Dear All,
Tom Webster is currently down from Scotland so I have had three outings with him this week. He is 88 and now on his 3rd artificial leg. He walks for 2 hours every day and with his latest leg is able to climb and descend hills. His target is to reach the summit of The Cobbler for his 90th birthday in August 2013.
He accompanied me for my talk on Costa Rica to the St Neots Aviculture meeting on Tuesday and to Horringer near Bury St Edmunds for a Garden Club on Wednesday. Kate joined us for a visit to Saham Toney near Watton in Norfolk on Friday to visit an old NIAB colleague Bill Chowings who has recently moved there from Swavesey.
Bill, Kate, Joyce & Tom
We now have Geoff Barnes staying for the weekend. His wife Doreen has Parkinsons and was due to have a couple of weeks respite care in Finborough Hall but was taken to Ipswich Hospital with complications.
The cricket club motor roller is rather ancient and sprang an oil leak when some of the lads were rolling the outfield. When it was taken apart (with difficulty) it was found that a hydraulic ram had split – not the rubber gasket but the metal sleeve. The mechanic said he had never seen this before in 30 years. We marked the square out yesterday so it is that time of year again.
Our Thursday walk began at Chippenham near Newmarket and touched on Red Lodge, Horringer and Kennet. The woods were full of Mahonia and the field full of free range pigs. We had just completed it in good weather when the heavens opened for a violent hail storm.
Mahonia
Free range pigs
Plenty of gardening this week planting out lettuce and cabbage, sowing parsnips, Scorzonera, land cress and digging in the sprout land.
We hope to visit Godalming for 2 or 3 days from tomorrow.
love
Mike & Kate
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