Archives for March 2018 | On The Island

Saturday, March 3rd, 2018Saturday, March 3rd, 2018

Saturday 3rd March 2018

Today is Scarlet and Jack’s birthdays. I really hope they have been given their presents we have sent. Torin always made sure they Skyped us to thank us or sent a thank you letter. It is all now up to their mother. I sincerely hope that she will put the children first. It is bad enough we have lost Torin and I am sure it is the same for them, losing their dad, they don’t want to lose grandparents as well. A photo from last year…..

The road had thawed a lot and so we went to Westwood shopping. It was urgent as we were running out of peanuts and fat balls for the birds! I had to laugh because there were two customers behind us saying we had all made the effort to go out to buy food for the wild birds! Well of course, poor things are in trouble with all that cold.

We watched the Spurs game in the afternoon, a good result.

Thought for the Day – “Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.” ~ Anthony J D’Angelo

Friday, March 2nd, 2018Saturday, March 3rd, 2018

Friday 2nd March 2018

It wasn’t quite as cold when we woke up. How do I know? Because the windows weren’t frozen on the inside!! Yes, we do have the central heating on 24/7 but it is an old draughty house. It will be nice when we move as the next house has very high energy efficiency.

How mistaken was I when we went for our walk.

Freezing rain was falling and it was freezing on our coats, all over Ellie’s fur and by the time we arrived home my car which I had kept sweeping the snow off, was frozen solid! It looked like a gigantic ice cube. I heard from Rhys and he told us not to drive as cars were flying off the road in the black ice and there are so many accidents.

I was supposed to be going to see Motown Magic in the evening with the Hatters. It was on at the Winter Gardens Margate. Many phone calls, who could go who couldn’t. Well, I knew I wouldn’t be able to get there, let alone get home again. I contacted the theatre, no refunds and it had not been cancelled. We then found someone in Margate who would take one of the tickets, so ring the theatre again and they would reprint it. About 20 minutes after sorting all this out, they announced on Facebook that they had postponed it!! Grrr! At least I will be able to see it next week…..weather permitting!!

Tariq has had 8 weeks intensive training and was due home this weekend but no trains running from Devon, so he can’t come. I think he was really disappointed.

Thought for the Day – “None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food, walk in the sunshine, jump in the ocean, say the truth that you are carrying in your heart. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.”

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Thursday 1st March 2018

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Another very cold day. Does anyone remember the real snow of 1963?? I do! I remember tobogganing over the golf course at Boxmoor.

More snow today and our road is now very icy and the lake opposite is completely frozen over.

We had a shorter walk as Ellie gets snow frozen in between her pads if we are out too long. We were going shopping but after our walk and all the ice we decided against it.

We started packing some things and also completed a photo book we were doing for River’s 21st birthday. It has not been easy because I am the only one who has all the photos. In fact I have thousands of photos and trying to find them was really upsetting because everywhere I looked there were photos of Torin which is why this has taken so very long. Mal managed to put it all together. Torin collected all the newspapers on the day River was born, so I have all those to pass on to him.

Poor Rhys had to drive today to collect customers from Gatwick. Not fun.

Later we caught up with Strike. We do like that.

Thought for the Day – “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”