On Friday 29th June I was priviledged to be one of 7 people to be invited to a meeting with His Excellency Mr Vygaudas Usackas, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania who was on a 2 day visit to South Holland as a guest of South Holland District Council.
The purpose of the ambassadors visit was to gain an insight into the area and businesses that his countrymen are now living and working. His Excellency had a private meeting with a number of prominent business men from the Agricultural, Horticultural and Food manufacturing sectors. The meeting was held at the University of Lincoln Holbeach Campus, and we then accompanied the Ambassador on a tour of the Campus facilities.
You can hear more on the visit by going to Terry Huggins blog at www.terryhuggins.me.uk and downloading his June Podcast.

On Sunday 1st July Gill and I went up to Cumbria for a few days belated honeymoon. We stayed at a superb hotel, The Lovelady Shield Hotel just outside Alston high in the North Pennines. The weather, as elsewhere, was not all that we had hoped for, but I guess we were lucky that it seemed to rain at dinner time, all through the night into breakfast time, but the days themselves were not to bad although sunburn was never going to be a problem!
We had a couple of days in the lakes visiting favourite haunts, a day touring Kielder and into Scotland, and a day at Beamish open air museum. It is a disconcerting part of growing older that whenever you visit a museum, there are more and more things as exibits that make you say " I had one of those" or "I remember that!"
Pics on http://picasaweb.google.com/nigel.burch

We have a busy few weeks coming up, next week is the Seamaster Rally, the weekend after that Tatton Park flower show, and the weekend after that my cousin Rob's 60th birthday, will have to dig the flares and stack heels out!

Due to the weather we have had little chance to spend time on the boat, and with the exception of next weekend, it will be August before we get down there again.