19th October 2008.
Dear All,
This week I started my U3A courses designed to stretch mind and body! Monday was “Geoddysey” which covers how the solar system developed and the characteristics of the stars and planets. It was a bit high powered and made my brain hurt in places, but nonetheless very interesting, especially as it was liberally illustrated by pictures from the Hubble space telescope.
Thursday I joined the ramblers at Sutton near Biggleswade for an 8.25 mile walk from Sutton via Biggleswade, Sandy and Potton. The best part of the walk was through the RSPB headquarters at Sandy Warren, where numerous trees are rapidly adopting autumn colours. The group were very friendly but again high powered as in: “I lectured in Physiology” or “I research in stem cells” or “My daughter-in-law writes for the Guardian (Jess Cartner-Morley)” but very friendly. The distance was no problem but the pace was reminiscent of Graham Brown on a bad day so no slouching!
Sutton
I did another Garden Club talk this week at Coton: “Salads AYR” they were very friendly but it never ceases to amaze me how different various clubs are. Some are so formal you would think it was a City board meeting (minutes, apologies, outings, competitions), others so laid back that they could be in the Caribbean (this is Mr Day – he will introduce himself!)
My friend John Lane who was biking across USA finished Friday in 48 days – he had allowed 64 so obviously made excellent progress. He kept a daily blog which makes entertaining reading. His average was 70 miles per day and the whole journey was 2,820 miles. You can check it out on: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/cyclelane
Getting stuck into the winter digging and pruning in the garden and have planted winter lettuce, more onion sets and sown broad beans. We had home grown potatoes, leeks, sprouts, parsnips, squash, blackberries and raspberries today for lunch. The muntjac will be added as soon as I get a good recipe as he stripped a whole row of lettuce this week!
Onion Squash
Watched Over lose away at Hardwick yesterday but it was a pleasant afternoon – and football has never been just about wining – ask Ipswich, Southampton, Derby, Spurs, Colchester, Norwich (need I go on?)
Love
Mike & Kate
Dear All,
This week I started my U3A courses designed to stretch mind and body! Monday was “Geoddysey” which covers how the solar system developed and the characteristics of the stars and planets. It was a bit high powered and made my brain hurt in places, but nonetheless very interesting, especially as it was liberally illustrated by pictures from the Hubble space telescope.
Thursday I joined the ramblers at Sutton near Biggleswade for an 8.25 mile walk from Sutton via Biggleswade, Sandy and Potton. The best part of the walk was through the RSPB headquarters at Sandy Warren, where numerous trees are rapidly adopting autumn colours. The group were very friendly but again high powered as in: “I lectured in Physiology” or “I research in stem cells” or “My daughter-in-law writes for the Guardian (Jess Cartner-Morley)” but very friendly. The distance was no problem but the pace was reminiscent of Graham Brown on a bad day so no slouching!
Sutton
I did another Garden Club talk this week at Coton: “Salads AYR” they were very friendly but it never ceases to amaze me how different various clubs are. Some are so formal you would think it was a City board meeting (minutes, apologies, outings, competitions), others so laid back that they could be in the Caribbean (this is Mr Day – he will introduce himself!)
My friend John Lane who was biking across USA finished Friday in 48 days – he had allowed 64 so obviously made excellent progress. He kept a daily blog which makes entertaining reading. His average was 70 miles per day and the whole journey was 2,820 miles. You can check it out on: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/cyclelane
Getting stuck into the winter digging and pruning in the garden and have planted winter lettuce, more onion sets and sown broad beans. We had home grown potatoes, leeks, sprouts, parsnips, squash, blackberries and raspberries today for lunch. The muntjac will be added as soon as I get a good recipe as he stripped a whole row of lettuce this week!
Onion Squash
Watched Over lose away at Hardwick yesterday but it was a pleasant afternoon – and football has never been just about wining – ask Ipswich, Southampton, Derby, Spurs, Colchester, Norwich (need I go on?)
Love
Mike & Kate
2 comments:
hey dad! I can still get on and it's much easier than trying to download your letter from the attachment. I didn't need to log on - should I? (although it seems i need to to leave a comment)
Esther
love the muntjac joke - keep them coming
ali
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