1st January
2023
Dear All,
Happy
New Year to all readers! Christmas was good but it is soon over even though it
seemed like a long week at the time! There were just the 3 of us on Christmas
Day so we were quiet and orderly but were able to play a full whack of games!
Christmas tea
On
Monday Kate and I took advantage of the sunshine to walk round the Fen while
Ben caught up with mates.
Muck Heap with
Christmas Decoration!
Cuckoo Drove
Mary-Ann,
Andy, Amḗlie & Albert arrived at 2.30pm after a
queue at the Dartford Tunnel and Esther & Emma arrived 7ish accompanied by
two newly acquired Kittens – Christmas entertainment taken care of!
.JPG)
Full
cast lunch
We had a trip to Coton Garden Centre on Tuesday morning as Amḗlie was keen to
snap up some Christmas decoration bargains.
Ben
left on Wednesday morning still suffering from sore ribs, Adrian called and I
thanked him for his present of cheese – only to discover that he had given us a
book! We then went to Old Hurst to the Crocodile farm. This has grown
considerably since our last visit with 30-40 crocodiles as well as snakes,
deer, parrots, meercats a bear, lynx and puma.
General view
inside
Large specimen
Puma
In
the afternoon Albert donned an apron and whisked up a very acceptable Yule Log.
Christmas Log and
chef
All
our remaining visitors left on Thursday morning and Kate and I walked round the
village distributing Esther’s Christmas cards!
On
Friday after a quick trip to Tesco’s we visited Welney Wetland Centre together
with Adrian. There was only a handful of swans but a large crowd of ducks:
Pochards, Mallards and Tufted. The water level was very high and feeding was as
usual very exciting.
Feeding Time
Feeding Frenzy
Saturday
was really wet and miserable so I spent most of the day preparing the annual
review for the chapel social.
Love
Mike
& Kate
No comments:
Post a Comment