7th December 2025
Dear All,
After
we attended the combined Advent Service at the C of E last Sunday night Kate
really struggled to walk home as her ankle, knee and hip were all hurting. She
has had some discomfort for some time but this was much worse. It has varied in
intensity during the week and a doctor’s appointment involves a wait of 2
weeks!
10
Turning Points in European History this week covered 1848 National Revolutions
in various countries throughout the continent due to:
1.
Population
growth
2.
Urbanisation
and poor social conditions
3.
Better
communications
4.
Harvest
failures e.g. Irish Potato famine
5.
Dissatisfaction
with absolute rulers
6.
Educated
middle class getting involved with politics
France,
Austria and Italy were used as examples. Britain was not affected because we
had The Great Reform Act, a popular monarch and a Chartist protest meeting of
150,000 dispersed because it began to rain!
Jenny
has been for dinner most nights as Tony is still in Addenbrookes given only
days to live.
I
managed to finish slicing up the fallen tree on Tuesday and we made a trip to
Bluntishan Tip on Wednesday afternoon only to find that it had closed 5 minutes
before we arrived. We had more successful journey on Thursday!
Tree Trimmings
As
Kate was not up to walking on Thursday I did a short walk round Over Fen. There
was a remarkable number of livestock in evidence.
Duce’s Pond, Fen
End, Over
English White
Cattle
Herefords
Kerry Hills
Sheep
Stabiliser
cattle
After
we did the Tesco’s shop and met ex NIAB colleague Simon Kightley who has just
become a grandfather for the first time as well as Cathy Wright and Margery
Johnson.
The
Biographies subject was John Logie Baird who is credited with inventing
Television. He was entirely self-taught and dismissed as an eccentric
“Radionutter” but persisted despite many setbacks and eventually founded the
first TV Company.
John Logie Baird
I
managed some digging this week between the showers and Broad beans and over
wintered Alliums are looking OK.
Broad Beans
& Alliums
Overs
1st team match was off as the Hemingford pitch was too wet so I
watched the Reserves beat Fenstanton 3 v 1.
Best
wishes
Mike
& Kate
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