24th March 2024
Dear All,
This
was the last week of the U3A term so after swimming Monday it was week 10 of
Just vegetating – Chinese Vegetables and Salads. Kate didn’t stick to the
script and produced: summer salad, vegan beetroot chocolate cakes and Sweet
potato gratin with coconut and chilli.
The
class had been excellent this year with plenty of questions, good attendance
and finally generous in their comments and donation of £210 for CEEM.
In
the afternoon I managed to book flights to Moldova, this time direct to Chisinau
from Luton, 2nd May to 9th May. Two of us this time,
Geoff Pake a retired Willingham farmer and myself. All we have to do now is
make sure the firemen’s uniforms and seed arrive before we do.
French
History week 10 covered 1919 to 1945, Depression, Defeat, Collaboration,
Resistance & Liberation. Squabbles with Germany after World War 1, then
World War 11 which they were not ready for, the split country with the Vichy
Zone, D Day etc. Again, it is a surprise that so many people survived!
From
the family Zoom Tuesday evening we learnt that Ben is on his travels again this
time a long weekend in Luxembourg, also that Albert was to dance in Brighton
Pavilion with his school.
Strictly come Brighton!
We
cut the cricket square a couple of times on Wednesday yielding several barrow
loads of grass. After I planted cabbage, cauliflowers and calabrese in the
fruit cage as that was the only dry piece of land and dug trenches to fill with
compost for Runner beans. In the evening it was Over Garden Club and I spoke on
Potatoes. To work in with this the committee had purchased some seed potatoes
for a competition as well as previously planned begonia corms.
Thursday’s
walk started at Wrestlingworth near Potton and circled via Hook’s Mill and
Tadlow. It was completely dry overhead and much less mud than recently. There
were plenty of spring flowers on show mainly blackthorn, daffodils and violets.
Oil seed crops were beginning to colour up.
Hook’s Water Mill
Hook’s Windmill
Well, there was
some mud!
Wrestlingworth
church
Friday’s
Biography subject was Ibn Battutah an Islamic traveller, explorer and scholar. Over
a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North
Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia,
China, the Iberian Peninsula, and West Africa, totalling around 117,000 km
(73,000 mi).
Ibn Battutah’s
travels
After
the class had an end of term lunch at the Maypole pub.
Kate
and I managed to plant potatoes here and at the allotment on Saturday and I
scarified the lawn which yielded a barrowful of moss and thatch.
I
watched Over 4 v 1 Witchford in the afternoon.
Regards
Mike
& Kate
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