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Another warm day in Ely and after a nice light breakfast John and Bozena took us on a tour of Ely.
First stop was to be the The Prince Albert, an award winning Real Ale house with a tasty mild beer. To get there we walked in to the city centre past houses that had been there for a long time, arriving at the Ely Cathedral and the greens. From the Cathedral we wandered to the The Prince Albert where we had lunch and a pint of mild, their dark beer outside of Guinness sitting outside in the garden eating lunch with the local clergy and Binx the staffy.
Teresa was shown a nest of baby black birds in the smokers shed so got some photos of the baby birds with there beaks wide open wanting food.
After lunch we wandered around the outskirts of Ely, down to the river Ouse where we watched a rowing eight launch for a training session and saw all the canal boats moored up.
The men had a snow freeze ice cream as we wandered the river bank, walked into an antique store with a photo board of people who have been banned from entering.
We had afternoon tea at The Almonry, which is part of the Cathedral grounds, before walking back home where John got changed into whites for a reason that we would find out later.
Sitting outside in the garden enjoying the sun shine John finally revealed the reason for the whites by bringing out Boules. After a little practice a full on England resident v nz game was on with the first game a complete white wash with nz losing 5-0, the second game was a different story where we rushed out to a 4-0 after the first end only to be told that house rules apply and that it's only one point let game. The rain that had been promised finally arrived leaving the score at 2-2 as we rushed to cover everything over as the showers were really heavy.
John and Owen where very smug with there win and john casually mentioning the win through dinner as we ate our Plaice, guernsey new potatoes and salad with quails eggs.
The rest of the night was spent talking and watching Lewis on the tv.
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Alex and Janet Hi Guys, sounds like you have got much better weather there than we did a month ago, hope all is going to plan, your baby is settled and seems like just one of the family (at least the humpping has stopped) she is a treat to have so quiet and friendly, Bo loves her to bits and they sleep togeather at the foot of the bed. The weather here is starting to get cold but nice a fine. Take care will catch up again soon.