7th November
2021
Dear All,
We have new neighbours at
No. 17, both parents work for Astro Zeneca and they have Jessica 9 and Ben 7.
We took them some vegetables to welcome them to Willingham Road – they have
only moved from King Street – but have clearly gone upmarket!
Meanwhile the wall that a
car demolished at No. 21 is being repaired by the UKs slowest bricklayer, I was
reading about Hadrian’s Wall which is 82 miles long and was completed in 10
years, our man was obviously not on the job!
21
Willingham Road
We had three white over
frosts this week so that has hurried digging up dahlias and chrysanthemums and
harvesting peppers – we have a serious glut of chillies so most of our walking
group were forced to take some on Thursday.
Chilli
harvest
After swimming on Monday,
we had an outing to St Ives mainly to collect items for the Christmas shoebox
scheme. We entertained (or were entertained by?) Arthur again on Tuesday as his
mother is preparing for some accountancy exams.
Our History class on
Wednesday is still in the 5th to 7th centuries when
Mercia and Northumberland were strong and spent much of the time fighting each
other and anyone else who was interested. Christianity was introduced from two
directions and most kings’ names were prefixed Aethel…
Our Thursday walk this
week started at Wrestlingworth near Potton and took in Potton and Sutton. It
was mostly on sandy soil so dry underfoot and although we did not see much
wildlife were surprised to see 25 people spread out in a field, which on first
look seemed to be a shoot, but on closer inspection they all had metal detectors!
Potton
Rectory
Treasure
Hunters
Spindle
Bush
The cricket club mowers
were returned after winter maintenance – an expensive operation, but hopefully
guaranteeing a trouble-free year ahead!
The Biographies topic
this week was Lyndon B Johnson the 36th President of the US of A, a
slippery politician if ever there was one! His style was to agree with whoever
he was talking to and to know everyone’s weaknesses. He was funded by the Texas
oil industry and had a secret rake off from every deal struck in the state. His
biographer Robert Caro is currently working on the 5th volume page
650 of LBJ’s life story!
Lyndon
B Johnson
I finished digging Elsom’s
garden on Wednesday and spent all yesterday morning helping tidy and dig Adrian
Hart’s Garden. Adrian is a professional gardener but runs out of enthusiasm and
energy when it come to his own patch.
Over did not have a game
yesterday so I went to watch West Wratting and Foxton on my own this time as my
usual buddy Dave is poorly in bed.
With love
Mike
& Kate
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