10th March 2024
Dear All,
Monday
began with a swim as usual and the pool was fairly crowded again but tolerable.
Just Vegetating week 8 was “Minor Vegetables – part 1” featuring 22 crops
starting with Scorzonera, Salsify and Hamburg Parsley. Kate cooked Salsify,
Spinach & Ricotta roll up lasagne and Cucumber crunch salad. One member of
the class is a professional illustrator and sent me some of the veg paintings
this week:
Globe Artichoke
Tomato
Squash
French
History covered the 19th century post Napoleon and was headed
“Monarchy, Republic & Empire”. We covered several kings, a few revolutions
and Louis Bonaparte becoming Emperor.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix
We
were pleased to welcome Esther & Emma for the day on Wednesday. Only a few
jobs and a little cleaning this visit and we had lunch at the Willingham
Auction House café.
That
morning, we had our boiler serviced and ironically it was working before the
service and would not work afterwards. The engineer suggested a new part which
was not available locally so we shivered for 36 hours. Next day Kate took a
call from the boss man suggesting that we reset the timer and relight the
boiler. This she did and it worked – why the first chap could not do this is a
mystery but Kate is now setting up as a consultant heating engineer!
Hosannah,
we had a Thursday walk with no rain! There was still a little mud and we had to
revise the route to avoid the University Rifle Range as they were blasting away
again. The walk was partly one we recced two weeks ago starting at Barton and
taking in Grantchester but this time we did not go into Coton.
Sticky Stretch
Horses Paddling
near Grantchester
River Cam at Grantchester
River Cam closer
to Cambridge
Biographies
this week was a double header Tom Stoppard and Nevil Shute. The Stoppard talk
was by a rather vague lady who asked me to prepare a PowerPoint for her. This
involved 13 emails 35 pictures of varying quality from poor to awful presented
upside down and back to front. 10 proved to be duplicates and no indication of
an order.
Our
leader did a short presentation on Nevil Shute concentrating on his aviation
experience working on balloons and airships,
Tom Stoppard
Nevil Shute
I
managed to plant lettuce and Broad beans in the garden this week as well as cut
the grass again. In the greenhouse I sowed some Skirret an ancient root
vegetable that was popular in Tudor times.
Skirret
One
of my CEEM colleagues managed to collect 20 used firemen’s uniforms from
Brighton on Friday which is the first step in sending them to Moldova.
I
watched Over Res 1 v 0 Histon Res yesterday while the 1st team won 5
v 0 at Cherry Hinton.
Regards
Mike
& Kate
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