17th January 2021

 

Dear All,

Still plenty of water about locally. As Kate was taking Lorna for an X-Ray on Thursday, we undertook our longer walk on Tuesday – which was fortunate as the weather was not good on Wednesday or Thursday. We chose to keep as far as possible on to firmer paths by walking through the orchards to Swavesey, then along the entire length of the main street to nearly the A14. We then turned left parallel to the A 14 into flat farm land and looped back to the Guided Bus way and through the allotments back to Over. It was not the most scenic route but it was mainly firm underfoot and 75% on new paths for us.

 

 

Tippler’s Road, Swavesey

 

On Monday we walked down Over fen with water everywhere.

 

 

Fen End, Over

 

 

Furtherford, Over

 

 

Sugar Beet loading

 

We had some snow on Friday night but it did not settle as everywhere was too wet.

U3A started again this week and the “Biographies” subject was Sir Paul Nurse a Nobel prize winning geneticist who specialised in studying yeast cell division. He is currently Director of the Crick Institute near Kings Cross.

 

 

Sir Paul Nurse

 

Kate had an appointment at The Spire to check her eyes for Glaucoma which thankfully she does not have but an area of her eye which is not sensitive and the beginnings of cataracts.

I have been reading the second of my Christmas books “The Diary of a Bookseller” which I greatly enjoyed about the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland by Shaun Bythell.

 

 

The Diary of a Bookseller

 

Germination tests have been on going and I have started carrots, lettuce and watercress in the greenhouse.

Last night we had a “Review of the Year” which is usually part of the chapel New Year Social. I presented it on ZOOM which was a different experience as the audience were muted so I was not aware of any reaction.

 

 

With love

Mike & Kate