playful, always march on us and if she wasn’t so insistent, I’d rather give her up because I’m afraid of the heavy traffic in the front street, a crazy driver might run her over.

Wardrobe

We have (partly) managed to got it! After long waiting and flattering we are in possession of our new ancient pickled wardrobe. It’s a too long and unamusive story to be shared with you, I’d rather don’t run afoul of it. At first, we had only the frame of it, then the doors but the shelves are still in short supply. I hope for the assemblage this weekend supposing the shelves arrive.