Year: 2019

I was working at Demelza for the day, nice to be back. We have a bridal sale on at the moment but nobody bought a wedding dress and there are some really beautiful ones.

In the evening I babysat for Lou and Rhys for a while. Tariq arrived back from Derby too, his last week before he returns to the Marines. He drove me back home the journey taking almost double the time it should have as they are carrying out resurfacing on two of the dual carriageways overnight so we had to detour twice.

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Mal and I walked Ellie, not as long a walk as normal as it was raining. We checked Torin’s flowers and they were still OK in spite of the rain and wind.

We went for Sunday lunch at Lou and Rhys’s. Rhys came in later on as there were no trains from Ramsgate to Faversham so he was out working.

The kids were doing a bit drawing.

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I went shopping and then the rest of the day catching up with the boring things. It was very windy again but it meant all my washing was dried in no time at all. Back to reality!

Grandson Torin’s photo book arrived and we are really pleased with it, 100 pages of his life up to 18 years.

Thought for the Day – “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

We had breakfast, packed and spent a while in the library until it was time for the coach to leave.

When we parted from our driver, Andy at Corley we gave him a big tip. He made our holiday with his never ending local knowledge. I hope we get him again on our next trip.

It was very wet and windy the whole journey home but it seemed to go much more quickly than the journey there.

Lou collected us in Herne Bay, a cup of tea with her and then we drove home with Ellie.

Thought for the Day – “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” ~ Malcolm Forbes

The good thing about our driver Andy, every day we set off at the same time stopping any confusion.

This day we went to Otley. There was a nice gallery there where we bought a painting. You could also visit the old Police station from the TV programme Heartbeat. He also showed us the old Emmerdale. He just knew so much about the local area, it was hard to take it all in. We went past an old graveyard where evidently they had done a “risk assessment” and knocked down all the gravestones, saying they were unsafe and of course now they are going to build on it…how awful!

We then went on to Ilkley Moor, it was cold and windy but it had to be done!

We drove back into Ilkley town and had our lunch there.
In the afternoon we went to Knaresborough. I used to take my boys boating here, a lovely place.

A long day but we thoroughly enjoyed it. Again a delicious meal in the evening.

The majority of our coach party went to Skipton for the morning but we arranged to meet my old friend. We were best friends when all our boys were pre school and we have kept in touch ever since, so it really was lovely meeting up with her again. We didn’t stop talking and then went out for lunch in Harrogate. A few wines and a few coffees and it was surprising how quickly the time went by.

Mal and I decided that the hotel was so good, there is so much to see around the area and we wanted to see Annette again that we have booked the same holiday again in October!! We certainly know what we like.

After Annette left we walked around the baths and also Valley Gardens and the Pine woods.

Another delicious three course meal in the evening.