Dear All,
Well winter seems to have arrived – no snow here, well just a wet
flurry, but -4°C in the greenhouse last night. The wind was more serious taking
a large end pane out of the larger greenhouse and blowing open the garden shed
even though it was locked. It damaged the lock so I have had to replace it.
I was at Wisley on Wednesday for the annual Planning Meeting for
next year’s trials. As has been the case in recent years, it was a fairly
acrimonious meeting as RHS believe in “Mushroom Management” and make imperious
decisions which are handed down by minions. Consequently our chairman resigned
and I have been asked to take over. It is a bit like taking over the wheel of
the Titanic!
There was a terrible accident on the Guided Busway on Wednesday
night and Jenny Taylor (who used to be Dennis Whitfield’s secretary) was hit
and killed by a bus. Kate was talking to her on Monday so it is a bit of a
shock. It is the first fatality on the Bussway in 4 years.
The “Just Vegetating” topic was “Legumes” this week and Kate and
other provided an exciting array of dishes to sample.
Our Thursday walk started at Barrington and took in Orwell, Little
Eversden and Harlton. There were a few steep climbs (for Cambridgeshire) but it
was a good walk. Barrington has a fantastic and extensive village Green and the
recently abandoned chalk pits are due to be filled with the extractions from
the new CrossRail workings which are reportedly half way complete.
Orwell Pits
Barrington Village Green
Break Time
The “Biography” subject was “Keith Douglas”, hands up those who had
heard of him? None of us had either. He was a second World War poet who fought
through El Alemein and was killed 3 days after the D-Day landings aged 24. He
had however been injured at the end of the African Campaign and had time to
publish some poems and write a book about his war experiences entitled “Alamein
to Zem Zem”. Why do we know several WW1 poets and none from WWII?
It was Messy Church yesterday but the numbers were low. I watched
football in the afternoon in what might be called a fresh breeze, in fact it
was blooming freezing!
Latest from Hove
Love
Mike & Kate
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