12th April 2009.
Dear All,
Happy Easter to all readers, it was a bit gloomy at the “Sunrise Service” at 6 am this morning but at least not snowing like last year.
My old boss, Tom Webster is currently down from Scotland and came to dinner with his hosts Jock and Molly on Friday. He is still keeping remarkably well for 84 and although he does not go out with the Oban Mountaineering Club so regularly he still celebrates his birthday on top of the Cobbler each year.
We have signed up for the U3A Ramblers week in the Yorkshire Dales in June, so I went to the briefing session on Thursday. As you would expect from our ex Lieutenant Colonel leader it was presented on military lines will little left to chance! We are staying at Malham and doing 5 walks including a couple we have done before at Bolton Abbey and Buckden
Our ramble this week was our first instalment of the Icknield Way from Ivinghoe Beacon to Wingfield. The visibility was not as clear as you would like from the top of the Downs but it was still a good walk. The plan is to get to Thetford in 11 sections but not one after the other.
view from Downs
Dear All,
Happy Easter to all readers, it was a bit gloomy at the “Sunrise Service” at 6 am this morning but at least not snowing like last year.
My old boss, Tom Webster is currently down from Scotland and came to dinner with his hosts Jock and Molly on Friday. He is still keeping remarkably well for 84 and although he does not go out with the Oban Mountaineering Club so regularly he still celebrates his birthday on top of the Cobbler each year.
We have signed up for the U3A Ramblers week in the Yorkshire Dales in June, so I went to the briefing session on Thursday. As you would expect from our ex Lieutenant Colonel leader it was presented on military lines will little left to chance! We are staying at Malham and doing 5 walks including a couple we have done before at Bolton Abbey and Buckden
Our ramble this week was our first instalment of the Icknield Way from Ivinghoe Beacon to Wingfield. The visibility was not as clear as you would like from the top of the Downs but it was still a good walk. The plan is to get to Thetford in 11 sections but not one after the other.
view from Downs
The Plough, Wingfield
Plenty of gardening this week planting out cabbage, cauliflowers and lettuce. Sowing calabrese, French beans, beetroot, peas, water melons and corn salad and pricking out flower seeds. Sowing and planting are the easy bits these days, the hard work is keeping all the pests at bay especially pigeons which are getting bigger and bolder.
I spoke at another Garden Club, this time at Kedington near Haverhill – a friendly bunch with plenty of questions.
I borrowed Ray’s season tickets for Cambridge Utd yesterday and took Adrian to watch them play Eastbourne. Cambridge won but did not play like a team 2nd in the league.
I finished “Eight Feet in the Andes” by Dervla Murphy this week. If you like travel books I can recommend it. She must be a tough old bird; she walked 1,200 miles through the Andes to Cuzco following the Conquistador’s route with her 9 year old daughter and a mule.
As it is Kate’s brothers 50th birthday next weekend we are due to be in Derbyshire joining/organising? celebrations.
The magnolias in the 3 neighbouring Willingham Road gardens have looked splendid this year escaping frost and wind damage.
Magnolias
Plenty of gardening this week planting out cabbage, cauliflowers and lettuce. Sowing calabrese, French beans, beetroot, peas, water melons and corn salad and pricking out flower seeds. Sowing and planting are the easy bits these days, the hard work is keeping all the pests at bay especially pigeons which are getting bigger and bolder.
I spoke at another Garden Club, this time at Kedington near Haverhill – a friendly bunch with plenty of questions.
I borrowed Ray’s season tickets for Cambridge Utd yesterday and took Adrian to watch them play Eastbourne. Cambridge won but did not play like a team 2nd in the league.
I finished “Eight Feet in the Andes” by Dervla Murphy this week. If you like travel books I can recommend it. She must be a tough old bird; she walked 1,200 miles through the Andes to Cuzco following the Conquistador’s route with her 9 year old daughter and a mule.
As it is Kate’s brothers 50th birthday next weekend we are due to be in Derbyshire joining/organising? celebrations.
The magnolias in the 3 neighbouring Willingham Road gardens have looked splendid this year escaping frost and wind damage.
Magnolias
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Sunrise service
Love
Mike & Kate
Love
Mike & Kate
1 comment:
Good Easter to you. Here in the United States it was threatening rain, but it has held off. It is now 5:10 p.m. and we've had just a few sprinkles.
We had a sunrise service - inside, then breakfast, Sunday School and then the regular church service. If Easter had been in March this year, we would have had snow!
We haven't been able to plant yet. We keep on getting freezes and then we've been getting a lot of rain.
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