30th March 2014

30th March 2014.

Dear All,

This has been a “Hove Week” and as U3A classes have finished for Easter we left fairly early on Tuesday and had a good run down and were able to pick up Mary-Ann from work and Amélie from nursery.

On Wednesday we visited the Lancing College chapel – a very imposing building, then went on to Coombe Valley Farm to see new born lambs and calves. The farm has hundreds of sheep as well as a herd of Sussex cattle. As they charge £4 entrance fee and £2.50 if you want a tractor and trailer ride round the farm I believe they are probably making more from the public than the livestock. However Amélie approved as she got to stroke lambs and feed them hay - which they may not have wanted.

Lancing College Chapel

Sussex Cattle

A few Sheep

Would be Shepherd?

Woolly Matress

Feeding Time

Devils Dyke

Afterwards we drove up to Devils Dyke on the top of the Downs for a walk with splendid views.

Our Thursday walk started at Elton near Peterborough and took in Fotheringhay where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned and finally beheaded and Richard III was born. The houses are most stone built and similar to the Cotswolds.

Elton Mill

Elton Village

Otherwise it has been mostly gardening – planting maincrop spuds, preparing the runner bean trench etc. and starting cricket pitch attention.

We were invited out to lunch with neighbours (the Twiss’s) opposite yesterday and then I watched Over put in a nervous performance having gone back to the top of the league, equalising in the last minute to draw 3 v 3 with Cambridge City Reserves.

Ben heading for the line in the Brentwood half Marathon

Finishing 315th out of 2425

love

Mike & Kate