Dear All,
It has been an interesting week! I came home from football last
Saturday with tooth ache and Tuesday afternoon saw me in the chair as the
dentist explored my root canals – “there should be four roots, I will have to
dig around for the last one” Cue a drill bit resembling something from my
woodwork kit! Actually it wasn’t too bad but I need two more 1.5 hour
appointments and he slyly introduced the price while I was anaesthetised.
Monday we had a meeting to plan the church events for a year,
followed by a deacons meeting and then Tuesday a group meeting. Three meetings
in two days is not what I retired for!
On Wednesday I was due as Wisley for the final trial assessment of
2015 trials of Brussels sprouts and Leeks. I was travelling with a colleague
from Bury St Edmunds and we were caught in a serious fatal accident on the
Cambridge ring road near the start of the M11 where a car exploded and caught
fire. We were trapped for 2 hours and arrived at Wisley just as the meeting
ended! We did manage to examine the
plots later. The road still hadn’t opened at 7 pm when we returned.
Flower Sprouts (our newest vegetable) on the
end of the Brussels sprouts
Leek trial with 29 entries
Our Thursday walk was round Potton, Sandy and Sutton. Although it
was chilly and wet the soil is sandy and well drained so not as sticky as it
might have been.
Sandy Pits
Sutton Packhorse Bridge
Potton Centre
I watched Over lose 1 v 0 to Cottenham in “cool” conditions yesterday
afternoon then we were on “Street Pastors” last night. Kate was in the cafe and
I was on patrol. It initially seemed to be quiet but cold with snow flurries, but
after midnight there were several fairly serious incidents not least a Portuguese
chap who had been beaten up with a black eye, bloody nose and torn coat and no
buttons left on his shirt. The police got involved and took him to the cafe.
Kate said he got quite belligerent and kept muttering about “Jesus” which led
them to believe he was some sort of fanatic. It later turned out that his name
was “Jesus da Silva!”
Love
Mike & Kate
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