19th September 2010.
Dear All,
On Monday our college garden group were addressed by a man from the Cambridge City Parks Dept. They look after 80 open spaces in the city totalling over 500 acres including 45,000 trees and spend £45,000 a year on bedding plants. You can graze a cow on their common lands for £42 per year and they provide a pinder to look after the cattle.
Dear All,
On Monday our college garden group were addressed by a man from the Cambridge City Parks Dept. They look after 80 open spaces in the city totalling over 500 acres including 45,000 trees and spend £45,000 a year on bedding plants. You can graze a cow on their common lands for £42 per year and they provide a pinder to look after the cattle.
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Jesus Green, Cambridge We were grading set onions all day Tuesday wearing a mask in a cloud of dust. Church groups resumed in the evening after the summer break.
I had a call from Jane Ryall midweek, she used to work at NIAB and Kate and I stayed with her parents in Northern Island for our 25th wedding anniversary. She is back home having donated a kidney to her elder brother John. It is the third he has received and the previous donations are still in place so he now has five kidneys!
This weeks walk began at Walkern in Hertfordshire and was a circular via Benington – beautiful village, and Burns Green.
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Benington Friday was cricket pitch winter maintenance day which is a major operation involving a scarifier, aerator, reseeder, soil barrow and levelling lute.
Saturday Kate and I returned Geoff and Doreen Barnes to Fressingfield beyond Diss. It is an interesting village with some fine old buildings and a chapel shaped like a coffin – to remind man of his mortality! There is also a large organic agricultural and forestry project which I had heard about and we went to have a look at that as well.
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Wakelyns Agroforestry
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Back of the Dog & Fox, Fressingfield
Love
Mike & Kate
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