11^th August 2024

 

Dear All,

On Monday we were still clearing up after the Show which meant returning all the display boards for the photographs and the art exhibition (which runs at the same time) to Rampton.

 

 

Show Secretaries at work

 

After I gapped up the asparagus bed at the allotment and helped Kate mend a puncture in her bike. How come in the Olympics and Tour de France it takes 2 minutes whereas we took about 2 hours? Geoff Pake rang and I helped him load some wood from the chapel and he brought a replacement hinge for our folding table tennis table. The original was made of Bakelite and manufacturers no longer stock the part but Geoff had cleverly made one from metal.

We had a swim on Tuesday joined by Carol and Mervyn then Esther, Emma, Amḗlie and Albert arrived in time for lunch. The afternoon was drizzly so we played a few indoor games with the favourite being “Exploding Chicken!”. They were able to try out the new equipment on the Village Green when the weather cleared up.

 

 

Zip Line

 

 

Whatever?

 

On Wednesday we took them to the Trampolining centre in St Neots. This was new to us but is a large shed with all sorts of bouncing activities.

 

 

 

 

Trampoline Barn

 

In the afternoon we took Albert blackberrying as he was keen to make a crumble. As Kate and I were down to lead the Thursday walk they decided to leave Wednesday evening so quite a brief visit but we were pleased to see them all.

 

 

Blackberry Hunter Gatherers!

The walk was the one we had recced a couple of weeks ago on the hottest day of the year 3 days after our night in Hinchingbrooke hospital and that had been hard work. It started at Hail Weston just over the A1 from St Neots and although quite long at 8.6 miles was not as bad as the recce. Unfortunately, Kate tripped over a lump of concrete and cut her chin and has a swollen lip but fortunately did not dislodge any teeth.

 

 

Barn with Pigeon loft

 

 

Dangerous Shark infested Wheat field

 

 

River Kym

 

There was a work party at the chapel on Friday to clear out the vestry which as become a dumping ground and to fell the large elder tree out the back. I chopped down most of the tree but my chain saw was playing up so the job was not completed. The clear out generated a considerable amount of material to be disposed of so on Saturday Kate and I took some to Emmaus but they are quite choosey as what they will take so the rest, we took on to Milton dump.

Regards

 

 

Mike & Kate