June
Teresa
continued to get good value from the spa at the Lygon Arms in Broadway: she has extended her activities from the pool
to the gymnasium, where they have a wide range of equipment. Her sessions now can include cycling and running,
all the while watching her favourite television programmes.
Some
of the gym equipment …
… the treadmills for running in left foreground
We
also continued to visit
We
so much enjoyed our visit to Malvern in May that we returned on Sunday 9 so we
could hear the brass band concert in full.
As before, we stopped off en route at a retail park to buy a picnic
lunch, but also portable chairs to sit in.
It was the turn of the
Alcester Victoria Silver Band, and we found a shady place to sit for
the two hour concert.
Roger,
well wrapped up in the shade
In the background, Malvern Theatres – Roger is on the steps
The
long-running saga of our leaky boiler continued following a letter to British
Gas. At the end of May, a senior
engineer visited and acknowledged what we had long suspected: that there was a fault in the boiler itself
contributing to the continuing loss of pressure. On Tuesday 11 two engineers returned to fix
it. Although we all hoped this would be
end to the problem, we soon noticed that another, more visible leak, had
developed as a result of the repair, and the engineer had to return on Friday
14 to fix this. Unfortunately, it
continued to seep, and the pressure continued to fall, so at the end of the
month we were still not sure whether our troubles were over.
Roger’s
main bowling interest during the month was the local Triples league, in which
the team had made a good start to the season, leading the table at the halfway
stage. On Sunday 23 there was also a
one-day tournament for teams in the league, held at the Aston Somerville club,
and won by the Bredon A rink.
On
Monday 24 Roger had his annual dental check-up.
Despite experiencing occasional twinges, he needed no major work this
year.