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Friday, 9 June 2023

9^th June 2023

Dear All,

Early dispatch this week as we are off to Derbyshire tomorrow – hopefully. I say hopefully as Kate’s sister Sue phoned this morning to tell us that she and Bill are recovering from Covid – do we still want to go? As we have an arm full of injections and they seem to getting over it we plan to risk it. We are not off at crack of dawn as there is a farmer speaking at Men’s Breakfast tomorrow and Kate is helping with the cooking. We are also planning to call on one of Kate’s relatives – 2^nd cousin? in Duffield – as both Kate and he plot their family trees and like to swap information.

After swimming Monday morning, it was back to watering and weeding and BS preparation. I led on Wednesday on the topic of “Mordecai”.

We attended an ex NIAB employees’ lunch at Girton Golf Course on Tuesday then it was entertaining Arthur and Grace after school.

Kate has continued her war on badgers this week and has tacked wooden slats along the hedge boundary and we have placed pallets and wire along the bottom – however the Night Cam revealed two intruders last night so defences do not seem to be perfect yet!

Badger Proofing

Intruder

Norman Ingle was here for lunch on Wednesday and former neighbour Derek Medlock and Joyce came for tea. Derek is still heavily involved in the rabbit world and gets to judge shows all over Europe. They recently were in Germany for a show that in the past attracted 25,000 entries (once reaching 31,000!) however this year it had shrunk to a mere 9,500! A friend had asked them to buy a variety of giant rabbit at the show for which they paid 250 euros. They went for a cup of tea and when they went to collect the rabbit someone had stolen it!

Our Thursday walk was reasonably local starting at Hardwick and taking in Toft and Comberton. The sun shone throughout but it was not too hot and the crops we passed looked very well.