September
On Tuesday/Wednesday
2-3 we visited
Jay took a driving
test on Monday 8, but failed, unluckily we thought, because of undue hesitancy. Another has been booked for January.
On a happier note,
she has had a few singing lessons as a follow-up to her choir course last
month, and has really enjoyed them. She
has been singing in a choir at college, and
hopes to find one locally that she can join just in the vacations.
We did a couple of
quizzes in the month – one in Alderton, run by the
local consortium of parish churches: in
the equivalent quiz last year we had come second. This time, in our usual team, plus Juliet who
also joined us, we managed to win against a slightly smaller field. Later in the same week we went to a charity
quiz at the pub across the road: disappointingly,
a small turnout and, from our point of view, a preponderance of film, TV and
pop questions. The winning team were way
ahead, while we trailed in second equal with several other teams who had
obviously also struggled.
On Sunday 21 Roger’s outdoor
bowling season ended with the closing of the green. A beautiful day for weather, and a good one
for Roger, who collected two runner-up trophies for his success in the club
competitions, and a bottle of wine for being on the winning rink after the day’s
roll up.
The following day, we
took Jay to the
On Monday 29 we took
Jay to