We are clearly heading into Autumn now. It's getting colder. At the end of the month, the Friends of Grange Gardens had a work-day and we ended up shovelling a lot of leaves!
Speaking of leaves... I had a week's annual leave and we spent it in Shropshire. Our week started with a lengthy wait in an A&E because Cathy had a poorly leg. But it got better after that. We had a night in Wolverhampton on our wedding anniversary and went to a Terrorvision gig - read my blog post here. And we had some nice times with family and pootling around Shrewsbury, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock.
I also did quite a bit of travelling for work, including going up to North Wales to attend a charity fashion show, and a midweek two-day trip to London. The train journey to London was chaotic due to a fatality on the line at Didcot, so I ended up diverted to Bristol Temple Meads. It meant I saw some different bits of the railway network than I normally do.
Football-wise I went to four games this month. I've blogged about my double dose of "Corinthian" football in the middle of the month. I also saw Cardiff Draconians play a cup match and made my first visit of the season to the Meadow to watch a Shrewsbury home game. I was in the safe standing section with my friend Jim and his son Nikolai.
When we were teenagers, Jim and I used to stand on the Wakeman End at Shrewsbury's old ground, Gay Meadow. So it was a bit of a throwback to thirty years ago when we both had more hair and possibly more optimism about Shrewsbury's chances of winning. With a bit of luck we might well still be watching football together in another thirty years time.
My Futbology totals at the end of September:
