Year: 2016

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It was a “feeling lucky we live here” day when we went out for our walk. It is so pretty around our house, loads within walking distance. We had all those years in beautiful north Cyprus and now a lovely area in Kent.There was obviously a wedding at St Mildred’s church in the village yesterday.

In the afternoon Lou came round with Josie, Oscar and Ollie. Grandad stopped his exam work and did all sorts of crazy things with them!

Later we watched the football. Well done to Manchester United!

Thought for the Day – “Be soft, kind and loving. But also take nobody’s shit.”

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Our early morning walk took us past the horses who were obviously having a lazy morning! Ellie managed to paddle in the filthy stream when we weren’t concentrating on her! Sadly the bluebells in our wood are beginning to die off. The other photo is one of our neighbour’s flowering cherry tree, it has been a picture although some of the blossom is dropping now.

Mal spent the day assessing exam papers and in between complaining to the florist who should have sent me my birthday flowers. As well as that it is my sisters birthday next week and so I thought I would send her parcel by My Hermes. All organised online and there is a garage in Wingham that I could take it to, which I did yesterday afternoon. I went in the garage and people were complaining there was no petrol and the guy behind the counter was having a breakdown I think! I asked if he could take my My Hermes parcel and he said no he couldn’t and to leave! In fact he was really rude. So, we contacted My Hermes and said because my parcel wasn’t accepted then they could collect it. No they won’t!! So Mal has been on chat arguing with them as well. Meanwhile I had to go into Canterbury to drop the parcel off at a different place. It has gone now but it is still not resolved with My Hermes. I think I should have used the Post Office!

I was catching up with everything in the afternoon following our latest trip.

Thought for the Day – “Live life fully while you are here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just BE a perfect example of being human.” ~ Tony Robbins

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How typical of UK weather, we took Ellie out for her early morning walk and the sun was shining!  Never mind I had a lovely birthday and consider myself lucky to have reached this age, my dad died at 62, so I am lucky.

After breakfast we did more walking around Rye. It is so dangerous going in shops because they all seem to want to feed Ellie treats! Of course she doesn’t object.

Back to the hotel to check out and our last visit was to  Rye Bay fish shop. I love fish and so we bought a lot to take home, all freshly caught.

We had sea bass for dinner, it was so good!

Thought for the Day – “Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein

My birthday! Mal made me a cup of tea and then I opened all my presents and cards. I had some really lovely thoughtful gifts. As well as those evidently Mal ordered some flowers to be delivered on Monday and they didn’t arrive, not even by the time we left yesterday. He is not happy about it. He also managed to leave all his charging leads at Torin’s. He quickly ordered a new lead from Amazon to be collected from Rye Post Office! He can’t function without his laptop as all his exam work is on it!

Breakfast in the hotel and then we took Ellie out for a very long walk. We then went round the antique shops and the historical places.

Then it started raining, heavy rain so we went into a pub and had a drink and then tried to decide where we could dash to for lunch. The cosiest place on a wet birthday where we knew we could take Ellie was “Edith’s House”, the same place we went the previous day. They make Ellie so welcome ! She just lies down by our table. This time we managed to get the two arm chairs at the back where all the books are. It’s a funny place they even have lots of games you can play and even a bag of knitting if you fancy doing some! It’s usually sunny on my birthday!

Back to the hotel and then in the evening we went to have my birthday dinner at Ambrette. It is a lovely restaurant, with tasters and teasers between each course (very posh!!) They have received so many awards. Excellent food, especially all the fish I had and a good wine along with it. We left Ellie in the room but Mal finished his meal with the cheese board, the best one he has ever had he said, and brought Ellie a piece back for her!!

A lovely birthday,
Thought for the Day – “Life is too short to be counting the years. Just enjoy the ride and make awesome memories.”

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I saw that Alfie Boe and Michael Ball are touring together later in the year. I like both of them and certainly wanted to see Alfie Boe (I have seen Michael Ball fairly recently). Tickets are not on sale to the general public until Friday but I managed to get us good tickets for London. I was sooo pleased that I have them!!

Off on our travels again after walking Ellie. She looked a little pained that we were packing again but she was fine as soon as she knew she was going with us. This time a couple of days in Rye. We have driven through often and stopped for a drink now and again. It’s a lovely place, so now  we have a hotel stay.

We stayed at the Hope and Anchor and arrived just at the right time as parking is horrendous around the cobbled streets but I managed to squeeze in the last space outside the hotel where it is permit parking only. The hotel provides the permit. We had a walk around Rye and stopped at “Edith’s House” which is a dog friendly quirky tea rooms. To be honest we were going to sit outside until they told us dogs were welcome inside. Ellie just lays under the table anyway and is no bother. We ordered drinks and then decided to stay for lunch as it was so nice and friendly.

 

We had a long walk around Rye.

In the evening we had dinner at The Queen’s Head where they had a ukelele band playing. They even let Ellie in the restaurantbut as I have said before she just lies under the table. There were three other dogs in the bar!

 

Thought for the Day – “You never know what someone is going through. A few nice words can help a person a lot more than you think.”

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Torin left very early for work so we took the three dogs out and then drove back home.  Lou and Rhys popped round as soon as we arrived home and then I went off with the Red Hatters to the Charles Dickens in Broadstairs for lunch. We always have such a laugh together and the food was good too.

Thought for the Day – “One day your heart will stop beating and none of your fears will matter. What will matter is how you lived.” ~ Henri Juntila

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I dropped Mal off at Warwick Uni and then spent the rest of the day at Kenilworth Castle.

Then back to Torin’s for the night.

Thought for the Day – “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer