20th November 2011.
Dear All,
Highlight of the week was appearing at the “Carrot & Onion Conference” dinner at Peterborough on Wednesday night to present the NIAB Variety cup to a carrot breeder. The trophy is awarded to a variety that has impressed during the previous 12 months and covers all crops. Vegetable varieties have only been successful 3 times before in 25 years and this was the first carrot to triumph! Eskimo (the carrot) won because has the ability to be stored in the open ground for a long time without costly polythene and straw protection. I managed to work in a couple of Eskimo jokes and met a lot of people I know most of whom were cheerful due to an hours free bar!
Scaffold arrived on Wednesday for our solar panel instillation but the panels were postponed until next week. It did give me the chance to clear much of the moss off the roof which seemed to be much higher than I remember!
On Friday we had the cavity wall in the old part of the house filled which cost £99 due to a generous Government grant for pensioners – not right really is it?
Dear All,
Highlight of the week was appearing at the “Carrot & Onion Conference” dinner at Peterborough on Wednesday night to present the NIAB Variety cup to a carrot breeder. The trophy is awarded to a variety that has impressed during the previous 12 months and covers all crops. Vegetable varieties have only been successful 3 times before in 25 years and this was the first carrot to triumph! Eskimo (the carrot) won because has the ability to be stored in the open ground for a long time without costly polythene and straw protection. I managed to work in a couple of Eskimo jokes and met a lot of people I know most of whom were cheerful due to an hours free bar!
Scaffold arrived on Wednesday for our solar panel instillation but the panels were postponed until next week. It did give me the chance to clear much of the moss off the roof which seemed to be much higher than I remember!
On Friday we had the cavity wall in the old part of the house filled which cost £99 due to a generous Government grant for pensioners – not right really is it?
Cavity Wall filling
The Garden Which book reviews were published this week (December issue) and I have received the draft for the “email plants” write up for January.
I have been swimming, walking and digging this week to stay grounded as we have a difficult problem to deal with at church.
The Thursday walk started at Ousden south of Newmarket and was very much in racing stud territory. Rich sheiks have brought up farms and built copy cat stud farms in the area.
Stud farm
Woods near Ouseden
The internet has been playing up this week but is now hopefully fixed by our Bulgarian friend – some instructions do come up in Russian but it works!
We had a church “Awayday” at St Neots yesterday led by Mike Kendall the local pastor and called in at the starling murmeration again on the way home.
St Neots Awayday
Our Nerines always flower very late, this year they have avoided frost so far and are this weeks star plant!
love
Mike & Kate
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