22nd August 2010.
Dear All,
It was our annual chapel outing to the seaside yesterday, this time returning to Hunstanton. It was dull when we arrived but we hire a church hall close to the front as a base for coffee and lunch and it did not actually rain. It is a tradition to walk along the front in the morning, have a fish and chip lunch and then the men have a pitch and putt competition in the afternoon, - and this year was traditional! The sun came out briefly in the afternoon and it was fairly breezy. On the way home there was a tremendous downpour – the sort where the wipers cannot keep up and the road is completely covered with water. This lasted 15 minutes and by the time we reached Kings Lynn there had been no rain and the sun was out.
Kate and Gordon hosted a BBQ at Sutton on the way home; extra folk joined us and that went very well.
Dear All,
It was our annual chapel outing to the seaside yesterday, this time returning to Hunstanton. It was dull when we arrived but we hire a church hall close to the front as a base for coffee and lunch and it did not actually rain. It is a tradition to walk along the front in the morning, have a fish and chip lunch and then the men have a pitch and putt competition in the afternoon, - and this year was traditional! The sun came out briefly in the afternoon and it was fairly breezy. On the way home there was a tremendous downpour – the sort where the wipers cannot keep up and the road is completely covered with water. This lasted 15 minutes and by the time we reached Kings Lynn there had been no rain and the sun was out.
Kate and Gordon hosted a BBQ at Sutton on the way home; extra folk joined us and that went very well.
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Not so Sunny Hunny!
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BBQ at Sutton The cricket pitch has miraculously changed from brown to green in the last fortnight and the contractors have attempted to fill the drainage channels on the Green for the 5th time. This has meant rolling the whole field yet again.
We held a courgette open day at NIAB on Wednesday and managed to coincide with a damp morning, but it suited the plants.
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Courgette puntersOur walk on Thursday started in Ridgewell south of Haverhill and was a circuit including Stambourne and Great Yeldham. These are all places that I have driven through many times between Cambridge and Beaumont but not stopped to explore.
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Near Stambourne The college visit was to Trinity Hall, another very old establishment with some attractive buildings and on Tuesday 10 of us braved the weather to watch the Shakespeare in the open air. This time it was “As You Like It” at Trinity College (not Hall) and there was a decent crowd despite rain just before the performance. The actors did remarkably well rolling round on damp grass and carrying on regardless.
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Trinity Hall
Love
Mike & Kate
1 comment:
You should try moving Cambridge closer to Beaumont. The weather there is much drier. We had a couple of days staying with Charlie and Danny at Dave and Jen's. They couldn't get over - the number of toys, the beach at Frinton, riding the tractor, playing hide and seek in the garden, to name but a few pastimes. All very well worth doing, but hardly relaxing.
Graham and Mary
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