4^th June 2017

Dear All,

It has been a good week for the suntan! We have not been far so the garden is reasonably under control and the car is clean. An ex NIAB colleague, Roger Morley came for lunch with a friend on Wednesday and gave us a donation for Street Pastors as he had a relative that lived on the streets with a drug addiction for 10 years but eventually married and has settled down with some help. He is also a Mason and promising further help in that dark and secretive direction!

Our Thursday walk was a new one starting at Catworth, north of us between Graffham Water and the A 14. I labelled the photos “50 Shades of Green” as everywhere looked very fresh and very green. The crops there looked especially good and there a good mixture of wheat, barley, rape, grass and even a parsnip seed crop.

On Friday we had lunch with Rob & Penny Turvey who are walking friends (they were at my 70^th). They have recently returned from Australia where both their children currently live.

In the evening we attended the Over Players latest offering “My Fair Lady” which was very good.

I was called into the cricket team on Saturday playing on Parkers Piece in Cambridge which has both pluses and minuses. It is an iconic setting but has a constant stream of pedestrian traffic, quite a bit of it across the pitch. On Saturday it was particularly busy as “Strawberry Fair” was taking place so the passers by were more high spirited than usual. One of our boundary fielders lost his cap and another had his trousers pulled down! We had the opposition at 46 for 7 then a Pakistani gentleman came in at number 8 and scored 71 not out taking them to 163 – 8. We reached 145- 9. We needed 30 of 3 over when I got in and although Chris Gayle would have smashed this with no trouble I only managed a run a ball 6. I did take a sizzling one handed catch and quite enjoyed the game.

love

Mike & Kate