30th December 2018

Dear All,

I hope you all enjoyed Christmas? We certainly were pleased to have our branch of the family here. Ben cycled up on Sunday taking less than 6 hours. He chose a more scenic route back on Friday which took well over 7 hours and while here had cycled to St Ives, Cambridge and Ely. Andy also took a little exercise walking to St Ives and back a couple of times as well as other shorter excursions with Mary-Ann who played her part with a couple of jogs!

Esther and Emma arrived for Christmas lunch with a certain amount of luggage, considering they were only here for one night before returning to work on Thursday!

Christmas Morning

Christmas Afternoon

We all went to St Ives on Boxing Day to meet up with Andy (walking) and Ben (biking), mainly to feed the water fowl which were by no means starving. Jackie arrived for lunch en route for Beaumont and we were very pleased to see her.

St Ives Quay

Three Wiseish men?

Happy Families?

On Thursday Andy had to work and the rest of us went to Cambridge to the Fitzwilliam Museum and Newnham Playpark. Amélie had been studying ancient Egypt at school so we thought she would like to see the mummies but I think the highlight of the trip was “the café”.

 

Fitzwilliam Museum

At Newnham

Ben left Friday morning and the Hoveites after lunch. Albert had been coughing on the last day and deteriorated to wheezing overnight so had to be taken to the clinic where they put him on a nebulizer and ordered an ambulance to hospital. He was kept there for most of the day under observation having been given steroids and an inhaler. He was released home with the inhaler. Meanwhile Kate has broken a tooth at a less than ideal time to catch a working dentist!

Return Journey

Best wishes for the New Year to all (both?) our readers!

Love

Mike & Kate

PS Albert is much better but his inhaler is a two man job!