On The Island

Wingham Orchards for our walk and the sun was out!! What a change.

On the way home we were passed by a lot of Police with blue lights flashing. Exactly as I guessed they were going to the  Pro Palestinian demonstration. Why the blue lights? Hardly an emergency!!

We stopped at Wingham Farm shop again and yes, we bought three more pots for the garden!!!

Now that is what I like to see in the garden!! It has been a long winter.

We walked Ellie in Minster and the sun was out for a couple of minutes but it was so muddy.

Back home and I decided to clean my wellies and bag as they really are so caked in mud. Of course tomorrow they will be just the same again.

In the afternoon back to the Canterbury dentist to take impressions. I called in to Wingham Farm shop on the way back to get some apples and they had frost proof garden pots for ridiculously low prices. They were priced half the original price and now 50% off that! They are changing supplier and so are selling the old stock at cost price!! I bought two.

I drove to Whitfield to get some fish stock, which I can’t seem to find anywhere else! Where have all the fish stock cubes gone? I managed to get some but not the ones I wanted.

Ellie had a favourite Christmas toy which she has played with so much and almost destroyed it. I was almost prepared to pay  £12 on Ebay but found two today for 50p each!!  It seemed in B&M that they have emptied all their store rooms out. Two massive aisles with most things 50p!! I was lucky to find them.

Another loss for Spurs, we are now 16th in the table and Mal is concerned Hammers will be relegated! Their game was better, thought it was a win until Man U levelled in extra time!

A work day at Cancer Research and I have to say it was possibly the worst Monday I have worked there. The card machine packed up LAST Monday and in spite of them saying it would be replaced within 24 hours, a week on and still no machine!  Not only that, still no Cancer Research Carrier Bags nor new person’s gift aid forms. The fact they closed so many shops at the end of last year, surely there are things from those shops? Who am I as a volunteer to say anything? I just try and explain to all the customers and tell them is a cash machine next door. Hopeless if their card is on their phone!! So much custom has been lost in the last week.

Jack is on holiday, probably just as well!

We went over to East Kent Railway. At last it was open. A little confusing but they are a registered charity and own Knees Wood where Ellie loves walking at quite a speed! We let her choose which path she goes on and then occasionally she turns around to see if we are still following her!

Just like everywhere else, it was so muddy. I have given up washing my wellies, I just throw them in a bag now!

All the train enthusiasts, volunteers are back and working. After the walk we went into the Colonel’s Cafe for a coffee. It is just a nice friendly place.

A very strange game between Liverpool v Manchester City!!

Another miserable damp day. Spurs lost and West Ham won their game.  I just wish it were Spring and we could sit outside and not have a muddy wet dog!

We drove into Deal to walk Ellie along the sea front as it is the least muddiest place we could think of! At least the rain held off for the walk, just drizzle.

Mal laughed at me because I bought some new standalone solar lights for the garden. They are the same as the ones I bought last year and they are really good, just as spares. He just said “who buys garden lights in this weather?!”  ME!!  Perhaps Spring will arrive a little quicker.

I booked another trip for the Kent Lavender Ladies for May, a days river cruise.