OK…
English 6 is... spelled six
Hungarian 6 is spelled... Hat…
Hat in English is Hat for your head.
Hat (6) in Hungarian is pronounced “hot” or “hawt”, sounds like hot
Hot in English is hot
Hot in Hungarian is Malag…
Malag sounds a bit like malaise, which you become when you are hot...
Dohhh...and you wonder where I go off course when learning this language?
So to remember the number “6” in Hungarian I have to go through this “hot, hat , malag thing” and eventually memorise enough mental images of 6 hot hats and hope I get the right one…
as apparently 7 is Het !!!
The pronunciation of which I dare not even try yet!
Egg was another gymnastic event too.
Egg is Tojas…
Pronounced toyashe
Sounds like toy garage…
Pretty simple that one.
5 eggs please.
Ot (5)toy garages!
5 is Ot…
Number 5 (ot)was simple as Marika wrote that down for me and I was able to remember that one OK from her writing it out.
Pronounced...”ort,” or without accent, “owrt”, not “ot”, like we'd say.
Ho-hum...2 new words this month...
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| Imre starting ceiling repairs in the end room |
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| This is for Tom Warne...hahaha, 90 cents for half a litre of Kozel... |
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Wow, small amounts of work make Yuuuge visual differences for sure...compared to the many weeks of work in the past, barely being noticeable it seems.
Imre is repairing the ceilings in the end room this week, wonky and all as they are.
One beam is about 2 inches higher inline than the other 5 and is a testament to the original owners, that despite having just returned from all those gruelling years as a young man, in WW1, the place has stood firm, wonkily placed beam or not.
So it is staying put!
He is almost finished the laborious task of sanding that end room ceiling back, filling in all the gaps where plaster had fallen out over the past 100 years...ish and is now applying this binding agent/cementy type mix...(a type of bondcrete cement, I wonder?).
However, then he puts a coat of gray gloop on, then a layer of mesh, then more gloop and when it dries, he coats it with a white cement/plaster mix, rubs it all back, puts a coat of that marble type mix on it, rubs it back again, then gives it a couple of coats of whitewash!
Then he has to tackle the beams and stain them a nice beam colour!
4 of the 6 beams in there had never been painted, due to the 2 work areas in a room they had built in there, complete with a special ceiling and strange walls...all with not a nail in sight.
Amazing.
Must find out one day what that was all about.
Therefore it was a good idea to keep those beams natural in the end room and create a warm entrance into the new big room.
When the big room gets built next year, the one to replace the collapsed shed, it will have white walls and nice stained beams, so it will blend in nicely and not create too stark a contrast between the old and new.
The new room will be new and no pretence will be made to try and make it look old.
After lunch today, Imre will fix my bedroom windows as they don't shut properly!
I never worried before and just put a foam mattress we cut up to fit. That stopped the breeze, the cold and the light from entering for a full 4 months!
But now that the rooms are real rooms, my bed is right under one window where the gales from the arctic blow in, so I figure I'd better get him to plane them back a tad so they shut properly!
Then the wheels came off the shower door yesterday and he fixed that the same day.
It is so much fun having a “can do” man around the place.
My friends are now beginning to hire him for little odd jobs they need doing too.
Next week the bathroom wall finally goes in. I left it go until we had moved everything out of the house that needed to go...like sheets of wood panelling, gyprock sheets, spare windows, cement mixer, wheel barrow, lawn mower and so on, as the wall would have made it harder to navigate out the front door.
Then, on the day it sleeted and a tiny amount of snow fell, of course that was the day we planned to fix the big gate hinges and put on locking bolts etc. We also wanted to take off the little gate and turn it around so my backpack doesn't get stuck in the wire netting on the fence while going in and out.
Well, he did all of that, plus fixed the gate latch, put on a lock, complete with a massive key! He found all the pieces on old doors and gear I'd saved here, so we had to buy nothing, except the gate bolts to keep the gate from swinging back and forth in the wind.
Then he cut down the drum seats the girls from OZ painted, put the framing trim on the verandah wall, fixed a little old mirror...and when he pulled it apart, we found ancient documents from 1909 and 1910!
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| End room walls and ceiling all ready to repair now... |
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| Windows shut correctly now...another job done... |
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| Levelling the bottoms of the drum seats the girls from OZ painted... |
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| Big gates getting the bolt holder thing put in place to stop the gates wobbling around in the wind.. Hinges have just all been reinforced with new thick bolts instead of screws. |
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| Almost completed...Just need the 2 bottom bolts to be added and then more cement under the gates and that is another job out of the way. |
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| Next came swapping the hinges to the other side of the gate and fixing the latch so it worked and now locks! The tiddly bit at the top still has to be fixed on it and then the whole lot painted the original colour you can see here. Oh, and a new mail box will replace the trusted piece of drain pipe tied down with binder twine! |
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| My early morning dash by train to Debrecen on Friday to fix up my visa...92 miles by train. 1hr and 20 mins...stops all stations. |
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| If you look hard in the pre-dawn light, you'll see a paddock full of those round hay bales. |
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| This is how they use some of the round hay bales... |
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| That's what I rode in when I first came here, to the wrong town and the wrong way, of course! |
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| Nice and colourful protection barriers in Debrecen... |
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| Imre just about to complete the trim on the verandah wall where I want to preserve the old paint job here. Will paint around the trim a greenish colour, the same as the background colour I'm thinking...even though the other trims on the property will be a heritage blue/teal sort of colour like on the top of the old gate post...ish. 3.45 pm sunset, lighting up the wall there! |
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| 1pm Sun in mid November...Boy, it is low in the sky already! The pic is blackish because I aimed directly at the sun and no cloud cover. to shield it. Was surprised it came out at all, but you can see why the days are so short in winter and we still have 6 weeks to go before the shortest day! |
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| End room all ready to sand back and paint and stain the timbers when the goop dries out...probably in February with this rainy weather! Actually, I think a coat of marble type finish goes on next before the paint. Forgot that. |
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| A perfect sky the other night for the super moon. It's times like this I need my sister's hi powered lenses for my camera. But I saw it, big, bold and beautiful. |
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| Sort of this colour...for trims... |
Then, If it isn't raining when all that is done, he will get into the tool shed and fix it up with benches, paint it inside, fix the door on properly etc etc, so I can lock it up whilst away in OZ for Xmas.
A rainy, miserable day today and internet is down, so I'm doing this blog draft on the computer word program, which can run on battery or electricity.
So, lots of news.
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| All hidden safely behind a little broken mirror we were repairing with new glass. I wonder what the newspaper cutting and 2 page foolscap document are all about? Will ask the relatives first before I show it in whole to anyone. |
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| 7th May, 1910. |
More news next blog...
Bye for now,
M
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