6th July 2009.
Dear All,
Too busy to write yesterday: entertaining, open garden and services. Geoff and Doreen Barnes, late of this parish – or at least nearby Rampton, are staying in Cottenham for a week, having moved to Fressingfield, Suffolk a few years ago. They came for lunch together with John and Pat Law, as all of their church had gone for an away weekend. The open gardens event was deliberately low key to see how it worked, there were only 3 gardens on offer, but it was enjoyable. Clashing with the Wimbledon men’s final meant that numbers were not overwhelming but it ensured that the garden is more weed free than usual at this time of year.
Kate is feeding cells at weekends again so she had a long day.
I was at Wisley on Monday, the temperature reached 31°C on the M25 – thank heavens for air conditioning! We were judging mange tout and sugar peas and cucumbers.
Dear All,
Too busy to write yesterday: entertaining, open garden and services. Geoff and Doreen Barnes, late of this parish – or at least nearby Rampton, are staying in Cottenham for a week, having moved to Fressingfield, Suffolk a few years ago. They came for lunch together with John and Pat Law, as all of their church had gone for an away weekend. The open gardens event was deliberately low key to see how it worked, there were only 3 gardens on offer, but it was enjoyable. Clashing with the Wimbledon men’s final meant that numbers were not overwhelming but it ensured that the garden is more weed free than usual at this time of year.
Kate is feeding cells at weekends again so she had a long day.
I was at Wisley on Monday, the temperature reached 31°C on the M25 – thank heavens for air conditioning! We were judging mange tout and sugar peas and cucumbers.
Sugar Pea Assessment
Cucumber trial
Delphinium trial
Wisley Dry Garden
Wisley Rockery
Two exciting cricket matches this week, on Wednesday the chapel team beat Elsworth by one wicket and on Saturday Over IIIs lost to Little Thetford by one wicket. I scored 28 in the latter and was twice as old as the next oldest in the team.
Icknield Way section 7 took us from Linton to Borough Green via Great Chesterford on Thursday, again it was very hot but fortunately not too demanding
Love
Mike & Kate
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