Garden Party to Celebrate 250th Anniversary of Addenbrooke's Hospital

Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge  was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College. To celebrate this anniversary, Mary, who has worked so hard for Addenbrookes in various roles, and Jeffery Archer invited ACT (Addenbrookes Charitable Trust) to hold an Evening Garden Party at the Old Vicarage, Grantchester. David Robinson, Chairman of ACT, compered the evening.It was wonderful to see the original documents from 1766 among with a book of notes by wounded soldiers from 1917.  There was music from around 1766 by a Baroque group, Keith Day ex-CEO of ACT seen here with the hospital Archivist,  gave an interesting speech about the history of Addenbrookes, and Mary Archer told us the history of the Old Vicarage with lots of amusing anecdotes. Earlier in the day the Archers had celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with a large lunch party so the final event of the evening was an auction of the beautiful table decoration run by Jeffery with his usual persuasive style.

Gamlingay Wood

It wasn't an ideal afternoon to view the Silver-Washed Fritillaries as it was mainly cloudy with a few sunny intervals during which the butterflies became active, retreating to the high trees when the sun went in. Enjoyed the glimpses that we got through the foliage and hope for better views later.

 

Butterflies in Toft Cambridgeshire

I feared the heavy rain overnight might have damaged the butterfly population in our local wood but was delighted to count more than 70 Marbled Whites and plenty of other species including Meadow Brown, Comma, Ringlet and Small Skipper in large numbers. Also couple of new Hoverflies for the collection.

 

Sadie at Bourn Ballet

I had the task on Saturday of photographing the Bourn School of  Ballet classes. These are of my grandaughter who very much enjoys the classes and gets into the role of ballerina.

Switzerland Day 7. - All Creatures Great and Small

 For our last day in Switzerland, we took the train to Wengen alp and then walked slowly down to Allemand. The cows had just been milked and were returning to the meadows to graze, The warmer weather had brought out all kinds of bugs including Robber Flies, Spiders, Hover and other Flies, and finally a Shield Bug

 

Switzerland Day 6. Eigergletsch Again!

We started the day by taking the cable car up to Mannlichen and spent an hour or so photographing there including this Spring Pasque flower and Trumpet Gentians. We travelled by gondola down to Grund and then round by train to Kleine Scheidegg and up to Eigergletsche where I walked the start of both the eiger Trail and the Ridge walk looking for high level flowers such as the Glacier Crowfoot (5th image). finally the walk down to Kleine Scheidegg produced lots of photos!