5th April 2015

5^th April 2015.

Dear All,

Happy Easter to all readers!

Monday was a busy day as we were Spring Cleaning at the chapel which involved obtaining a scaffold tower so that we could change and clean all the fluorescent tubes in the school room as well as multiple cob web removal, window washing, dusting, polishing, drawer rummaging etc, However there was a good turn out and although not quite finished to everyone’s satisfaction a great deal of progress was made.

In the afternoon I had to go to Addenbrookes for the result of my lung scan and as the lesion had not changed I was thankfully discharged.

In the evening we had the annual chapel 10 Pin Bowling and meal jaunt to Pidley. It is always well attended: 24 bowling and another 6 eating. I believe I came 2^nd on aggregate but importantly beat Gordon by one point!

On Tuesday Mervyn helped me refelt the shed roof at the bottom of the garden as it had been damaged in the high winds at the weekend then we departed for Hove picking up Mary-Ann from work and Amélie from Nursery.

We visited Borde Hill Gardens near Haywards Heath on Wednesday which are famous for their specimen Magnolia trees as well as Camelias and few other spring flowering trees. As they also had a craft tent and a decent playground Amélie was happy – although the stones in the car park were the main attraction for her.

Borde Hill House

  

I managed the long walk on Thursday which began at Cottered and took in Throcking and Buntingford. It was sticky after overnight rain so quite hard work. Kate did the short walk – which actually took longer due to some interesting leading. She has been exercising and had an assessment with a physio.

Tannis Court near Cottered

All roads lead to Cottered

I became the proud custodian of an allotment this week to compensate for the loss of next doors garden. It is in reasonable condition but obviously not quite so handy at the chapel cemetery in New Road.

We received another donation of over 700 packets of vegetable seed for Moldova this week which needed sorting and cataloguing.

The chapel laptop has been playing up this week so many happy? Hours have been spent trying to sort it out – so far with only limited success.

We managed to plant potatoes in what was until recently part of the lawn yesterday and in the evening attended the party for Tom Colquhoun’s wedding at Cottenham.

Love

Mike & Kate