26th February 2023

 

Dear All,

The undoubted highlight this week was the visit of my brother, sister and brother-in-law on Tuesday! We caught the guided bus to St Ives for lunch at Wetherspoons then explored the town a little taking in the refurbished museum, river, church and quay before returning to Over for chat and tea. Unfortunately, David in particular got caught up in the traffic delays at Longstanton following a nasty accident involving a car, van and motor cyclist who was collected in the air ambulance.

 

 

Chez Wetherspoons

 

 On the Riverbank

 

Museum Skating Exhibit

 

On Monday “Just Vegetating” covered Legumes and Kate produced Mixed Bean Masala, Stir fried Runner beans with Hazelnuts and Pasta with Pea Pesto,

I cut the grass for the first time and dug a row of late Parsnips from Elsom’s garden. Sadly, Ken is now in a home so I guess this will be my last gardening action there.

On Wednesday after entertaining Norman Ingle for lunch and church group at Kitson’s we had a succession of visitors: Mervyn followed by Rachel, Grace, Arthur and Nathan then Lorna – at one stage all together.

Thursdays walk started at Harlton and took in Little and great Eversden, the Wimpole Estate, Orwell and Barrington. It was pretty good going despite over night rain and included a few more hills than most Cambridgeshire walks. The ancient Mulberry tree pictured below was one of 10,000 planted by order of King James 1 in an effort to promote the silk industry in Britain. Unfortunately, he imported black mulberries rather than white so it did not work.

 

Orwell Clunch Pits

  

Orwell Church

 

 Orwell Ancient Mulberry Tree planted 17^th Century

  

Harlton Clunch Pit

 

On Friday our “Biographies” leader was down with Covid so I was in charge again for a presentation by a physics teacher on Richard Feynman he was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. – got that? He also worked at Los Alamos on the development of the Atomic bomb and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965.

 

 

Richard Feynman

 

I decided to replace 3 broken sheets of glass in the greenhouses this week. It used to be fairly easy as there was a supplier on Over Industrial site but sadly he is ill and the business is suspended. This meant ordering from Go Glass in Cambridge and collecting from Pampisford 23 miles away. Two small sheets and one large one cost an unbelievable £90! – and I only cut my finger once removing the old glass!

The curtain saga took and step this week as they contacted Kate to say the material was ready for collection which we arranged to do on Friday but when Kate checked they had not included the lining and heading tape – yes, they would correct this – only to find they had run out!

Over had a great win yesterday beating Foxton several places above them in the league 4 v 0. In the evening we were invited to a meal at Jenny and Tony Miles.

The Cambridge News photos this week featured “Farm Animals” and I submitted:

 

 Lambs in North Wales

 

Love

Mike & Kate