3rd January
2021
Dear All,
Happy New Year to all
readers (both of you!). Less rain and a few decent frosts to start the year. We
started having am evening quiz on “Whereby” with Ben and Hutton and Hove have
gradually joined in on occasions.
“Whereby”
session
Not the most exciting
week: sawing wood, harvesting veg, walking and preparing a Review of the Year.
I have been reassembling the “Heath Robinson” propagation cabinet this week in
readiness for germination tests and starting off this year’s crop.
Propagator
Three ZOOM/Whereby
sessions on Thursday: Walkers, CEEM and family quiz. We are preparing another
Moldova Newsletter so hold your breath!
The longer walk on
Thursday was a nice contrast to recent slogs through mud as it was frozen
throughout and walking on frozen mud is much easier than on its squelchy cousin.
We walked through Over Fen, Willingham Fen and Willingham village. There was
still plenty of water about and Willingham will not be playing bowls, cricket
or football for a bit!
Cook’s
Sheep in the frost
The
Gravel
Willingham
Bowls club
Water
Hazard
Yesterday we were back in
Over Fen and Burling’s Bulls were standing knee deep in mud.
Earlier in the week they
had harvested sugar beet in the fen and you can see how much damage this crop
does to the soil structure.
Burling’s
Bulls
Sugar
Beet harvest
Kate is taking on an
extra section of allotment and the man she is sharing it with has dug it all
this week.
New
Allotment
With love
Mike & Kate
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