21st January 2018

Dear All,

It was a chilly night on Street Pastors last night which meant there were not huge numbers of people about. As usual, it started quietly until midnight, then livened up a little after that but was not too busy: a fight or friends subduing a violent mate?, a very intoxicated young man who persistently propositioned Kate (it was dark!), summoned to Revolution to check two drunk girls who declined help, several chats to street dwellers and distributing a few pairs of flip flops for the inappropriately shod.

I had a quiet start to the week as I was suffering from a heavy cold so missed my first U3A “Silk Road” class and a church meeting. Kate started a new class on “Osteoporosis” on Monday. I used the downtime to back up my computer and write another garden column.

On Wednesday Kate used up one of her Birthday gifts – an afternoon tea at the Anchor at Sutton Gault. She invited Dave & Ellie – walking friends, to accompany us.

The Anchor

Balanced Diet!

The Anchor, Sutton Gault

Kate joined the U3A walk on Thursday starting at Woodditton but I did my own thing with a more gentle hike round Over Fen.

Over Fen

Overcote, Pike & Eel

I went to “Biographies” on Friday where the subject was “Ansel Adams” an American landscape photographer and environmentalist. He left school at 12 and initially became a musician but family trips to Yosemite hatched a love for the great outdoors and he was described as Americas greatest ever landscape photographer. One print earned him $25m!

We are still looking after John & Sally’s chickens and house and on Friday Kate discovered that half the power in the house was down, including the deep freeze. In the end we had to pull the very tight fitting freezer out and connect to live electricity via an extension cable.

In the evening we were guests at the Day Centre meal for volunteers qualifying due to presenting a fund raising quiz each year. They have lost a lot of local government funding but seem to have weathered the storm.

There was another Lego Event at chapel yesterday and these seem to be going well. I managed to watch a top of the table clash at Brampton v Great Shelford in the afternoon – again a rather chilly experience!

Love

Mike & Kate