9th December 2012

9th December 2012.

Dear All,

It has been a family week as it was our turn to baby mind on Wednesday and then the plan was to help Esther to look after Amélie on Friday and Saturday while Mary-Ann and Andy attended a Festival. However Mary-Ann was not well and eventually stayed at Esther’s as well. Amélie was also below par teething and uncertain tummy so the best laid plans.......

On Wednesday we visited the park at Petworth House in Sussex (the house was closed). It is a large park with some very old trees. The weather was bracing having woken up to a “white over” that morning with the first snow of the winter.

 

    

Petworth Park

Thursday was busy with the walk starting at Shepreth taking in Fowlmere, Melbourn and Meldreth. I had another scan in the afternoon (no results yet) and a Garden Club talk in the evening- also at Fowlmere. They had Bob Flowerdew the previous month (the last time I followed him he was paid 15 times what I was! – they wouldn’t reveal what he received this time but had declined Monty Don as he wanted £5,000)

When we returned from the walk we discovered a considerable mess as a set of shelves had come loose in the dining room dumping a serious number of CDs, DVDs and cassettes onto the floor.

    Melbourn

                                                                 near Shepreth

The biography this week was “Iris Murdoch” whose life story hardly matched the pure surroundings of our venue at the Friends Meeting House!

We have heard from both Marie Benedix and Bernarda Milnoviae from Croatia this week. Some of you might remember either or both of them. Marie from Sweden stayed with us while working as a student at NIAB and also with M & G for a while. She is now in Denver, Colorado working as a marketing consultant. Bernarda also worked at NIAB for a while and we met up with her and Drazan when we visited Croatia. They moved to Canada for a while but are now back in Zagreb.

Marie & Trevor

Love

Mike & Kate