Walnut Avenue

Another grand early autumn day down in Kent. A fine walk around Mote Park and the Golf Course this morning was paid for with a busy afternoon and evening.

First there was a Computing Working Group meeting at school which was followed an hour and a half later by a Governors Training meeting all about "Narrowing the Gap" in achievement which went on until 8.00pm.

The training was a bit of a curate's egg, good in parts but largely (to keep this analagy going) teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. I knew we were in for a turgid evening when the presenter said that he was assuming we knew nothing about the subject of Vulnerable Children and so would start from the beginning. He also read from his copious Power Point slides.

Inbetween meetings I called in at the nearby farm shop to get some pickling onions to begin the process of making next year's supply of pickled onions. Also purchased some corn on the cob which went very well before the courgette and cheddar soup that we had when I eventually got home.

The extra is another in the series marking the 100th anniversary of the death of a soldier from Bearsted in the Great War