In the garden, we have a tree that James grew from a horse chestnut. For many years it was confined to a pot, but when we left Cambridge, we put it in the ground. This is it now
Towards the evening, we drove to our friends Rachel and Brian in Bar Hill and then ate at Sycamore House, our favourite Cambridge restaurant. As always, we had a super meal.
On Sunday, we went for a walk in Hayley Wood, an ancient wood near Little Gransden in Cambs to see the bluebells, cowslips, purple orchids, wood anemones, oxlips and other spring flowers.
We had lunch with the Blanning family and a couple who live partly in the US and partly in Cambridge. After lunch, we went out for a walk on Jesus Green and Midsummer Common with Nicky, our godson Tom, his sister Lucy and her friend Libby and Harry the dog who is a Patterdale Terrier.
It was interesting to see how the children have grown since we last saw them.
After all the rain there has been lately, the grass is very green and the ground is waterlogged in places.
On Monday, there was a celebration at the University Computer Laboratory to mark the founding 75 years ago. We had extended our stay in Cambridge so that Pat could attend.
First, we called in to see our neighbour Simon, who has a coffee shop in Gwydir Street. It was very busy with about 25 people in the cafe on a Monday morning.
We then headed for the city centre and some shopping - we had a list of items to take back with us to France before taking the bus to the Computer Laboratory at West Cambridge.
Pat really enjoyed seeing ex colleagues, some of whom she hadn't seen since her own retirement party.
Our final stop before Helen and Nick's was Colchester to drop off and pick up some bits at Jill and Terry Beacher's house in Colchester. They are friends from Thézan. We spent a happy few hours over supper with them before driving to London through dreadful rain.
Pat and John on tour
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