8th February 2009.
Dear All,
The main irony this week must be that I could not get to my “Antarctica” course on Thursday due to heavy snow! We had heavy snowfalls on Monday and Thursday with lighter showers on Friday. Kate was sent home early on Monday and did not go in until lunchtime Thursday. This, of course, gave the decorating a shot in the arm and we have now finished. The walls are “Niagara Blue” to match the new rug with the new, as yet unpurchased, curtains supplying the brighter colours! Trickiest job this week was moving the fish tank so that we could strip and paint behind it. This involved siphoning out 80% of the water through a rubber pipe into the outdoor drain. I checked half way through and found 4 baby fish swimming around in the fortunately blocked drain amongst flakes of ice. Just the job for tropical fish but 3 have survived.
Anyway the room has been cleaned, the new rug laid and the first meal with guests partaken today. So far we are going for the “Japanese minimalist” look as the new furniture has yet to arrive.
Dear All,
The main irony this week must be that I could not get to my “Antarctica” course on Thursday due to heavy snow! We had heavy snowfalls on Monday and Thursday with lighter showers on Friday. Kate was sent home early on Monday and did not go in until lunchtime Thursday. This, of course, gave the decorating a shot in the arm and we have now finished. The walls are “Niagara Blue” to match the new rug with the new, as yet unpurchased, curtains supplying the brighter colours! Trickiest job this week was moving the fish tank so that we could strip and paint behind it. This involved siphoning out 80% of the water through a rubber pipe into the outdoor drain. I checked half way through and found 4 baby fish swimming around in the fortunately blocked drain amongst flakes of ice. Just the job for tropical fish but 3 have survived.
Anyway the room has been cleaned, the new rug laid and the first meal with guests partaken today. So far we are going for the “Japanese minimalist” look as the new furniture has yet to arrive.
Finished
New Rug
I have had a couple of good snowy walks round the fens this week, one on my own and the other with Kate in bright sunshine yesterday.
I did an afternoon Garden Club talk in Cambridge on Thursday, which is unusual. I wondered whether they would be an ancient audience who might not brave the weather, but in fact they were quite lively, evidently numbers swelled by people who couldn’t get to work.
I was supposed to give a talk at St Neots as part of their evangelism week entitled “Unusual vegetables and Christianity!” make of that what you will, but it was a casualty of the weather.
We have had a man from the London City Mission guesting at church today and he has been here for lunch. He is an ex druggie, alcoholic, Rastafarian, JW, so has some experience for his current job as chaplain to the London Ambulance Service.
Cambridge Monday
I have had a couple of good snowy walks round the fens this week, one on my own and the other with Kate in bright sunshine yesterday.
I did an afternoon Garden Club talk in Cambridge on Thursday, which is unusual. I wondered whether they would be an ancient audience who might not brave the weather, but in fact they were quite lively, evidently numbers swelled by people who couldn’t get to work.
I was supposed to give a talk at St Neots as part of their evangelism week entitled “Unusual vegetables and Christianity!” make of that what you will, but it was a casualty of the weather.
We have had a man from the London City Mission guesting at church today and he has been here for lunch. He is an ex druggie, alcoholic, Rastafarian, JW, so has some experience for his current job as chaplain to the London Ambulance Service.
Cambridge Monday 
Over Wednesday
Over Saturday
Overcote Love
Mike & Kate
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