29th August 2010

29th August 2010.

Dear All,

I had another exciting day at the Test Match yesterday at Lords. At Trent Bridge I saw 15 wickets in a day and yesterday 17 wickets and the end of a world record Test 8th wicket stand of 332 runs. We also managed 7.5 hours without weather interruption which was a bonus for last week.

Lords Cricket Ground

On Tuesday we held another NIAB open day near Bures this time demonstrating this years array of onion varieties in situ before harvest. It did rain a few times but not too seriously and we had a decent crowd of 50 or so.


Onions at Bures

We have had a few problems with storage of items donated for Moldova, so had decided not to plan a lorry this year but a school in St Neots cleared out about 50 tables in reasonable order so they have been in temporary storage at Eaton Socon on the A1. This space is now needed so we had to clear them out but fortunately found some space at the farm in Willingham where I gave a talk on their farm open day last month. On Wednesday we hired a truck and moved them over.

In over 2 years we have only had one Thursday walk where it has rained throughout and that was when Kate joined us for a local walk round Willingham Fen. Well now we have had two as this weeks stroll from Brandon to Thetford was wet for the duration. Ironically Kate had planned to join us but hearing the rain drops in the night decided that it would be more fun to go to work!

Santon Downham in Thetford Forest



Little Ouse near Thetford

The garden continues to perform well with buckets of beans, bowls full of tomatoes, plenty of blackberries and raspberries and sweet corn also in full stream.

No news from Ben in Africa but he is hopefully back this week.

Love

Mike & Kate