27^th January 2013.

Dear All,

Dave Garlick has been here today taking both services. He was worried about the weather so came up Saturday evening. In the event the rain and warmer temperatures have seen off all the snow. John Law came to the evening service and stayed for tea with Dave.

We walked round Swavesey Pits on Monday after heavy overnight snow and took a few photos.

Guided bus  

    Swavesey Pits

We have been sent another batch of seeds for Moldova so I have spent some tome sorting them out this week. We have booked our next trip to Moldova this week for the last week of April. Three of us are currently booked in.

I started a new U3A course this week entitled “Science and Religion” This week was about Hinduism.

Our Thursday walk started fairly locally at Conington and was a rather brisk journey to Elsworth, Hilton and Fen Drayton.

Conington 

                                                          Waiting to go

 In the Bleak midwinter  

                                                           Hilton

The “Biography” subject this week was Charlotte Bronte and although the exposition was lengthy it was still interesting as the presenter dwelt a lot on what drove her to do what she did including the suppressed role of women in Victorian times, her not wishing to be a financial burden and the tragedies which meant that all 5 of her siblings died before the age of 31.

Kate had both her feet injected on Friday for her neuroma problem then we drove down to Hutton. I planted the hedge we bought for Esther at Christmas and Kate was finishing curtains.

Esther’s hedge

Love

Mike & Kate