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Maanantai 🇫🇮 Hétfő 🇭🇺 Monday 🇬🇧

A bit of summer in the air


After finishing breakfast and the much-needed coffee, I decided to visit my friends at the craftsman store. It's been a while since I last saw them, so it was high time I did something about it. I bought paint for the wooden fence and the iron thing that holds it. Then I popped into two more stores to buy some toilet requisites and food for Abby. After returning home, I prepared lunch: cooked potato with fish fingers and cucumber salad. It was delicious.

As for my English studies: I went through two units in the "Színes kérdések és válaszok" book. I guess it was written by two Hungarian linguists and proofread by a British guy. Its main focus is vocabulary, and it tries to introduce new words, expressions, phrasal verbs, and idioms through many interesting contemporary topics. It was the B2 level book I started with, but I haven't regretted it for a moment. There aren't many unknown words in it, so it is a perfect example to see the difference between B1, B2, and C1 level texts.

The weather was great today. Despite being told how rainy this week will be, we haven't seen any grey clouds in the sky. The highest temperature was +25°C, which was perfect for our afternoon walk. I really enjoyed it by the way. Since the weather is said to be good till Friday, I'll have plenty of time to start painting the fence. It won't be an easy task because I have to dismantle and sand the wooden slants and put them back on the metal thing. But at least it will look nice. And so will I with the tan...
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