Sunday, 4 December 2011

4th December 2011

4th December 2011.

Dear All,

On Saturday Kate and I went to the Fitzwilliam Museum to see the two current exhibitions: “Vermeer’s Women – Secrets and Silence” and “Treasures of Vienna”. Not bad and good value as they were both free!



Vermeer, The Lacemaker







Fitzwilliam Museum

Our solar panels are producing electricity but registering them with the power company has proved far from straightforward and needed daily progress chasing phone calls.
We had a meal at Ely in the “Old Fire Engine House” with some of the walkers on Monday – it was very good. Kate had already been out at lunchtime to celebrate a success at work – a project she has been working on for 2 years has been upgraded to “drug discovery”.
The U3A film was “Of Gods and Men” 2010 based on a true story about some French monks in Algeria peacefully co existing with the local Muslims until a gang of militants became active and abducted them. It was well done but 30 mins longer than it needed to be.
Art Appreciation was on Michelangelo and after Kate joined me and we started Christmas shopping.
Walking started in Arkesden and visited Brent Pelham and Clavering, a mere 11 miles.


Clavering
I had lunch with some old NIAB colleagues on Friday and then finished digging in the mustard for green manure.


Digging complete


The Over match was abandoned after 20 mins yesterday as one of their players suffered a very bad broken leg and the ambulance took about 45 mins to arrive.
We have been out to lunch with the Whitfields, opposite today – first time in 40 years!


love


Mike & Kate

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