Dear All,
On Monday I started a three session repair and capping of a broken
tooth which will cost more than I earn in 12 months of Garden Club talks –
clearly in the wrong business.
Tuesday was a longish day as we had “Just Vegetating” in the
morning, this week was “Legumes”. This was followed by a U3A viewing of “Oh
What a Lovely War” then an evening Garden Club at Shelford and a drive down to
Hove. This proved to be a troublesome exercise as the A23 was closed for road works
and the diversion took in Horsham and Worthing. An accident lengthened this
further so we arrived about 12.15am – an hour longer than normal.
On Wednesday we took the bus to Preston Park, Brighton which apart
from being a pleasant open space with an allotment, sports pitches and play
park also claims to have the oldest rockery in the country. (I did not take my camera so these pics are
from the web)
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Preston Park
We then visited “Booths Natural History Museum”. This is a huge
collection of stuffed birds, animals and skeletons by a Victorian who showed
his passion for wild life by slaughtering a large percentage of it before
having it stuffed and mounted! Exhibits included a Dodo skeleton. Having no
descendants Mr Booth gave the collection to the city and it is free admission.
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Booth Natural History Museum
Amélie said “I’ve been here before” which we dismissed rather
lightly – but it turned out she had already visited with M-A and Andy and was
keen to demonstrate her expertise with a projecting microscope to another
child.
The walk on Thursday was local starting at Coton and taking in
Madingley, Dry Drayton and Hardwick. The pub was a bit stuffy and expensive
wanting pre-booking so most people opted out – we went to the nearby Garden
Centre. This was a bit awkward for our leaders as the pub expected 30 or so
clients and only 8 stayed.
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Coton
The “Biography” topic this week was “Basil Bunting” a modernist poet
with a gift for trouble ending up in gaol in three different countries.
Yesterday it was November’s “Messy Church” – not so many this month –
it is very unpredictable, but went OK. We then drove down to Hornchurch to hear
Esther and Havering Singers in concert performing: “The Song of Destiny” by
Brahms, “The Song of the Fleet” by Stanford and “St Celia’s Mass” by Gounod.
They all sang very well but it is a tad highbrow for me! We stayed the night in
Hutton so have just returned.
Havering Singers
Love
Mike & Kate
1 comment:
Just like the Harrow Choir - they put the young ones in the front row.!
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