April

We had a good Easter, with Helen home for a few days. On Friday 2 we took her and Jay to a large and recently refurbished garden centre in Moreton-in-Marsh – ‘garden centre’ being something of an understatement as they have a range of other offerings – clothes, furniture, kitchenware, gifts etc plus a small café.

Fosseway Garden Centre

The following day, in contrast, to our Saturday market in the village hall where once a month villagers bring local produce to sell, run charity stalls and have a cake and coffee. Incidentally, the village website has been redesigned and you can see Roger at his short mat bowling evening.

On Sunday 6 Helen attended the wedding of an old school friend at the Dumbleton Hall Hotel, just a few miles down the road from Toddington.

Indoor bowling came to an end, with last games at Malvern on 7, Littleton on 8 and short mat on 16. Overbury opened its green on Sunday 18, and we were blessed by a glorious day’s sunshine and not even a trace of the chill breeze usually present at this time of year. There was a record turn-out with 62 members playing on eight slightly narrow rinks – the most we can squeeze in. The bowling was followed by the usual bring and share tea. And, as a bonus, Roger’s rink won the small prize for the day’ winning rink. Roger’s league bowling began on Tuesday 27, disappointingly, with a defeat.

Tewkesbury Borough Council introduced its new re-cycling programme this month. We now have a green wheelie for land-fill waste, a blue wheelie for re-cycled waste (currently glass and plastic bottles, drink and food cans, paper and cardboard), each emptied fortnightly on alternate Tuesdays (in our case) plus a waste food container emptied every week – the latter can include meat and dairy products, baked and cooked left-overs and any other food matter you would not want on your garden compost heap.

We took Jay back took Oxford on Tuesday 20 for her final term. She was, of course, revising furiously for Finals which were to begin on 10 May.

The near-by GWR had one of its ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ week-ends on 24/25, and, as usual, Teresa ambushed it in the cutting just north of the station as it moved from the rear to the head of the train.

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