1^st June 2025

 

           Dear All,

We attended an ex NIAB lunch at Girton Golf Course on Tuesday and enjoyed our first decent shower of the month. On Wednesday we decided to visit Sandringham as we had barely seen it before – perhaps a brief call about 50 years ago. We took Norman Ingle and Adrian Hart to fill the car.We were agreeably surprised by how good the gardenes were, neatly cared for by 17 gardeners! The trees were especially healthy. The king and queen failed to make an appearance!

 

 

Sandringham Front view

 

 

Sandringham Rear view

 

 

Herb Bed

 

 

Maze

 

 

Cornus Kousa Chinensis – Chinese Dogwood

 

 

HRH’s Daimler

 

 

Sandringham Lake

 

View of House from Lake

 

We heard that Sophie Bridgeman died on Wednesday. Our Thursday walk started at Hail Weston just beyond St Neots and took in the Staunton’s and Dillington. It was rather windy but otherwise OK with plenty of flowers in view.

 

 

Pigeon Loft Barn

 

 

Ox Eyed Daisies

 

 

River Kym

Friday morning was cricket pitch preparation and fortunately all the machinery has been repaired and was working well. In the evening we attended Over Players Presentation of the musical  ”Calendar Girls”. We didn’t know quite what to expect but it an excellent performance with some brilliant singers – and all handled very tastefully!

 

 

Saturday saw us back at the Norris Museum in St Ives leading a chapel visit. Numbers were low but it was a decent outing followed by coffee and cakes at “Toms”.

 

 

Fossils

 

 

Hands On Activities – for the children!

 

 

Bronze Age Axes

 

 

Attendees

 

As a measure of how old I am this is a photo of twins Adrian and Adriana in 2006 during my first visit to Moldova. This week they graduated from High School!.

 

 

2006

 

 

2025

 

The garden is producing well despite the dry weather and badger attention. This week we started new potatoes and mange tout peas as well as strawberries coming on stream.

 

 

Potato – Lady Chrystal

 

 

Best wishes

Mike & Kate