22nd December 2024

 

Dear All,

Not too much to report this week as U3A classes were finished for the term and the garden was too wet for much activity. After swimming Monday I prepared a Merry “Deaths in 2024 Quiz!” On Tuesday I helped Kate with a chapel kitchen inventory for Insurance purposes then we installed and filled another water butt at the allotments. What gardening that has been possible consisted of digging up a currant bush and two roots of rhubarb and potting them up – the rhubarb for daughter’s gardens.

After serious discussion I was allowed to purchase a massive Christmas tree which stands about 2 feet tall but is potted up with its roots in tact – you could say that our Christmas decorations are not over the top this year!

We had our Christmas walk and lunch on Thursday. Kate and I walked from Madingley Park & Ride car park to the mid-point where we joined others for mulled wine and mince pies. The route took us past some unfamiliar buildings in a part of Cambridge which we do not often walk. After refreshments there was the traditional group photo. We then walked through the centre of Cambridge to La Mimosa, an Italian restaurant by the river Cam where about 40 of us enjoyed an excellent meal.

 

 

Slumberger HQ

 

 

 

Robinson College

 

 

The Class of 2024

 

 

River Cam

 

 

Kings College chapel

 

 

St Johns College

 

We called in on Carol Kitson on the way home as it was her birthday.

After Tesco’s on Friday I patched up the fruit cage at the allotment which had been damaged in the recent gales.

Saturday was Brussels Sprout day collecting 50 stems and a net from Wilden in Bedfordshire and breaking the back of the distribution with 41 visits!

We are likely to have a quiet Christmas as both daughters are with their in-laws but Ben is planning to bike up later today. We hope to all join up in Hove on Boxing Day.

 

Regards

Mike & Kate

PS Sister Mary has just phoned with the news that Cousin Peter Nunn passed away yesterday.