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Sunday, 11 July 2021

11^th July 2021

Dear All,

Days don’t get much more exciting than Monday when we went to Bluntisham tip in the morning and Milton tip in the afternoon! You still have to book a slot at the tips and Bluntisham is our nearest and best site, but when we arrived, they were not taking paint despite their web site saying that they do – hence the second visit, but strictly you are not allowed two visits within 7 days so we had to get special permission for the afternoon visit – I told you it was exciting! The garage now looks much emptier if not tidier!

Emptier, if not pristine garage

We entertained three people for lunch on Wednesday, the first time for several months. The guest list was Norman Ingle, Jenny and Tony Miles – combined ages about 240 years! But it seemed to go well and as we currently have a cucumber glut everyone had a docky bag to go home with!

Our walk on Thursday started at Ridgewell beyond Haverhill and took in Stambourne and Toppesfield. It was a new route that Philip Shaw was leading and turned out to be a fairly testing 9.2 miles involving some not very well travelled paths with long grass. The scenery was not spectacular but the crops were good and more varied than last week. The pub had invested in some imaginative space age bubbles for social distancing.

The White Hors,e Ridgewell

Barley crop

Floral headland

The cricket club invested heavily in a reconditioned Lloyds mower towards the end of the 2019 season. It does a fantastic job but turns out to be highly strung, as after very little work it is in for repairs with an estimate of £696! Anyone would think it was a dog attracting vet bills!

It has been a mega harvesting week in the garden and allotment: cucumbers, tomatoes, French beans, beetroot, calabrese, potatoes and salad onions while Kate has continued with strawberries and raspberries and picked 13 punnets of red currants.