5th January 2014.

Dear All,

A Happy New Year to all our reader(s). Mary-Ann and Amélie stayed over until Monday so we took them to “Whale of a Time” the soft play area at Bar Hill and afterwards used the extra pairs of hands to help? start sorting the 2000 odd packets of seed donated by Suttons for Moldova. They left at 6.30pm so that Amélie would sleep in the car – and it worked.

We were invited to see in the New Year with John and Sally Lane in the new Eco house up the road. They are still getting used to temperature control but otherwise seem very happy with their new surroundings.

63 Willingham Road

New Years Day was wet and miserable here and I guess most other places so I was working on Powerpoints for the Chapel Social and the Ramblers New year party.

Fortunately Thursday was much better for the walk, but as we were close to the river at Anglesey Abbey for part of the journey, we found plenty of mud. In the afternoon we travelled to Hove to mind Amélie on Friday. Traffic was lighter than usual so we had a reasonable journey.

Near Anglesey Abbey

Friday was rather rough so we caught the bus to Brighton and visited “Waterworld” a pretty decent aquarium.

Brighton Pavillion

Aquarium Exhibit

Restless Sea

Melon eater

In the afternoon the wind was so strong it was difficult to push the pram into it and the sea was fairly spectacular.

We left early on Saturday and called in at Hutton as Esther had a couple of jobs that needed attention.

We were at Haddenham for lunch yesterday hence the delay in completing this letter.

Love

Mike & Kate