September
Jay and Teresa continued to spend Sundays at local shows. On 4 at Allens Hill, Jay again entered the One Day Event, and surpassed her previous achievement by winning. Good old Clyde went clear in both show jumping and cross country yet again.
Jay on Clyde in the One Day
Event
A change the following
weekend, joining a group of entrants from her stables at the Buckland and
Laverton annual show, just down the road from us. Country shows like this attract mainly experienced riders, so Jay
did well to pick up a rosette for a minor place in a dressage class, and
otherwise Clyde was given a quiet day.
Jay went back to school
on 6 to start her Sixth Form studies – Biology, Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics, the latter probably just to AS level.
Roger’s outdoor bowls
season came to an end, mowing the green for the last time on 3, last match
played on 17 and the closing of the green and presentation of prizes on
18. However, this year he has the
chance of continuing to bowl indoors in the winter, having been invited to join
a Thursday morning league at the Manor Park indoor facility in Malvern. He had a practice roll-up there on 28, and
also filled in for someone at another nearby indoor rink at Littleton near
Evesham.
On a more intellectual
note, there was another quiz night at the bowls club on 15, at which Roger and
Teresa, together with another couple, successfully defended their title, I’m
pleased to say. It was, though, only by
virtue of a tie-break question. This
was ‘what is a willy-willy’. We
were stumped, but our friends knew it was a wind in Australia, giving us the
winning point.
The church of St John the Baptist
in Beckford
Roger and Teresa saw
another couple of local churches, at Overbury and Beckford. Overbury was of special interest, as it is
where Roger plays bowls, and there were some familiar names on the walls. A most interesting binder to record the
activities of the village for the Millennium year included a page on the bowls
club and photographs of the team in 1999.
It would not be autumn
without the annual plumbing problem – signs of a leak in the downstairs
cloakroom. As last year, the source is
not immediately obvious and we await the plumber’s visit for a diagnosis.
Our visit to Overbury