Dear All,
It has been slightly warmer this week so I have started a bit of gardening: digging after carrots, parsnips and celeriac, pruning autumn raspberries, planting onion sets and sowing cabbage, cauliflowers, broad beans, peas, beetroot and cut ‘n come again salads in the glasshouse.
I have been to work a couple of days as we held a leek open day in the middle of the fens on Wednesday. The site was in the middle of nowhere but over 50 visitors managed to find it, and as it happened Wednesday was the best weather of the week.
Leek Open Day at StrethamOn Tuesday we lifted the leeks in the morning when it was rather chilly then I had a group of organic growers from Devon to entertain. In the evening I was at Houghton and Wyton Gardening club. I was a bit late due to the Devon group being fairly garrulous and the gardeners were all sitting relaxed with glasses of wine- no two clubs are the same.
On Monday our U3A group had a visit to Donarbon the waste recycling centre for Cambridgeshire. Since I was there about 2 years ago they have invested £42m on an automatic sorting system for black bins. This removes magnetic metals, other metals and plastics automatically and then grinds up and composts the remainder in a 200m enclosed bay that is continuously moved for 7 weeks to remove methane before being put into landfill. They also compost green waste outdoors in the same way as David and food waste in enclosed high temperature units, both of which produce useable green compost. In addition, they have wood and building site recycling areas and an experimental anaerobic digester. It is all quite impressive but is about to be sold to a Spanish company.
Donarbon sorting unit
Turning green waste
Sculpure from cans & bottles 
Recycled products
Our walk on Thursday started at Baldock and circled via Ashwell, 10.5 miles, hilly and sticky underfoot so quite hard work.
We went to see “The King Speech” on Saturday night and it lived up to its billing despite criticism from Simon Hoggart!
Thanks for communications from Harrow and Beaumont this week. Mary asked about Kate Foster, she is home after the operation and making some progress but has a long way to go. We visited on Friday night and she fell asleep while I was showing her the Dolomites photos – shows how ill she must be!!
Thanks for my birthday card Dave and Jen – it was the only one I had, perhaps because it was a month early!
love
Mike & Kate
Our walk on Thursday started at Baldock and circled via Ashwell, 10.5 miles, hilly and sticky underfoot so quite hard work.
We went to see “The King Speech” on Saturday night and it lived up to its billing despite criticism from Simon Hoggart!
Thanks for communications from Harrow and Beaumont this week. Mary asked about Kate Foster, she is home after the operation and making some progress but has a long way to go. We visited on Friday night and she fell asleep while I was showing her the Dolomites photos – shows how ill she must be!!
Thanks for my birthday card Dave and Jen – it was the only one I had, perhaps because it was a month early!
love
Mike & Kate
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