Month: December 2017

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We woke to a thick frost so our original plan of going to Howletts was postponed until later in the week when it is warmer. It did look pretty outside though.

Instead Mal decided he needed to go shopping in Canterbury, so we went in fairly early, just as the shops were opening. Why do men leave shopping until the last minute? It would have been later this week but I told him if so he would have to get the bus!! 

We were going to have a coffee at the end of the shopping but decided to brew a pot when we arrived home and get the log burner going. No such luck we arrived in the middle of a power cut. At least we kept warm with the log burner and also boiled a saucepan on top of it. Memories of Cyprus….power cuts.

We spent the afternoon watching ‘Miracle on 34th Street’.

Thought for the Day – “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam

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Whether people know or not how we brought Ellie back from north Cyprus, I no longer care. I have been contacted today asking where we stayed in Larnaca the night before our flight. I didn’t mention any of it in my diary as at the time I didn’t want people to know. All I knew at the time was that I didn’t want her travelling from north Cyprus and being dumped on the runway when you change planes in Turkey. We took the easiest route from Larnaca to Paris. In case anyone would like to know we stayed at Pasianna Hotel appartments in Larnaca. It’s dog friendly, literally at the end of Larnaca airport runway and they have a service to take you, your luggage, crate and dog to the departures. And they are very cheap!

We took Ellie for her walk and called at the farm vegetable stall. They did make us laugh with their leek promotion! It has an honesty box there so I always have to remember to take the right change.

We then went to the King Street Christmas Fayre in Sandwich and took Ellie with us. Sandwich is such a dog friendly town, everyone takes their dogs with them and Ellie loves all the attention she gets. It also has a lovely atmosphere and it was nice listening to the little children singing carols. We saw the Snow Queen as well.

They had an art exhibition in the church and we bought an original water colour, coincidentally painted by John Hughes. Mal used to travel to teach at school with his wife before we left for Cyprus. He was saying this to the girl who we paid for the painting. She told us Val had passed away and that was quite a lot of years ago. How sad.

It was nice to see the church being utilised. So many are just sitting empty for most of the time. The one next door to us is only used for a service one week in three and the occasional wedding in the summer.

What a surprise in the afternoon, Hammers won 3-0!! Spurs didn’t do at all well, I even delayed watching Strictly to watch it! But I was very pleased with the result of that, exactly who I wanted to win.

Thought for the Day – “It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

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A trip to Westwood and that is when I get really annoyed and find presents I have already bought people are now HALF price!! That does make me cross, so much for forward planning, even though it has all been a bit of a shambles this year.

I have to say through all this Ellie has been good therapy, bless her.

Thought for the Day – “Some talk to you in their free time and some free their time to talk to you. Learn the difference.”

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We went into Deal again. It’s not far and they have some really nice shops there not the usual chains. On the way home we went into one of the farm shops to buy a sack of potatoes. I find these so much cheaper than buying small bags from the supermarkets  and also they are usually locally grown. I was told that they couldn’t get King Edwards as the local farmer was asking £16 a sack and that was without the sellers profit margin! We settled for Marfona at £5.50 a 25kg sack. We bought more celeriac too, love it!

Quite a quiet day and the log burner roaring again.

Thought for the Day – “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more but those giving more.” ~ H Jackson Brown Jr 

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We took Ellie out, it was cold but the sun was already up and very bright.

So, we are supposedly buying a house and we took a trip to Dover to see our solicitor. He wanted to see passports etc and the advance of his fees. We went to the office, did all that and then had a quick look around the town. I’ve never been very impressed with Dover so after a bit of shopping in Morrisons we headed for De Bradlei Wharf. There were road works and they had closed the road to the entrance so we had to travel all round the dual carriageway a second time. By now the ferry queue was horrendous, we were stuck in it (delays for the ferries because of the bad weather). We gave up and came home!

We boxed up the Christmas presents for the twins and I also added two framed photos, one for each of them with a photo of them with their dad. I take so many photos I am probably the only person who has so many of the three of them together. 

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We seem to be the lucky part of the country, many have quite deep snow. We just have strong winds and rain which was enough as my back tyre was flat. Mal pumped it up but it was obvious there was a problem which meant I couldn’t drive to Wingham, and so I couldn’t go into work. As the tyre was completely flat, we knew we had to get it sorted straight away. We took it to the garage that Rhys uses for his taxis as it is one that can be trusted.  We headed that way and the next village along, a tree had fallen and completely blocked the road. It really wasn’t our day. We stopped frequently to make sure there was still some air in the tyre. We arrived at the garage (Lou having phoned ahead). They were so busy. He said because of the bad weather they had double the amount of customers but he looked at it straight away. There really are benefits to Rhys having a specific garage to use for his taxis. It was the wall of the tyre, which meant a new tyre. So we waited while they sent for a new one. We then went to Rhys’s for a tea.

I managed to parcel up a couple of Christmas presents ready to post the following day. 

We put in an offer for the house we viewed in Sandwich. Quite honestly we didn’t think we had a chance of getting it as Sandwich is a very popular place and quite a few people had seen it and others waiting to view and some coming back for a second viewing. It wasn’t accepted and so we upped our offer and it seems we were in the most favourable position for the owner to go ahead with us. We are not getting too excited yet, all sorts of things could happen and in the great scheme of things and in light of recent events, it isn’t the major drama it used to be. If it is meant to be then it will happen. We have more than enough going on without stressing about buying a house but we have had our fill of landlords deciding to sell their houses when we are nicely settled! 

We have lost our coffee percolator pot. We don’t know where it has gone! Mal did suggest that Rhys may have hidden it as a joke yesterday but no he hasn’t. We are both quite distracted and forget a lot but can’t think what we have done with it!

Thought for the Day – “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” ~ Linda Wooten