9th March 2014.

Dear All,

We were on duty in Hove on Wednesday but Tuesday was complicated by having a Garden Club talk at Blunham near Sandy which did not finish until 9 pm. We thought it would be an easy adaption to take the A1 instead of the M11 but unfortunately the A1 was closed for a couple of junctions for repairs so we had to divert to the M1 and eventually arrived at 11.45 pm. However we had a very enjoyable day on Wednesday visiting an open farm near Lewes with lambs, calves, llamas, pigs and a multitude of chicken breeds as well as a bale play area. In the afternoon we explored Lewes castle which pleased Amélie as she especially enjoys climbing steps at present.

Lamb Feeding

Headless Chicken?

Pig Feeding

Bale Jumping

Lewes Castle

We studied “Health Foods” in the Tuesday course and “Inigo Jones” in Biographies on Friday. Inigo was a self taught, pioneer architect before Christopher Wren and some of his buildings e.g. The Queens House at Greenwich still survive.

Our walk on Thursday started at Toppesfield near Haverill and was much less muddy than of late.

Boggy Patch

The Land Time Forgot

It has been good to see some sunshine this week and begin a little gardening mainly grass cutting, digging and weeding.

We have both been fighting a nasty coughing virus all week but have hopefully seen off the worst of the symptoms.

The Day Centre Quiz last week raised a record £545 which made it all worthwhile.

Love

Mike & Kate