5th June 2011.
Dear All,
It was good to see most of you last week in Cumbria and to have experienced at least one decent rain shower since we returned. Ben had an eventful journey back as all trains were cancelled from Kings Cross due to an overhead line being down, so following the cancelled train going up he was not too impressed with public transport.
The Howgills were an interesting area and a few photos demonstrate this:
Dear All,
It was good to see most of you last week in Cumbria and to have experienced at least one decent rain shower since we returned. Ben had an eventful journey back as all trains were cancelled from Kings Cross due to an overhead line being down, so following the cancelled train going up he was not too impressed with public transport.
The Howgills were an interesting area and a few photos demonstrate this:
Sedbergh
Ruskins view Kirkby Langdale
Ribblehead viaduct
Ribblehead viaduct
Our House
Near Ravenstonedale
Fell End
A lot of serious catching up in the garden since we returned planting squash, courgettes, pumpkins, gourds, leeks, water melons, cabbage, fennel, carrots, radish, lettuce and cauliflowers. Strawberries, peas, broad beans, cabbage and new potatoes all being harvested so a good time to tuck in.
I have been writing reports on Moldova and continuing the Which plant assessment project – just one further batch to come now and huge differences between suppliers.
My car which was dented when Kate parked outside the chapel a couple of weeks ago has been repaired and it looks very good - but so it ought for the money.
Our walk on Thursday turned out to be an epic billed as 9.5 miles but in fact it was 13.8 miles and I was not too frisky afterwards! Our leader claimed to have only gone astray once but had moved the starting venue and not built this into the calculations. The walk was fairly local starting at Stow cum Quy, Teversham, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, Fen Ditton. Amazingly several of the crops we saw looked good even spring sown peas but equally others were awful.
A lot of serious catching up in the garden since we returned planting squash, courgettes, pumpkins, gourds, leeks, water melons, cabbage, fennel, carrots, radish, lettuce and cauliflowers. Strawberries, peas, broad beans, cabbage and new potatoes all being harvested so a good time to tuck in.
I have been writing reports on Moldova and continuing the Which plant assessment project – just one further batch to come now and huge differences between suppliers.
My car which was dented when Kate parked outside the chapel a couple of weeks ago has been repaired and it looks very good - but so it ought for the money.
Our walk on Thursday turned out to be an epic billed as 9.5 miles but in fact it was 13.8 miles and I was not too frisky afterwards! Our leader claimed to have only gone astray once but had moved the starting venue and not built this into the calculations. The walk was fairly local starting at Stow cum Quy, Teversham, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, Fen Ditton. Amazingly several of the crops we saw looked good even spring sown peas but equally others were awful.
Lepers Chapel, Newmarket Road, Cambridge
I played a friendly 20:20 match yesterday and got a wicket first ball and amassed 12 not out! Kate and I were invited to a BBQ afterwards at John and Sally Lane’s with Les Cook our local farmer and stock breeder who had just won reserve champion with a Hereford bull at the Suffolk Show. He says he has not enough grass to even contemplate cutting any hay so far.
love
Mike & Kate
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