15:00 Lois and I pay for a treat for our guests, our daughter Sarah and family, newly arrived back from Australia, by booking them a family-of-four "Waves and Slide" session at the local Malvern Splash Leisure Complex. The complex looks a bit unprepossessing from the outside, but is quite impressive when you're actually inside it!
Malvern Splash Leisure Complex
We ourselves, Lois and I, watch the fun from a table in the entrance café, which is a very civilised option in my view, and entirely free - we weren't even pressured by the café staff to buy anything to eat or drink, which is very refreshing these days! Nevertheless we decide to get some orange-and-passion-fruit juice drinks, so I expect we'll find we're both be a bit "hyper" when we're trying to get to sleep tonight - oh dear!
Lois gets some juice drinks from the counter
while I settle down at a table to view the pool
Lois and I stay in the café, and get our fix of
orange-and-passion fruit juice: nice now, but there'll be trouble
getting to sleep tonight, no doubt about that!
Meanwhile there's lots of fun going on in the pool area, although Lois and I aren't there in time to witness the tumultuous "Wave Session" - damn!
(left to right) Sarah, Francis, Jessica and Lily,
as highlighted by my graphics team (i.e. me)
Lily comes to the poolside path to say Hi to us, which is nice!
Jessica and Lily (right) wait to come down the chute
Lily says hi again, after the chute experience, which is a nice surprise!
19:00 We settle down to watch the Coronation Concert from Windsor Castle. There's nothing like one of these royal-associated concerts for making Lois and me realise that we're well and truly past it, not knowing who the singers are, or, if we do know them, not recognising their songs: songs which the audience seem to know by heart and regard as "anthems" etc, even when to Lois and me they sound completely banal and ordinary - my goodness, we're getting old, no doubt about that!
Three artists Lois and I are familiar with from ancient, past hits - Steve Winwood and Lionel Richie, also Take That although we never thought that Take That were anything special: it's an "age thing" again, no doubt about that!
Steve Winwood ("Bring Me A Higher Love") - you wouldn't recognise him for being a former rock star: he could be somebody you see working in an office, for example. and his slight Birmingham accent comes out clearly, which is nice - who would have thought it eh?
Lionel Richie ("Easy Like Sunday Morning" and "All Night Long") is dressed more "rocktastically", no doubt about that.
Steve Winwood and Lionel Richie go right over the twins' heads, needless to say. And soon their attention starts to wander - they are starting to flag, that's for sure.
The twins perk up, however, when Katy Perry comes on - surprisingly the twins recognise her two songs, "Roar" and "Firework", which Lois and I have never heard of: no surprise there. My goodness! Sarah says that the choir at the twins' old school, Immaculate Heart College, in Perth, Australia, performed "Roar" at a school concert, and the twins know all the words. Who would have guessed that?!
It's getting late now and even Lois and I are starting to yawn. Oh dear! Come back Sir Rod Stewart, all is forgiven haha!
Time for bed - no doubt about that!
22:00 Zzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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