February
This month saw the annual
Pate’s Grammar School trivia quiz. We
entered with the same team as last year.
We left a bit unsure about our final placing, though we think that it was
third. Unusually, the winners were a
student team, and we think another team of parents was second, possibly last
year’s winners, but we’re not sure about that – it was all quite close.
Teresa had her final session
with the ophthalmologist: her sight was
assessed as back to normal and she has been cleared to drive again.
Jay spent a week away in
While she was away, Roger
mowed the grass for the first time this year, and made the mistake of observing
that the worst of the winter was over.
Almost immediately the long cold spell started, though fortunately
without very much snow in Gloucestershire.
We also visited a couple of
old churches near North Leach – at Coln St Dennis and Coln Rogers respectively
– click here for our report.
At the end of the month, at
the insistence of Jay, we went to a demonstration by the ‘horse-whisperer’,
Monty Roberts, at