Dear All,
Yesterday Kate and I attended the “Winter Festival” at Mill Road,
Cambridge at the invitation of David and Angela Miles-Dinham who live in the
next street. David is leader of the U3A “Biographies” group and Angela attends
“Just Vegetating”. Mill Road is as near
as we get to a diverse ethnic area in Cambridge, even if it does not come
anywhere near to Streatham or North Harrow! The street was closed off for a
parade and there were dozens of food offerings from around the planet together
with choirs singing and Morris dancing. My main interest was to record the
foreign vegetable displays in the various greengrocers – a mini Chinatown.
This was a bit late for “Just Vegetating” which this week covered
“Oriental Vegetables” but I expect it will come in.
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Mill Road
The U3A film this week was “A Journey to Italy” starring Ingrid
Bergman and directed by Rosselini. It is claimed to be a classic of its time –
but a bit slow moving. In the evening our home group had a meal out at “The
Golden Ball”, Boxworth. John Lee was asking me all about my sister – I think
you scored a hit Mary!
We made our initial attempt at Christmas shopping on Wednesday – a
slightly over rated pastime but not too bad if you concentrate on the children.
On Thursday we reccied a walk from Perry on Graffham Water – not
round the reservoir but inland. It was rather muddy but not too bad.
Mystery Construction on the Walk
On Friday it was my turn to present at “Biographies”. I chose
“Daniel Defoe” and as usual you start off thinking “how can I fill the time”
and end up trying to cram it all in as there was much more to DD than writing
Robinson Crusoe.
• Trader,
Manufacturer, Rebel, Satirist, Poet, Journalist, Pamphleteer and Spy
• Famous
for: Robinson Crusoe, first novelist? Father of modern journalism?
• Imprisoned
x3, In Pillory
• Wrote
more than 500 books, pamphlets & journals
• Used
at least 198 Pen Names
He only turned to writing novels when he was nearly 60 and they were
all written in a 6 year period. Ask me more when you see me as I could bore you
for several minutes.
Daniel Defoe & the Pillory
My children will remember Brian Tyrell – he phoned on Friday having
been in hospital for 8 weeks. He had a Pseudomonas infection on his knee and
almost lost a leg.
Love
Mike & Kate
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