4^th December 2016

Dear All,

It has been a fairly normal week with swimming, church groups, 60s music, walking, Biographies, gardening and football. However we have also been entertained to two meals out, been on Street Pastors duty, helped friends move house and I attended men’s breakfast yesterday.

We have had a new kitchen fitted at chapel thanks to an anonymous donation and we added an industrial type dish washer fitted this week so we had a training session on Tuesday morning.

Before

After

Dishwasher Training

“60s Music” featured top sellers from 1966 which included Frank Sinatra, The Four Tops, Nancy Sinatra, The Kinks, The Troggs, Manfred Mann, Herb Alpert, The Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch, The Who and Rolling Stones. Some improvement on the early 60s but still a few ropey ones!

Our Thursday walk started at Abinton Pigotts and took i Steeple Morden and Guilden Morden. The ground was still firm after a few days of -5°C and the sun stayed out so it was very pleasant and 48 turned out.

Near Litlington

A few walkers

A Touch of Frost

The “Biographies” subject was “Edward Lear” who although most famous for his nonsense poems primarily made his living from drawing and illustrations.

We had been invited out on Wednesday to Sandra Buchanan’s an ex walking colleague who fell and broke her pelvis at the New Year. She had a replacement and has started shorter walks again. Last night we were out again at Matthew and Rachel’s a young South African couple from church.

Street Pastors was fairly busy especially between midnight and 2.30 am with several Christmas parties in action and we were able to sort several “tired and emotional” folk. Most thankfully had supportive friends with them which helps no end. The worst case was on his own and had to be despatched to Addenbrookes as he failed to respond and his blood pressure dropped dramatically. I got to bed at 4.45 am and was up at 8.15 am for Men’s Breakfast where the speaker was John Searle an colourful ex professional poker player who became a pastor and started “AquAid” which supports a large number of projects in Africa particularly Malawi.

Stan and Maya, a Bulgarian couple from church are moving from Willingham to Fen End, Over this weekend. Kate helped with some painting on Friday and we helped move some furniture yesterday.

Love

Mike & Kate