21st April 2018

Dear All,

Just a brief note between absences. You should have received my account of the Moldova visit and the photos on Dropbox so I won’t repeat anything from that. We leave tomorrow for a walking trip with uncle Philip to Wales staying at Trefriw north of Betws-y-Coed.

It has been a hectic four days catching up with the garden, preparing the cricket square, a meeting at NIAB, a planning meeting for the Village Show, cleaning the car, restoring my office, writing the report, labelling the photos, balancing the accounts and Street Pastors last night. On top of that I went to watch Over playing football on Wednesday and ended up taking my neighbour to A&E as he suffered a broken jaw following a sliding tackle.

Kate had arranged for my office to be re carpeted while I was away which entailed taking everything out into the playroom – it is amazing how much can be fitted into a small room!

Before

After

Street Pastors was a warm night which increased the foot fall and we had a couple of tricky cases. The first was a street life girl Julia sobbing and uncommunicative in Rose Crescent. The second was a large lady aged 27 collapsed outside Vodka Revs. She was unable to stand so could not go home in a taxi and was very difficult to encourage into locomotion due to her size. She almost certainly not just on alcohol and eventually had to be taken off in an ambulance. Otherwise there were plenty of requests for water and several grateful for flip flops.

Love

Mike & Kate