9th January 2022

 

Dear All,

A fairly quiet week after the excitement of Christmas – it always seems a little solemn when the decorations come down. These are the tree decorations we painted under E & E’s directions:

 

 

Christmas tree decorations

 

I have assembled the home-made propagator this week checking seed germinations and pricking out some that might survive at this time of the year.

 

Heath Robinson Propagator

 

We have pruned apple and pear trees when the sun was shining in the early part of the week.

 

We missed our Thursday walk this week as Kate had an appointment at Addenbrooke’s for a bone density scan but we had done shorter local walks on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We spotted a group of deer in Over Fen and as usual plenty of evidence of badger activity. While Kate was at Addenbrooke’s Adrian called for an hour and Lorna called for an hour so I did not get much done. In addition, we called on Janet and Jim who had his “National Service in Aden” album out and full of reminiscences.

 

Over Middle Way

 

 

Deer in Over Fen

 

Active Badger sett in Middle Way

 

 

 

Muddy Avenue to the Gravel

I have been updating my presentations for “Just Vegetating” which should start in a couple of weeks.

The weather has been rather depressing towards the end of the week but we decided to brave it and watched Hemingford 2 v 3 Cherry Hinton in challenging conditions.

Our Jig Saw count this period has risen to 7

 

 

7^th Puzzle

Star plant this week is a new Amaryllis which we collected at a talk at Over Garden Club last year. It produces multiple flowers from a single bulb.

 

 

Amaryllis

 

 

Ben has succumbed to Covid and was distinctly croaky on the family Zoom Friday night. It cannot be much fun when you live on your own.

With love

Mike & Kate