Month: May 2011

I was awake at 5.00 am and so Rosie and I went out for a walk.  Next job was to clean the pool as it was full of dust. One clean but I think it will have to be done again tomorrow. I looked all round the garden to see what had to be done and started dead heading the plants. Something has been methodically munching my rose bush leaves. I caught one of them in the act! You can see all the brown dust over the leaves, my car is covered in it too!

I must have still felt ill as I went to lie on the bed at 2.30 as I felt so tired and I didn’t wake up until 5! In the evening when the sun went down I washed the car.

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Thought for the Day – “Judge each day not  by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Mal made me breakfast and I finished packing and headed off for Stansted and left Mal behind to do his exam work. I returned the Hertz car, no problems. We had a Seat Leon and I have to say it was the most comfortable drivers seat. The amount of miles I drive I usually end up with back ache. Not this time. It was diesel and I was a bit shocked that the cheapest diesel is now £1.40.

The plane took off half an hour late but made up the time. I was chatting to a very nice girl on the plane who was coming for her first holiday in North Cyprus. She made me laugh when she said she thought the Pegasus plane was a bit like Easyjet! Perhaps I have just got used to it.

Chris met me at the airport and drove me home. I collected Rosie and she was glad to see me but had been chewing her leg while she was in the kennels. I guess boredom must have set in, poor thing.

While I was away there was a heavy rain/dust storm and everything had the dust baked on and the swimming pool didn’t look too healthy! My car was also covered. I rang Mal, unpacked and got to bed well after midnight. It was 26 degrees at midnight.

Mal spent more time working on websites. I never want to see another one again, except of course I have to thank him for getting ‘ontheisland’ back. It is so much work it is unbelieveable. When we had the attack , they were making tens of thousands of hits per second.

Later we went to Tesco to do a mammoth shop for Mal as I am leaving tomorrow.  More computer work for him when we arrived back. We were going out for lunch and it got later and later, he was ‘just doing one more thing’. We went into Herne Bay and planned to eat at ‘Le Petit Poisson’, which has an excellent reputation and I love fish. By the time I once again dragged him out and we were in Herne Bay it had shut!

Instead we went to ‘The Saxon Shore’ and had a huge roast lunch each, including a drink it was £5.99 and as it is my last day if we added sweet it was an extra £1.99..we did!

Then we had a walk along the sea front to walk our lunch off.

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Another day with Mal on the computer, trying to move all of our websites. I went to Westwood Cross shopping. It is usually packed on a Saturday, a sign of the times perhaps, no queue to get in the car park and plenty of parking spaces.

I must be feeling better as I actually found some things that I wanted.

In the afternoon I decided to drag Mal out which he needed and so we went into Broadstairs. It’s a lovely town and it was such a nice sunny day. Don’t you just love the cinema and the price of ENGLISH potatoes?!

They had a huge screen on the beach and the camera was scanning round all afternoon and then in the evening they were going to show a film on the beach.

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Mal worked in the morning and I went into Margate shopping. I have to say the town centre there isn’t what it used to be as Westwood has taken over.

Rhys called and said he had been to the doctors as he has been so ill and he has tonsilitis and swollen glands and so has antibiotics. I do feel bad as it is obviously our germs that we shared.

In the afternoon we drove to Grove Ferry and then on to Reculver. It was really nice and warm.

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A quiet day! Well, for me. Mal was still sorting out websites and doing some of his exam work.

I hit the shops, pleased to see that Debenhams had a sale on.

Now Mal has managed to get ‘ontheisland’ back up and running, I spent ages catching up and trying to remember what we have done.

In the evening we went to Harvester for our dinner.

It was my birthday!

Mal brought me a cup of tea in bed and I opened my presents and cards. He  gave me a Kindle. I know he is fed up with keep bringing me loads of paperbacks back with him! A really good present, it will make my luggage allowance go further too.  He also put some new books on it for me.

Last years birthday Lou and Rhys gave me a Red Letter day, a Thames lunch cruise and a trip on the London Eye. It has taken all this time to book it because every time I was in the country the places had already been taken. Finally Mal complained and they gave us priority booking and it just so happened I managed to get it on this years birthday.

We went to London by train, down to the Embankment and boarded for our lunchtime cruise. I don’t want to sound un patriotic but it doesn’t compare to the trip down the Bosphorous! However the cruise was good and we both enjoyed it and lunch. We were then given the tickets for the Eye and the boat dropped us off. We were just about to queue up when we realised the Eye wasn’t moving. It had broken down! At least I was glad that we hadn’t arrived a bit earlier and were stuck at the top.

We were told to queue up and they would give us a refund. We queued for an hour only for them to tell us as we hadn’t bought the tickets from them we had to go back to the boat people and ask them for the refund. I still wasn’t feeling well and having spoken to Rhys, he now had ‘the bug’ and a sore throat.  We crossed the Thames and back to the boat people. No they couldn’t give us a refund as it was booked through Red Letter days! By this time we were getting really fed up. London is not my favourite place, so we went and had a drink, followed by Covent garden and then on to China Town and then the train back home.

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Thought for the Day – “We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. ” ~ Lauren Hutton