2nd November 2014

2^nd November 2014.

Dear All,

Dave and Jen called on Monday on their way to Jackie’s in Derby. They had time for a walk round the Swavesey Pits and lunch. It was good to catch up with them as well as Essex news from the UKIP heartland!

 Swavesey Pits

It was “Salads – Roots, Shoots and Leaves” at “Just Vegetating” this week with a decent audience despite several on half term grandparent duties. Half term doesn’t improve transport however with all the buses heaving.

The film this week was “The Innocents” described as “a sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story” based on Henry James “Turn of the Screw”. It was OK if you like that sort of thing!

My football watching mate Dave Harrower went for a check up recently and ended up with a triple by-pass operation. I went to visit him on Wednesday and he is still in a slight state of shock with some impressive scars. He is an avid Arsene Wenger hating, Arsenal supporter, so will have to be kept away from TV matches for fear of raising his blood pressure!

Half term also messes up the swimming timetable so we had to go in the evening on Wednesday with Merv and Glynis. Glynis’s husband Richard has just begun chemotherapy for colon cancer – that makes five of our friends being treated for cancer at present.

The Thursday walk began at Great Chesterford near Kate’s erstwhile place of employment. It was sunny and undulating so what more could you ask – except for quicker service at the pub which broke some kind of sluggish service record.

 Great Chesterford

The biography this week was “George Muller of Bristol” famed for starting the orphanages and never asking for money. We showed the DVD at chapel recently so the story was fairly familiar.

Plenty of digging in of recently delivered muck this week – and still plenty to do. Runner beans were finally pulled up on the 1^st November which must be a record.

I went to watch Godmanchester Rovers v Yaxley in the FA Vase yesterday as Over did not have a match and Godmanchester had signed Over’s two best strikers in the close season.

Love

Mike & Kate