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Sunday, 10 July 2022

10th July 2022

Dear All,

So, has it been nearly warm enough for you this week? More to the point when will it rain again? – maybe waiting for the combines to get going – although we spotted a winter barley field cleared on Friday.

There were five of us swimming this week after which I patched the cricket wicket and Kate continued her currant affairs – red all last week and black, white and pink this week!

Pink Currants

As my potatoes are not enjoying the drought, I dug the early Foremost this week as well as lifting the spring planted bulb onions. Rotovating the land was a challenge and I needed to rough fork it over to get any penetration. The potato and onion land has now been sown with Mustard, Crimson Clover and Phacelia as green manure.

On Wednesday Kate and I went to the “Hockney” exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum and Downing College. I can’t pretend to admire all his offerings but some were very interesting and the exhibition had been arranged with pictures that had influenced him alongside.

Self Portrait

Le Parc de Sources, Vichy

Beach

Viewers Looking at Readymade with Skull & Mirrors

We took in the extension in Downing College and they were erecting the beginnings of an Ai Weiwei exhibition called “Cubes & Trees” and we witnessed the first item being erected:

A bolted together tree

Kate and I were leading the walk on Thursday and thankfully it was not too hot. We began at Graveley and took in Yelling and Papworth St Agnes. All three are quite small villages but were included in the Doomsday Book so have persisted.

View towards Graveley

Interested Bull!

Papworth St Agnew Communal Bakehouse

On Friday evening we attended Adrian Hart’s 70^th birthday Chinese meal celebration hosted by Kate & Gordon at Haddenham. Adrian used to teach in Over Primary and taught two of ours but more recently has been a professional gardener.

Adrian’s 70^th

Esther and Emma had a late call up to cousin Helen’s birthday boat trip from Maldon on Friday evening. Amḗlie and Albert both had sports days and both their teams’ won cups. This was followed by a school camping trip which happily was on a chicken farm.