5^th October 2014.

Dear All,

Monday was cricket square maintenance day: cut, scarify x4, fertilizer, seed, 10 bags of Ongar loam on each strip. It is quite hard work but fortunately it started to rain as soon as we finished so the seed has a good start.

Kate and I had to go into Cambridge on Tuesday morning to check out the new venue for our U3A course which starts this week. We had visited before but checked the wrong room in the Friends Meeting House. In the afternoon we drove down to Hove in time to pick up Mary-Ann from work and Amélie from nursery.

On Wednesday we explored Lancing, Worthing and Cissbury Ring. There is actually sand on the beach at Lancing and Worthing had an upmarket children’s playground and a respectable pier. Cissbury Ring is one of the largest ancient hill forts in the country.

Lancing

Worthing Playground

Worthing Dome

End of the Pier

Cissbury Ring (tricky shot!)

Feeling the Chill

We completed the 5^th leg of the “Lea Valley” walk on Thursday from Broxbourne to Tottenham Hale. It was close to the river all the way but lengthy at 12.5 miles. There was an interesting array of house boats and a lot of countryside amongst the industrial buildings.

Lea Valley

I started winter digging this week and it was incredibly dry. Yesterday’s rain was very welcome.

We started our homegrown water melon this week – evidence:

Kate attended a wedding of one of our “mature” walking ladies who met her new husband on-line.

I watched Over beat local rivals Cottenham 7 v 0 on a very greasy surface.

Love

Mike & Kate