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Sunday, 16 August 2020

16th August 2020

Dear All,

A fairly quiet week: gardening, sorting the cricket wicket, walking and getting wet! On Thursday I had an optician’s appointment in Swavesey and the advice was to avoid driving as they put drops in your eyes as part of the revised social distancing treatment. Thus, I biked and got caught in a serious thunder storm on the way back – not helped by getting my second puncture in a week to prolong the journey. Kate meantime had a dental appointment and then on to Tesco’s and she also managed to get soaked. However, we needed the rain and actually it was quite refreshing.

Damp Day

Beans and Tomatoes are continuing to crop each day now joined by Sweet Corn which despite four separate plantings seems to be coming in all at once.

We had Street Pastors ZOOM AGM on Tuesday evening. We have not operated during the lockdown but some have volunteered to help with the City initiative to feed the homeless being accommodated in hostels and hotels. Pairs of SPs have been out on the last couple of weeks to assess the traffic and it seems only the Regal and Revs have any volume of customers and this finishes at midnight. However, people in the queues are ignoring social distancing completely.

Kate and I walked to St Ives on Friday following the river on the Swavesey side. We did not see any other walkers and our usual companions are either on holiday or struggling with ailments. It was a good walk – a little sticky underfoot with the rain, finishing at the marina in St Ives, after which we caught the Guided Bus back. We planned to drop in at “The Nook” a vaunted coffee shop in Swavesey square, but when we arrived there was a queue of a dozen walkers outside the door so that was aborted.