14th July 2024

 

Dear All,

After swimming on Monday, it was a little gardening between showers – planting late leeks and spare melons outdoors and digging up the autumn allium land. In the afternoon Richard Cox and I visited Paul Warrington to have this years Over Produce Show entry chart printed – he is a professional draftsman and has a giant printer. His office is at the bottom of his parent’s garden so we had to pass his parents’ house en route and we noticed his father dozing in an arm chair. Sadly, next morning his father Gary Warrington was found dead in his arm chair! He was a legendary local who had been Fen skating champion in his youth.

On Tuesday our car passed its MOT and then in the afternoon Kate had a request from Lorna to accompany her to Hinchingbrooke hospital as her son William had dislocated his knee cap and needed a scan. This was above and beyond the call of duty but she went and had a long frustrating wait as the machine had broken down the previous day and although mended had created a long back list. They eventually had a 2 hour wait which made Kate late for the family zoom and outing to Haddenham where Kate and Gordon had put on a meal for Adrian’s birthday. 12 gathered including Valerie and Lesley Gawn. Lesley has been diagnosed with a form of lung cavity cancer and has just begun treatment.

On Wednesday I sowed recently dug areas with Green Manure crops: Mustard, Phacelia and Crimson Clover. And in the evening happened to catch a football match where the result was never in doubt!!!

Our walk this week started at Brinkley and took in Burrough Green, Carlton, Weston Green and Willingham Green and to answer Mary’s recent query no we did not see anybody else all walk. We had decent weather and apart from many wild flowers we encountered several Linseed fields.

 

 

Linseed

 

 

Ford at Weston Green

 

 

Carlton Church Bells

 

 

Curious Spectators

 

 

Brinkley Flower Meadow

 

 

Friday was Glynis Fenwick’s funeral at the crematorium, it was a Humanist service with a large congregation. Although the lady in charge conducted it very professionally, she did not know Glynis and I think that always makes it a bit cold and difficult.

The Carnival seemed to go off pretty well with no serious rain. The funfair section was larger than ever and the chapel stand did good business with the Olympic Quiz, Bucket/Ball game, Lego and R&R section. We gave away 300 goodie bags to children. We have just returned from picking up litter which was not bad but the big funfair lorries have sunk in the Green due to recent dampness. We are entertaining a man from the London City Mission who is speaking this morning called Marat Kurbanov. He is of Ukrainian/American extraction and had to leave Ukraine just before the invasion. He was roped in to help with the Carnival stand and we took him on a walk round the Fen last night.

 

 

Chapel Stand Quiz

 

 

Dodgems

 

 

Axe Throwing

 

 

Grateful Recipients of Goodie Bags

 

Regards

 

Mike & Kate