On The Island

Another short walk with Ellie at 6am, she wasn’t keen on going too far. Another hot day.

I met up with the Red Hatters for lunch. Penny organised this one as she knew the landlady from the pub we were going to. At the last minute this morning two of our members pulled out and another changed her food choices! The two who didn’t come said it was too hot and they felt ill. In spite of that we had a good time and welcomed a new member, Nickie. Now we have 2 Nickies and two Angies!!

Ellie had her walk at 6, just to the field and around the cemetery, too hot for her even at that time of day…she is getting old! She has her fans and cool mat The garden all watered early and then Mal to the allotment to water. There are a lot of Courgettes at the moment.

Later in the day we had the air con on again (plus the fans around the house!) It was much nicer sitting indoors in the evening so we watched a couple more episodes of “Slow Horses”.  It is a very addictive series.

Early to the park again for a walk in the shade.

Work but a lot of the day it was just Karen and I as Jack was on holiday. A good day apart from the till seizing up, possibly internet and a blank screen with a queue of customers! But I managed to sell quite a lot of Superdraw lottery tickets….the things we have to do!!

A walk in Knees Wood, unfortunately we saw the lady with her “attacking spaniel” so we walked in the opposite direction. That poor dogs problem is the other end of the lead. It did go for Ellie once and its owner was in a total panic saying “he does that sometimes”!!

Then a coffee, Ellie was quite tired as it was very humid, so I drove the car up to the cafe!

We heard yesterday that Milly’s mum has sadly passed . Sol asked if we could look after Luna sometime when Milly has to empty her house…of course we will.

Cassidy (hop-a-long)is still living in our garden. He flies OK, comes and has some food and a drink, sits in the Bay leaf pot and then flies away for a while. He is a bit of a scruffy blackbird, bless him. I also found a bush cricket in the garden.

Ramsgate park just a short walk as it was hot again.

Very warm in the afternoon and so we left Ellie with her fans on and walked to the Quay to meet Jem and Dom as there was a Medieval weekend on.

Then back to ours and we sat out in the garden and Mal decided to make a salmon meal for us. Lovely out in the garden with food and a few drinks.

Back to the doctors again for another blood test, this time a fasting one. Good nurse, needle in first time.

I went to get some shopping Dover/Whitfield and a complete road was dug up and traffic lights….nightmare! The reason I didn’t go to Westwood Cross was because one of the roads is blocked to get there… a gas main burst and it is going to take them a long time to sort it! Perhaps I should have tried Deal but that will be full of holiday makers.

In the evening we finished the series of Ann Droid, quite comical!