Wednesday 24 June.
I had a good night's sleep and felt quite refreshed when I got up and made our morning cup of tea. Later after breakfast while I washed up in the kitchen Moira tidied up around the house. The woman from Stutterford's, the removal company, was coming this morning to see what we wanted moving to Scotland. She arrived at 9:15 am and it didn't take her long to have a look at the small amount we now required shifting. She left us forms that we will have to complete if we accept her quotation. One was for insurance and the other for customs. We will get her estimate in a few days. Hopefully it wont be too much!
Once she left Moira saw Pat and borrowed lopers and secateurs from her. She wanted to cut back the hedges and bushes that have overgrown at the back yard. They have gone wild and reduced the space there considerably. I don't know what the gardener does but it isn't much around our house. I helped and then we had to cut up the pieces to fit them into the bin bags. I swept up the patio and yard afterwards, it is looking much better. There is still a large bush and hedging further round the side of the house that still needs trimming. That's for another day.
After an early lunch we got ready in our whites for a game of bowls. We were heading for the 'Tweni club today. When we got there it was only to find there was another competition on and though there was still social bowls to take place the president didn't know how many would be playing and couldn't guarantee us a game. We decided to head for Southport again instead. When we were leaving we saw Geoff who was just arriving and told him why we were going to Southport. He seemed annoyed and said that the social bowls took priority over competitions by club rules. I said it didn't matter but he probably went in and caused a fight about it. We were well out of the way.
We arrived at Southport in plenty of time to get our 'tabs in'. There seems to be a lot of people in the club that know us and remember us from when we played there before. It is a very friendly club. Today it was trips again but with a difference; after each 6 ends we changed position in order of play, so I started off playing skip, then I was lead and finishing off the final 6 ends as No 2. It was a good format and gave each player experience in different stages of the game. Moira was on another rink and playing pairs, she had a very good game and with her partner won easily. The game I was in was strange; at the break for tea we were leading 17-4. However, the tea must have refreshed our opponents as they fought back and it was touch and go at the final end, we won by one, 20-19. It was a very enjoyable match and I played well, the technique is coming back to me.
I had a beer in the club house afterwards. Moira was sitting with her partner from her pairs match, a Peter Anderson. He had run 6 Comrades Marathons. He had run for Germiston Callies and was one of the ones who started up Boksburg AC. We talked for a while about running and different races. Also we went through people we knew from running and there was a number from especially Boksburg that were common acquaintances, like Colin Bradley, Tommy Malone and Steve de Bod.
We got home at 5:30 pm and Moira quickly made the dinner before 6 pm in case there would be a power cut. Fortunately we didn't get one tonight. There wasn't anything on TV we wanted to watch so I had the radio on Classic FM while we both read. I just about finished my 'Rumpole' novel before getting to bed
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