21st August 2016

Dear All,

Kate and I were at Hutton on a rather warm day on Wednesday. Esther is very thoughtful in providing these bimonthly work creation days for her elderly parents to keep them fit and active! It was mainly weeding, pruning, mowing, green house tidying this time and Esther was able to nip home for lunch.

Chez Esther

On Monday I had another trip to Wisley this time judging Sweet Corn and Sweet Peppers. The sweet Corn was only just coming in but there were 66 Pepper varieties in a hot tunnel and they took a bit of sorting. The M25 was as constipated as usual and I have another visit planned for next Thursday.

We became the proud owners of a new front fence on Tuesday. The previous one was erected with the house nearly 70 years ago so had not done too badly. Its eventual demise was hastened by someone backing into it last year.

Our Thursday walk was back at Cowlinge again and took in Little Bradley. Cereal harvest was nearly complete in that area but there were several fields of beans still standing.

Cricket still has another 2 weeks to run and the wicket had to be soaked for 12 hours during the week.

On Friday we had lunch at Yelling with Rob & Penny who were at my party. Rob walks with us and survived a traumatic childhood – when he was 5 he came home from school to find his mother had committed suicide and killed his younger sister.

Love

Mike & Kate