Dear All,
A few presentations this week: Kate gave a talk on “Smallpox in
Bleak House” to the Dickens Society for which she has received generous
accolades. I had a Garden Club appointment at Benington, near Stevenage on
Wednesday then a “Rambling Year” presentation at the U3A Ramblers New Year
Social on Friday.
On Monday I had a glimpse of why the NHS is not always as efficient
as it should be. I was called back to see the specialist who looked at my lung
scan results last August expecting another scan. However, when I eventually got
to see him after the statutory 45 minutes wait he said: “I don’t know why they
have called you in – I don’t want to see you again for 12 months!”
This week saw the start of the new U3A term and I have swapped “Just
Vegetating” for “Eat, Drink and Be Healthy” which examines all the spurious
claims of the food and medical industries. The first book on the reading list
is “Bad Science” by Ben Goldacre. Later I joined some ex NIAB “wrinklies” for
lunch while Kate went to the U3A film “The Godfather II!
Kate achieved another target on Wednesday by getting a walking boot
on her recovering foot. We walked round the village OK but it was throbbing a
bit afterwards.
The Thursday walk did not go according to plan. I arrived at
Haddenham with my passenger June from Willingham, when she had a call from her
son who has a Personality Disorder. He lives on a barge at Ely and frequently
phones for up to 3 hours at a time to berate her about things. In the end I had
to take her home in tears. He isn’t getting any better and she is not getting
much help, the situation is worse because her husband is working in Bristol all
week.
I didn’t get back to Haddenham until 11.30 but managed a short solo
walk round the fen to Aldreth.
Aldreth Drove
“Biographies” this week was “Dickens part 2” delivered by a lady speaking
at ninety miles per hour as a literature review rather than a biography.
Gardening muscles were stretched a little this week buying seed
potatoes, onion, garlic and shallot sets and sowing peas and beans in modules
in the greenhouse.
It was “Messy Church” again yesterday. Kate was IC food and I was in
charge of making “Cress men”.
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Messy Church
Love
Mike & Kate
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