31st December 2017

Dear All,

Well Christmas has come and gone, we hope you have had a good one? We enjoyed having all the family here for a few days. Esther drove up on Sunday and Ben of course arrived on his bike later that day.

On Christmas Day a 10am service and lunch were followed by presents, games, Facetime with Hove and phone call to Bolehill.

Boxing Day featured a walk round Over Fen in bright sunshine for Kate, Esther and myself while Ben completed a 18 kilometer run. We popped into Merv & Pat’s open house after lunch then Mary-Ann, Andy, Amélie and Albert arrived about 4pm after a bit of a queue at the Tunnel. We are currently looking after our friend’s vast hen flock (3) while they are in Australia and the children took serious interest this project. Both were very well behaved and appear to be growing up very well.

Over Fen

On Wednesday we had unexpected snow which was slushy enough not to settle for long. Andy is a great walker and took in St Ives, arriving back a little damp! In the afternoon we drove to Welney to watch the swan and duck feeding. They seemed quite happy despite rather chilly conditions.

Welney

 

 

Kate’s niece Natasha visited on Thursday together with her boyfriend who is broad Irish dairy farmer and unusually named Lenin!

Lenin & Natasha

Fit a Caption Contest!

Ben left at 9.30am on Friday and it took him 7 hours to get home battling with head winds. Esther left before lunch to prepare for a Respite care session that evening and the Hove family departed after lunch so we were suddenly rather quiet again!

Not many matches to choose from yesterday so Dave and I watched Brampton 2 v 0 Sawston.

Andy has to go back to Stockholm tomorrow and the plan is for Kate and I to travel to Hove on Friday and fly with Mary-Ann and the children early Saturday.

Best wishes for the New Year to you all.

Love

Mike & Kate