Dear All,
Back to normal this week with the U3A classes resuming and plenty of other meetings as well, culminating with the annual church social on Saturday night. Kate again masterminded the 4 course meal for 45 with military precision: plan, experiment, forage, assemble, cook, present. I did a Power point “Review of the Year” covering chapel, national and international events. This has become easier with the quality of photos available on the net, but the tendency is to produce a longer presentation – still nobody left or died during the event!
“Cambridge Past, Present and Future” resumed with a talk from local historian Mike Petty on Elizabethan (2nd) Cambridge. He has immense knowledge but dislikes modern technology so does not always put it over as well as possible.
In “Astronomy” we studied “Eclipses”; this was sandwiched between work and an evening planning church events for the year. I checked out our leek trial in the middle of the fens in the afternoon. This site is 2.3 miles from the road and as the farmer was harvesting the next field resembled the Somme with churned up black mud on a freezing cold day.
On Wednesday we had a Veg Panel meeting at Wisley checking Spring cabbage and tasting stored Winter Squash. Sampling 20 varieties of squash starts off OK but becomes a test of stamina.
RHS Vegetable Trials Panel
Squash Judging
I managed to watch Ipswich 1 v 0 Arsenal (shades of 1978 Cup Final?) but am not holding my breath for the 2nd leg!
Our Thursday walk started at Croydon near Wimpole Hall and visited Shingay and East Hatley. It was very sticky under foot and consequently hard work. I wrote the Garden Column in the evening.
Outside Croydon
The garden is wetter than it has been all winter so activity has been restricted to moving fruit to an area where the new cage is planned to cover everything and sawing up some logs.
love
Mike & Kate
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