8th September 2024

 

Dear All,

This has been new shed week! Our old bike shed had seen better days and was rotting in places and the door no longer locked. Demolition was a difficult job followed by cutting it up into manageable pieces with a chain saw. The new one arrived on Wednesday and a couple of guys put it together in about an hour. When I cleared the old floor there was a remarkable stinkhorn fungus which was delicate but lived up to its name!

 

 

Pile ready for cutting up

 

 

Stinkhorn Fungus

 

 

New Temple

 

Once erected I had to paint it with waterproof liquid them add guttering – a good week’s work!

This weekend is our Harvest Thanksgiving at chapel so we have been collecting produce to decorate the building and I have been compiling a harvest report. Last night we had a Harvest Supper followed by an excellent talk by Geoff Pake about the joys of being a farmer.

We harvested the last of the Sweet Corn this week and the electric fence has been a success. I planted a new vine – hopefully a good eating variety.

Our Thursday walk started at Lettle Walden near Saffron Walden this week. The weather forecast threatened heavy rain but this proved to be pessimistic and no precipitation materialised. We were down on numbers with only 3 on the shorter walk but it was a decent walk as the topography is more undulating than many local areas and the pub is one of the best for food. We passed one of the largest bale stacks we have encountered with at least 2,400 bales and there were more fields ploughed than usual in this era of direct drilling.

 

 

Ploughing

 

 

Local Topography

 

 

 Large Bale Stack

 

 

Near Ashdon

 

In the evening, we had a Show committee meeting to review the recent show with the usual 20-point agenda!

On our outing to Tesco’s on Friday we met ex neighbour Lyn Medlock so stopped in Greggs for coffee and catch up with her.

Over were thrashed 5 v 1 in their first Saturday match of the season – a combination of a very young goal keeper, losing a key defender injured in the first 10 minutes and being hit by break away goals.

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

 

Mike & Kate