October – November
- December
Teresa and Jay were in Portugal for the week of 1 -
8 October, at their usual villa in
Albufeira. At home, Roger had plenty of
bowls as the indoor season got underway at
On Sunday 20 October we went across the road for the
Quiz night at our local pub, held once a month.
We enjoy quizzes, but find pub quizzes quite challenging as we are not
good at the picture round, and are totally at sea on the music round – either
not our era or, if it is, too long ago to remember. However, we generally went with another
bowling couple, who made up for some of our deficiencies, as did Sam and Jay or
Helen if they were available. We aimed
for at least a respectable score, and once managed to finish as high as fifth
place.
On 1 November Teresa spent the night in
December was a busy month – Teresa as usual was
organising Christmas and the run-up thereto.
On Saturday 14 she and Jay went to a performance of The Messiah in Tewkesbury Abbey, while on the following day
Both Roger’s and Jay’s cars needed their annual MOT
and service, while Roger was troubled by one or two minor medical issues –
quickly sorted out by our local practice from which we get very good service.
Some moments from our Christmas celebrations are
captured here.
We brought in the New Year with a drink and a chorus
of ‘Auld Lang Syne’, time shifted as usual so we were not up too late. We little knew then what 2020 had in store.