24th January 2010.
Dear All,
In years to come the quiz question will be “Which book begins with the words “’I was flossing my teeth on Sunday night when the floss stuck and I yanked it hard – I will hear the sound of the large tooth fragment pinging off the mirror for many days to come”’ Yes another trip to the dentist this week – it is becoming a habit that I am keen to kick!
Our course on College Gardens has been suspended for a month due to the inclement weather which seems a bit of an over reaction so more time available this week. I managed to dig some garden on Monday and it was not as wet as I expected. Bird life has been very active in the garden and this green woodpecker came within a couple of metres of the back door.
Dear All,
In years to come the quiz question will be “Which book begins with the words “’I was flossing my teeth on Sunday night when the floss stuck and I yanked it hard – I will hear the sound of the large tooth fragment pinging off the mirror for many days to come”’ Yes another trip to the dentist this week – it is becoming a habit that I am keen to kick!
Our course on College Gardens has been suspended for a month due to the inclement weather which seems a bit of an over reaction so more time available this week. I managed to dig some garden on Monday and it was not as wet as I expected. Bird life has been very active in the garden and this green woodpecker came within a couple of metres of the back door.
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Green Woodpecker
We had an Events Planning meeting on Monday night so I have been following up various leads since and have booked a tour of Wolfson College Gardens and the RSPB tour of Fen Drayton Pits so far together with Stuart Wood the chaplain to Cambridge Utd.
While it has been too wet to garden or tour college gardens I have been straightening the garage workshop – not too exciting but needed doing otherwise how would I know that I have more than 50 different sizes of nails and screws?
Our walk this week began at Saxon Street near Newmarket and proceeded via Wooditton and Borough Green including a section of Devil’s Dyke.
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Devil’s Dyke
One of our former neighbours Lynne Medlock came for dinner on Friday and my computer man came to try a sort my machine. It had been infected by a fiendish piece of “spyware” which copies the Windows security shield. The pop-up is identical except for having “Windows” on the strap line. It tells you there are various problems which you need to deal with and if you do you downloads things which gradually bind your machine up. It took Keith over an hour to find the problem and even now it is not perfect.
Yesterday Kate and I took a trip to Oundle, which is a stone built town similar to the Cotswolds, but in Northamptonshire. Although it is dominated by the school there are numerous interesting buildings. We followed the town trail and stayed for lunch.
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Oundle School Bookshop
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Oundle War Memorial
In the evening we were guests at the Over Day Centre Volunteers Christmas lunch by dint of having done a fund raising quiz last autumn. The meal was very good and two ladies sitting at out table who did not know each other found out that their brothers had been best men at each others weddings.
Ben has moved into his new flat address: 39 Gleneldon Road, Streatham, London, SW16 ?? (don’t know the rest of the post code yet).
Love
Mike & Kate
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Ben's postcode is SW16 2AX
You can use the Royal Mail Postcode finder when you need to check one.
Glad you were able to prove what a load of numptys tghey are if they can't dig their gardens in the rain.
We've just come back from a week in Anzere in Switzerland. I'm sure a full account will appear in Mary's letter. Lots of snow, some sun and quite a bit of walking. One day when it was foggy up in the mountains we walked along the Bisse de Clavau which we also walked with you when we had that week in Brig with you. It was well worth repeating but quite a different feel in the snow. Happy memories
Graham
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