Dear All,
We were on duty in the “Street Pastors” cafe last night so did not
get to bed until 4.45 am - hence the belated epistle this week. It was a fairly
lively evening in “Nightlife” with numerous hen parties, celebrating students
and general revellers. The usual street folk and intoxicated youths were
augmented by foreign students at language schools to learn English. As several
of these are non drinking Muslims they are a welcome change when they drop in
for a chat to improve their language skills. We had one serious casualty from
South Carolina dripping with blood as he had been beaten up and a couple of
heavily intoxicated girls who, atypically were not very grateful for help received.
In addition, our 6’5” Nigerian security guard was suffering from a migraine so
was packed off home. We were asked out for lunch at Merv & Pat’s today for
which we were very grateful.
Monday was exercise day as we followed our normal swim with a 8.5
mile recce then cricket pitch repairs and an evening meal at Girton with some
of the walking group. In fact we had 5 matches on the Green in 8 days so no respite
for the groundsman in the testing weather!
On Tuesday evening we went to Warboys to hear a talk by Garry
Williams from the John Owen Centre at the London Theological Seminary and
Wednesday I painted the bottom shed with Cuprinol which proved an extremely
warm job.
The chapel cricket team were out against St Neots Evangelical Church
in the evening and we won fairly easily.
We led the walk we had recced on Thursday starting at Stow cum Quy
and crossing Quy Fen to Clayhythe, Waterbeach and back along Bottisham Lode via
the Cambridge Polo ground – which we had no idea existed and the disused
Coprolite Pits.
Quy Fen Coprolite Pit
Overgrown section of the Walk!
We attended another session of Street Pastor training on Friday
night which was better than some and in the night were woken by overhead
thunder and lightning followed by 1.5” of very welcome rain.
We have been picking red currants most days this week – I have never
seen such a heavy crop.
It has been Amélie’s 4th birthday today. Esther went down
to help with the celebrations with a “Creepy Crawlies” theme.
Love
Mike & Kate
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