8th December 2024

 

Dear All,

Swimming continues to be hit or miss as we arrived at Impington to find the pool closed due to a boiler failure.

Balkans this week was Albania part 2 and North Macedonia which like many countries in the area has a huge mix of nationalities.

 

 

Samuel Fort, Ohrid, North Macedonia

 

“Eat Well” included Kidney problems, Mental Illness, Coffee and Lycopene. Evidently 2 cups of coffee a day are good for you but more becomes problematic.

We walked on Tuesday this week starting at Nuthampstead which was a US airbase in World War II and took in Barkway which was on the stage coach route to London and Reed. It did not rain but there were areas of mud.

 

 

The Woodman, Nuthampstead

 

 

War Memorial

 

 

Memorial Plaque

 

I had a RSV jab on Wednesday which made me feel a bit achy for a couple of days. Later I met up with Kate & Gordon and Paul and Annette Davies in an Italian Restaurant in Ely. Paul works for the Albanian Evangelical Mission and I am trying to arrange a meeting for him with our “Balkans” lecturer.

On Thursday, Lawrie Gray came to help me sort the seed donated by Fothergill’s for Moldova. We managed to catalogue 650 vegetable packets – just the flower seed to go! I managed a little gardening in the afternoon swapping a gooseberry bush with rhubarb and removing the peppers from the top Greenhouse and mucking and digging the area.

Biographies topic this week was Shirley Williams and being a Cambridge audience about half the class had met her in person!

 

 

Dame Shirley Williams of Crosby

Kate went to visit Marjorie Johnson who had a fall and ended up badly bruised with a sore back and is now in a recovery home in Cambridge.

All local football was cancelled on Saturday so it was serious Christmas card writing and Compilation dispatching. We managed a bracing walk round Over Fen.

 

 

Fen End

 

 

Cook’s cattle

 

 

Burling’s Bulls

Regards

Mike & Kate