16th January 2022

 

Dear All,

Back to swimming on Monday and walking on Thursday. The pool was up to 29°C and still plenty of room with only 10 swimming.

Arthur was here again on Tuesday morning taking a great interest in our new cooker being installed. The ceramic hobs mean that it is very quick even though a new set of saucepans was needed.

 

 

New Oven & Pans

 

Kate had another Addenbrooke’s trip on Wednesday this time for a mammogram – no results from anything yet.

In the evening we met Phil Bowes at Eaton Socon for a meal and Moldova catch up followed by a PM at St Neots.

I rediscovered the notes I made for the eulogy for Dad’s funeral and typed them up as Ben having read my story wanted to know more about the previous generation. There are no prizes for spotting mistakes but it has been pointed out that I left Robbie and Danny off of the great children list.

The Thursday walk started at Guilden Morden and touched Ashwell and Steeple Morden. It was an excellent sunny day but very sticky under foot and beginning with a 100-acre field was not ideal! You could say I was fatigued after!

 

 Winter walking

 

Guilden Morden

 

I have pricked out lettuce, onions, mustard, tomatoes and rocket so far – probably all too early but having germinated the seeds it is hard to throw them away. In addition, we purchased seed potatoes on Friday and set them up for chitting and purchased onion sets for spring planting.

U3A “Just Vegetating” should start tomorrow so I have been updating the talks and Kate has been sorting new recipes.

Ben seems to have recovered well from Covid and was released from confinement Friday.

Esther and Emma are at Hove for the weekend to help Mary-Ann celebrate her birthday

I watched Over 2 v 1 Foxton Saturday afternoon with the winning goal coming 2 minutes from the end of a rather chilly watch!

The Cambridge News photo theme this week was patterns and submitted a tray of Romanescos

 

 

Romanesco Cauliflowers

With love

Mike & Kate