30th August 2026

 

           Dear All,

Last Sunday was the annual chapel picnic at the Manderson Trust fishing lakes. There was some initial doubt about it as one of the lakes was being partially drained to allow weed to be removed but it did not interfere with the picnic with a good turnout of 35, sunny weather and free ice creams.

 

 

 

 

   The Burrell family came to the picnic then departed for home in Norwich and we were left to assess the damage and rearrange the furniture!

Emma suffered a serious accident on Sunday while helping her mother sort her loft – she fell and was in considerable pain breaking her tibia and fibia and bruising her hip. Initially she was due to be sent to a London hospital for treatment but this did not materialise and it took until Thursday before a 7 hour operation in Basildon hospital.

 

Highlight of my week was taking delivery of two loads of FYM from Les Cook. It is good quality and well-rotted and I have already dug in a decent area – but gently of course!

Wednesday lunch time we were summoned to Norman and Rosemary’s to help celebrate their 65^th wedding anniversary.

We had our first decent rain for a long time on Thursday and already you can see the difference.

I have harvested 3 good melons this week and several Aubergines.

 

 We had a surprise delivery of flowers from Kate’s brother Philip this week.

 

 

Ben is on his travels again this time to Lichtenstein.

 

 

 

Lichtenstein

 

Over were held to a goalless draw yesterday in a match which ended in an absolute cloudburst

 

Best Wishes

 

Mike & Kate