April
Teresa – Riding – Bowls
- Quizzes – Warwick – Moreton-in-Marsh
Teresa has been spending more time writing: she has always written well, but usually for
the benefit of family and friends.
Though she has had several letters published in The Guardian and
has nearly always got her birthday dedications read out on Classic FM.
However, the favourable reception of her web-log about her experiences
as a ‘pony-mum’ has moved her to try and produce something similar for
publication in book form. At the same
time, she has been looking at women’s magazines, and submitting some shorter
pieces, which, she hopes, may match their readers’ requirements. According to a soon-to-be-published author
she has met on a web writers’ forum, you can expect to get about 70 rejection
slips before eliciting any kind of interest from a publisher.
Imagine her excitement, then, to find that one of her first half-dozen
or so submissions has been accepted for publication by The People’s Friend. Well done, Teresa. We are all crossing our fingers for further
success.
On Sunday 2, Juliet and
The following Sunday, 9 April, it was show jumping at Allens Hill. Good old
Roger’s indoor bowling season came to an end,
with the final game at Malvern leaving his team in mid-table in their Thursday
morning league; at Littleton, however, wins had been scarce, and his team ended
up propping up the league table.
The outdoor season began on Sunday 16, with a club fun day on a still
heavy green. The weather was kind, but
the rabbits, which visited briefly last year, have been back again, and no
longer seem deterred by the bottles of water we put down last year. Let’s hope that they will do no further
damage now the club is used regularly.
Roger also renewed his acquaintance with the club mower. He negotiated the damaged part of the green
successfully, and was just getting into the swing of the main part when the
accelerator cable broke, so that was that.
Luckily, it was such a cold week that very little grass had grown
anyway.
On Friday 21, Quiz Night at the bowls club,
which Roger and Teresa had volunteered to run, their first such venture (though
Teresa has a great deal of experience setting quizzes on her board). Roger acted as question master and Juliet
completed the team as scrutineer. The
questions were probably a little easier than usual, but this seemed to go down
well, as most teams were able to post high scores. The winners were our former team, which comprised
just three people: Roger’s bowling
friend and the couple who run his home village quizzes. They obviously managed very well without us.
Roger
preparing for the bowls club quiz
But to complete an amazing coincidence with satisfying symmetry, the
following evening just happened to be their village quiz, and this time Teresa
and Roger joined our bowling friend to form a team of three, and managed to
win. Our friend, of course, could be
very pleased with his double success.
Earlier in the day, we had made the first of Juliet’s exploratory
university visits – to
A land mark for Roger. This month
he collected his bus pass. Teresa has
also discovered that a bus runs past the door every week to a traditional
market in Moreton-in-Marsh – the fare is subsidised by the market. On Tuesday 25, we visited together: very useful.
Branches of our bank and building society, plus a large selection of
market stalls, all available within a hundred yards, no parking problems and
even a Tesco Express.
