Dear All,
Serious decorating began this week as the last room with wallpaper
came under Kate’s eagle eye. The wallpaper strips easily but there is a layer
of sticky glue/paint that has be scrubbed off inch by inch.
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Ben’s Old Room
It was Hilda’s funeral Thursday afternoon so we did not go on the
usual long walk with the mob, but did our own thing from Newnham to Granchester
along the river, tea with Jeffrey Archer, then back to Newnham (one of those
statements is incorrect!). It was mainly sunny and not too muddy. The funeral
was quite well attended for a 99 year old, with the highlight being a poem
composed and read by a teenage great granddaughter.
The Cam at Newnham
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Granchester Meadows
“Italian Cities” studied “Venice part 2” mainly the islands of which
there are 118! and “Biographies” was a learned discourse on “Christiaan Huygens”
a Dutch scientist who discovered the rings of Saturn, discovered Titan and Orion,
wrote major works on gravity and energy, described the shape of the earth,
accurately produced formulae for pendulums, invented the magic lantern and
developed accurate theories of probability and yet is largely unknown in the UK
who laud Newton who was operating in the same fields at the same time.
Murano
Burano
The germination cabinet seems to be working so I have several lots of
seed underway.
My next Garden Club talk is on “Cuba” so I have been mugging up on
that as my knowledge is a bit rusty.
We had our first brief settling snowstorm yesterday but it soon
turned to rain. Three of us travelled to Godmanchester for football only to
discover it had been cancelled.
We are off to St Neots tonight for the annual CEEM (Moldova)
rededication service.
Love
Mike & Kate
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