24th November 2019

Dear All,

With love

We missed swimming this week as Kate’s cooking for “Just Vegetating” was more time demanding, this week it was “Potatoes”. In the evening we had a Street pastors get together mainly to discuss recruitment and the new temporary café site on Parkers Piece which is not attracting the usual number of customers.

On Tuesday we drove down to Hove via Littlehampton to visit a former neighbour Sophie Bridgeman who is now in an old folks home and rather frail.

On Wednesday we took Albert to Middle Farm near Lewes where he found the pigs a little intimidating but was happier with the harvest mouse and the ice cream!

River Arun, Littlehampton

Resident Artist

Kate & Albert

Fearsome Pigs

Less Fearsome harvest Mouse

 

Farmer Bert

Our Thursday outing began at Chevington near Bury St Edmunds. It was dry overhead but fairly sticky underfoot.

  

Grass maze at Chevington church

The biography subject this week was “Franz Kafka” a rather complex character who was loath to publish anything he wrote and asked for everything to be destroyed after his death – which did not completely happen although 90% of his output did perish.

  

Franz Kafka

 We entertained Grace and Arthur in the afternoon. Our pastor David’s father died this week so he has flown to South Africa for the funeral and subsequent arrangements so it is all hands to the pump for a week or two.

Most of you will know that we were in Beaumont for David’s 80^th celebrations yesterday. He didn’t want the guest list to be all over 70 so there was a good mixture of younger locals. We were fed well, fitted captions to photos and had a glimpse of his hitherto secret memoirs!

David, Graham & Jen

And furthermore………

Love

Mike & Kate