15th
March 2020
Dear
All,
Well
we are living in interesting times! U3A cancelled all meeting indoors and
outdoors on Thursday. Needless to say our walks leader Philip is still
contemplating whether to comply. Church has stopped all meetings involving
food, started collecting names of attendees and deciding whether all meetings
will go ahead. Over football was cancelled as the opposition requested it and
to make it worse Kate has decided that the freed up time should be spent
decorating!
It
is not all bad news as we managed to get a plumber this week to fix an overflow
problem – he is the third one we have tried after six messages.
On
Monday I was down at Wisley to assess onions from storage. It was a good time
to go as the Magnolias and Azaleias were beginning to show on Battlesdon Hill
and there were huge sweeps of crocuses. Needless to say the M25 was not flowing
freely so we barely made it in time. Kate meanwhile attended the U3A film which
this week was a Hitchcock thriller “Shadow of a Doubt“.
Onion Storage
Wednesday
was the best weather we have enjoyed so far and I managed to plant early
potatoes and onion sets and round up digging after leeks and parsnips. In the
evening I was at Whittlesford Garden Club – my 8th talk in the last
7 weeks.
Thursday
saw us at Therfield above Royston. It was a good walk but very up and down with
some severe wind gusts. Violets were the flowers of the day.
Overlooking Royston
Violets
Yesterday
John Lane and I attended a cricket pitch maintenance course at Cambourne. You
can always teach old dogs new tricks! In the afternoon Dave and I went to watch
Comberton v Hemingford – one of the few surviving fixtures.
With
love
Mike
& Kate
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