14^th November 2021

 

Dear All,

We began the week with another chilly swim as the heating sensor in the pool had gone wrong. It was OK once you were in and probably compared well with many dips in the North Sea!

Arthur was here Tuesday morning and I planted out over wintered Broad Beans. Garden Clubs seem to be revving up again after lockdown and I managed two on Tuesday: Cambridge U3A group on Zoom in the afternoon and Histon GC in the flesh in the evening.

Our Wednesday History session on Zoom covered:

Oswiu The New Overlord

The Reign of Oswiu

Wulfhere a New King of Mercia

And

What was happening with the spread of Christianity

Evidently, I fell asleep during the most interesting part!

In the afternoon I had a rather severe haircut delivered by a very chatty Belgian barber with an Art degree!

On Thursday we began our walk at Great Chishall and circled through Chishall Common, Chrishall and Heydon. Highlight was a herd of over 30 deer. It was very misty to start with but eventually cleared,

 

 

Misty start

 

 

 

 

Horse with Burdock Hairstyle

 

 

Heydon Village Pump

 

 

Heydon Old School house

 

 

In the evening we held the AGM for the Over Produce Show and a Committee meeting. As the attendance for both was low, we made progress and suggested a few alterations for next year.

Biography subject this week was Neville Chamberlain, who was of course widely condemned for attempting appeasement with Hitler, but in fairness very few wanted another war and at one stage he had 87% backing for his policies. When he came back from Munich waving the “Peace for our Time” document he received 20,000 letters of congratulations, cart loads of presents and an invitation to Buckingham Palace.

 

 

Peace for our Time

 

I spent Saturday morning helping Adrian again and we have now tamed ¾ of his garden! In the afternoon I watched Over 0 v 1 Witchford. For the second time in recent weeks Over should have won and then conceded an 89^th minute goal.

After my kidney stone adventure, I was required to have blood tests to assess any kidney damage and two tests have shown high Creatinine readings so I have to have another tomorrow – it could explain periodic low energy levels.

Esther brought a new car recently and appears to be happy with it. And not to be caught napping they must be amongst the first people in the country to install and decorate a Christmas tree!

 

 

Proud owner

 

 

Avoiding last Minute Panic!

 

With love

Mike & Kate