4^th June 2023

 

Dear All,

Geoff and I had a decent crowd for our report on the recent Moldova trip, I compiled a 52 slide PowerPoint – should anyone wish to see it!.

It has been a fairly quiet week with only a massif 0.5 mm rain so we have begun watering anything vulnerable even earlier than last year. Kate has continued badger proofing the back garden but the night cam still picked up 2 badgers one night as well as a rather skinny fox every night. I have planted early leeks and two more batches of sweet corn trying to clear all seedlings out of the green houses before we are away again from next Saturday for a week in Derbyshire with Sue and Bill. Apart from planting and hoeing I have trimmed hedges here and at the allotment and painted an outdoor table and the bike shed and we have spring cleaned the garage.

Our Thursday walk started north of us at Broughton and took in Kings Ripton, Little Raveley, Wistow and the site of the Secret Garden festival. The conditions were good starting chilly but warming up but some of the paths qualified for the heading of “The Road Less Travelled!”. It was an extremely rural walk and you would find it hard to believe that the world is over populated from this outing!

 

 

The Crown, Broughton

 

 

Pink May

 

 

 

The Road Less Travelled

 

Friday evening Kate and I attended Over Players presentation of “Pride & Prejudice”. The standard was not quite up to BBC levels as several actors struggled to remember their lines and the prompter was fairly busy, but it was enjoyable nevertheless.

Dave, Adrian and myself joined Mervyn to watch the Cup Final on his wide screen TV – it was never a penalty, but I guess that made the game more exciting!

I had two photos in the Cambridge News under the heading of “Twists & Turns”. One was a mountain road in the Andes and the other was a mass of parasitic Dodder also in Ecuador.

 

 

Andean Mountain Road

 

 

Parasitic Dodder

 

 

 

 

Love

Mike & Kate