11th September
2022
Dear All,
It
was back to swimming this week after 6 weeks of holiday schedules. Monday also
included a haircut and a CEEM meeting in Sandy and a certain amount of digging.
We received our U3A Course allocations this week. Apart from “Just Vegetating”
and “Biographies” which I or we help run and the Walking I am on “Napoleon Bonaparte”
and “Next Question” a course on quizzes.
The
car sailed through it’s MOT this week which is always a relief and we have been
asked to present a quiz at the Day Centre again after a two-year Covid hiatus.
News
came through this week that we have been short listed for a Cricket groundsman
award, it involves a lunch at Chelmsford during Essex’s last home game. I do
not expect we will win but a free lunch is a free lunch!
Our
walk this Thursday was reasonably local starting at Linton and taking in
Hadstock, Great Abington and Hildersham. It was a good walk on what proved to
be the driest day of the week, five days running with rain has been unprecedented
this week as we had not rain on three consecutive days before this year.
News
came through at lunchtime that the Queen was poorly but it was still a shock
when she died having looked quite perky chatting to the new Prime Minister.
Linton Ford
Linton Water Mill
Cultivations
View towards
Linton Tower
On
Friday we were in Cambridge for a military style briefing form Philip for the
U3A walking holiday in The Forest of Bowland starting on 9th October.
Being Philip, we have already chosen our dinner for the 9th! We have
been allocated leading a walk on the first day so we are planning to go up the
day before to carry out a recce as it does not look completely straightforward.
Kate invested in new walking boots which is always a challenging purchase. She
has been wearing them round the house to wear them in! We also returned our
Street Pastors uniforms – the end of an era!
There
was a Men’s Breakfast at chapel yesterday, the speaker was an ex-Policeman who
lost his wife suddenly with a brain haemorrhage aged 34 leaving three children
aged between 6 months and 6 years old.
Plenty
of digging this week so I have finished 50% of the allotment and a few pieces
here. It was Winter Squash harvest this week – only about 50 this year compared
with 80 last time. Kate has been working on the front garden and a man stopped
and said to her “every time I come past you are on your knees” – pious woman!
Allotment Squash
Patch
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Pious Kate!
Our
old neighbour Derek Medlock and partner Joyce were here again yesterday so we
invited then to lunch. They were due at Sandringham for a rabbit show but for
some reason it was cancelled!
The
Cambridge News theme this week was “Swimming” and I had two photos printed one
from the Dead Sea and one of Albert in the paddling pool.
Mud application
before Dead Sea swim
Albert in Hove
Paddling Pool
love
Mike
& Kate
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