Saturday 22nd June
Oooooh, we were late up today, 8-45 am! I did wake up about 7 am but decided to have another ‘5 minutes’. A bonus for me about getting up late on a Saturday is I don’t have to suffer so much of Sounds of the 60’s! After Ken had looked at the news and waited for the Weather forecast to come on there was less than an hour of it left, hurrah!
There had been heavy rain over night but this had passed over by the time we were ready to go out although it was still really windy. We went to Leamington Spa again today, Ken needed new trainers as his were starting to come apart inside. We got some half price (£45) in Mountain Warehouse. When we went for a walk later he took his old ones off and put them in a bin, a tramp may be glad of them he said (although he kept the laces!) and put his new ones on.
We went in the Royal Pump Room And Baths Museum and Art Gallery which was very interesting. There are some wonderful artifacts in there including a wooden assagai and an African wooden pillow (not very comfortable I would think)! The art gallery is worth a look housing some very good paintings and some very bad (IMHO) ones. Of course there is also the exhibition about the history of the baths.
After the museum we went for a walk in Jephson Gardens across the road from the Pump Rooms, named after Henry Jephson, a doctor who popularised the spa waters in the 1800’s. This is where Ken disposed of his redundant footwear! The River Leam runs through the gardens and there is a fountain, a lake, a palm house and other things of interest. Unfortunately Ken was really suffering with his hay fever today so this excursion didn’t do him much good.
We had to go in the Wetherspoons, so he could recover, obviously. I have a cleaning day planned for tomorrow as I have not done any lately. I am hoping it isn’t going to be raining – so himself can get out of the way. And so is he!
