Tuesday 21st February 2017

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After Ellie’s walk, I went shopping at Westwood.

Mal chose to stay at home.  He doesn’t like shopping! Someone has to get the food and I did manage to find a new top and jeans.

It was still nice weather in the afternoon and so I worked on the back garden. Mal continued computer work.

Thought for the Day – “I am neither clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.” ~ Albert Einstein

Monday 20th February 2017

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My day at Demelza. I walked in and Heather was serving, Jack was busy and so was Linda so I was asked to sort someone out who wanted to look at wedding dresses and yes, I sold another one. That was a good start to the day seeing as I had hardly taken my coat off.

We had all children’s clothes, ladies shoes and boots half price and all soft toys 50p! Well, I thought at that price it was time to buy another couple for spares for Ellie! Well, four new ones actually even though her original ones are still in good condition!


Jack was really pleased I bought some as we had so many but we had to laugh because later one of our trustees arrived with 7 bags of donations which included two huge Ikea bags packed full of even more teddy bears!

Thought for the Day – “Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” ~ Karen Salmohn

Sunday 19th February 2017

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After breakfast we took Ellie to Minnis Bay, it was so nice down there and I think Ellie’s favourite place as she runs around with all the other dogs. It’s a bit of a dogs paradise.


She also likes chasing the oyster catchers. It was so clear today you could even see Reculver in the distance.

Mal then went off to his allotment to do some planting.

In the afternoon we watched the Spurs game. Well done Spurs.

Thought for the Day – You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday 18th February 2017

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Another lovely day so a long walk for Ellie over the fields and then we went to Howletts. Mizi, the baby rhino was being kept indoors and Arina, the Siberian Tiger (my favourite) decided to sleep in the sun, right at the back of her enclosure so that we could hardly see her. But we did see the clouded leopard which is rarely seen. We also listened to the tiger talk again and discovered that there is soon to be a Sumatran tiger breeding programme. Howletts have a representative in Sumatra in the middle of talks at the moment. This is a critically endangered animal.

I do like the moloch gibbons, they have such expressive faces. Today the gorillas were having fun in the sun. They discovered that if they banged very loudly on their metal slide, they made a little boy, who was standing next to us, cry so they did it several times!

As usual, we had a lovely time even though the Kent ice cream parlour was shut . It was half term so we thought it may have been open!

Thought for the Day – “When you have a choice whether to be right or be kind, choose to be kind.” ~ Wayne Dyer

Friday 17th February 2017

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We went down for breakfast and we had a really lovely waitress again. It was a good quality breakfast too and we took a sausage back to the room for Ellie. After breakfast we went for a long walk and went to see the donkeys.

We packed the car up and drove home. The hotel is only 10 miles from us but the price we pay is crazy, basically, the same as we’d pay for a good three course meal anywhere else but we also had bed and breakfast and I didn’t have to drive home.! This was a Living Social deal and cost us £69!! We couldn’t fault a thing.

Ellie just seems to settle where ever we go, she is a very adaptable dog, bless her.

Thought for the Day – “To remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be.”

Thursday 16th February 2017

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We heard from Cyprus that it was only 3 degrees. Here it is 11 and lovely and sunny for our walk.

 After lunch we headed off to Ham where it was our ‘real’ Valentine celebration, a night at the Blazing Donkey, a hotel we go to two or three times a year.
On the way there we decided to take Ellie for a walk to Sandwich Bay, a place for some reason we have never visited. It was only when we discovered a toll gate and a man came out and asked us for £7, that we realised why we had never been!  I told him that was crazy £7 for an hours walk to which he replied “This is a private estate madam”. I turned the car around and we went for a walk along the river instead. Mal has since discovered that this is the HIGHEST toll in the UK, outside of London! We won’t be going again!
The Blazing Donkey is a little like Fawlty Towers and we love it. Our deal also included a glass of wine and a 3 course dinner. Most of the rooms are in a converted stable block but we were highly honoured to have a room in the main hotel with a 4 poster bed and a huge bathroom and overlooking their garden! Far better than usual!
We went to have our dinner and the service and food were excellent.  They actually gave us a very large glass of wine each for free and then we ordered a bottle!

I actually think by the end of the evening we had quite a lot to drink but it is so rare that I am not driving.

Thought for the Day – “All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Wednesday 15th February 2017

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We took Ellie for a walk in the sun again, it’s really nice after all the cold and wet.

I heard from David and Kenny and they have just reduced the price of their house by £45K. Everything about it is perfect they have now had enough of waiting and decided the house is too big for them and too much work. They have had it up for sale for about three years now. We will also reduce the price of ours on our next visit, we had already decided on that.

Mal went to the allotment in the afternoon and of course then it started raining!

Thought for the Day – “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.” ~ Winston Churchill