Year: 2018

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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

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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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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.”

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More snow fell during the night and the lake opposite was frozen which means it was colder than yesterday. BUT help was at hand!

No school runs for Lou and Rhys as the schools are closed, so they were out down the beach with the kids!! I can’t believe the beach was covered in snow. It is usually warmer by the sea.

We took Ellie later than usual when the sun was out, not that it made much difference to the temperature.

I thought this was really nice of the Mosque…….I guess all the churches are locked!!……………………

“URGENT: IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS HOMELESS AND SLEEPING OUT TONIGHT RING CANTERBURY MOSQUE AND WE WILL PROVIDE SHELTER FOR THEM. WE HAVE BEEN OUT ASKING AROUND BUT NOT MANY OF THEM SEEM TO BE OUT TONIGHT. IF YOU SEE ANYONE SLEEPING OUT THEN CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. THANK YOU”

We checked with Rhys and Lou first to see if they could look after Ellie and then we booked a holiday! We both want to go to Madeira. The last time we were there was New Years Eve 1998 and watched a spectacular firework display from on board our cruise ship. Every house in Madeira has a firework and all the boats in the harbour. It was magical at midnight. The following day we went ashore but the weather was awful so we saw very little of the island. It was the day they adopted the euro and it was horrific buying things in the shops as they didn’t have a clue. Hopefully on our next visit we will see far more of the beauty of the island. 

In the evening we watched the Spurs game which was a bit of a shambles one way and another but at least Spurs won! 6-1

Thought for the Day – “A smile can hide so many feelings. Fear,sadness, heartbreak…….But it also shows one other thing, strength.” 

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We woke up to snow and falling quite heavily. We were the first out down our road and I don’t think many people will be attempting it today and certainly not the dustmen! It does all look very pretty!

Ellie wasn’t too sure to begin with and then decided she loved it and kept rolling in it!! We took her for a walk and poor thing had icicles hanging for her feathers and in between her pads by the time we arrived home but she loved it!

 She also liked playing snowballs and caught this one!

We waited until the afternoon until a little of the snow had thawed as we had to go and post birthday presents for the twins. As we had made the effort to get out, we also went to the skip place to load up with more wood. I managed to get an enormous splinter in my finger, it was about half an inch long when I tweezered it out when I was home! At least I pulled  it all out.

The rest of the day was spent keeping warm by the log burner.

Oh, I forgot to mention…..we exchanged contracts yesterday!! Mal has told the estate agent to go and turn the heat on so it doesn’t freeze. We have now insured it just in case…well, they are hopeless estate agents!

Thought for the Day – “All of us could learn something from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.”

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Cold weather is forecast and obviously the squirrels want to fill their tummies up!

My day at Demelza again, the weeks seem to fly by. It was very cold and snowing but we were so busy in the morning. We sold a lot of bridal which pushes the totals up and it was the most we have taken on a Monday since I have been there. The afternoon was a different story, we seemed to do more refunds than sales! No management were in at all and so I had to do it, having never been shown how to do it…interesting but I did manage.

It was snowing when I left in the morning and had settled in Wingham and here by the time I arrived home. We had the log burner on and we were nice and cosy.

Thought for the Day – “Let your smile change the world, Not the world change your smile.”

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It was sunny but a bitterly cold wind. Mal and I took Ellie for a walk along the river to Wickhambreaux. It wasn’t too bad going but coming back the freezing wind was in our face. The weather makes no difference to Ellie, she just loves the water. Funny how she would never go in the Med! 

 And with the boys….

We kept warm in the afternoon and watched Spurs (yeah they won) followed by Man U v Chelsea. Of course Chelsea was Torin’s team, Man U is Rhys’s. Always things remind me. 

In the evening I wrapped up presents for the twins birthday. I have to post them to make sure they arrive in time for their birthdays. One of Torin’s friends made some good suggestions to make sure the twins will always know just how much they mean to us. One idea, to photograph everything we send to them and all the messages we send to them as well. We sent them Christmas presents with a letter and a letter to their mother….nothing.  Torin would hate us to not see them. It is bad enough already that he always put them on the phone and Skype to us. Since he has been gone absolutely nothing.

Thought for the Day – “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr