Month: January 2017

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Another cold day with the car frozen. I dropped Mal off at the station and then Ellie and I went to the orchards. There really was a thick frost even as we walked.

Next was shopping at Westwood, I seem to have a lot of vouchers from supermarkets, the best one Iceland Wholesale which has only been opened about a month. I even bought a couple of birthday presents in there. I have four £5 off vouchers!

Mal managed to get the Preston bus all the way home, so I didn’t have to go out again in the cold early evening!

Thought for the Day – “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain

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My car was booked in for a full service and MOT, so I left early and dropped it off in the garage in Canterbury. I walked from there into the shop, Demelza. It was not a long walk. Another really good day and I managed to sell my first wedding dress. I must have spent about two hours helping the bride to be. She was out celebrating her 30th birthday the previous evening and the gift from her fiance was tickets to Las Vegas and then he suggested they married while they were there and they were flying out tomorrow! So, it was rather urgent. The whole of our downstairs showroom is packed with wedding clothes. The shop was previously a wedding gown shop and the kind people gave us their left over gowns. The only problem was the girls height, she was very short and didn’t have time to get anyone to shorten them I did suggest she could do it on the flight preventing boredom!  We did have a lot of fun while she was trying them all on and I was trying to button her into size 8’s.

Eventually we found a beautiful beaded bodice, a plain silk skirt with a train AND a veil. The only thing we didn’t have was a garter! She really was so happy and gave me a big hug and told Jack (assistant manager) I was a great asset to Demelza. It’s a shame I don’t need anything for a CV any more! Our manager doesn’t work on Monday so Jack is always in charge on my day and he is lovely…..

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A rainy day but we managed to go walking when it was just a drizzle so didn’t get too wet but of course Ellie was muddy. Not the day to be gardening which we had planned. Instead it was an indoors day and watching the football in the afternoon. I enjoyed the Everton game, some young talent there, with an eighteen year old scoring their third goal and a nineteen year old scoring the fourth goal!

Mal took Ellie out for her afternoon walk while I had a quick vacuum as Ellie is in a heavy moult with the central heating on. She does make me laugh, she obviously didn’t like me tidying her toys up so as soon as she was back, she dragged them all out and layed in the middle of them!

Thought for the Day – “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” ~ Mark Twain

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We took Ellie for a walk and it was a very cold wind. Mal bought tickets for Les Miserables as part of my Christmas present as it is my favourite show. I have already seen it 7 times but Mal has never seen it. So today was the day for a trip to London. We dropped Ellie off at Rhys’s and he taxi-ed us to the station and we caught the train. We spent the morning wandering around the shops, had a bite of lunch and then went to the matinee performance.  We also had a wander around Carnaby Street – that took me back too many years when I used to go to London every weekend. We also meandered through China Town.

Whilst the show in my opinion was still excellent, I have to say no one can play Jean Valjean as well as Alfie Boe. Thankfully Mal enjoyed it too. What a beautiful chandelier they had in the theatre.

We had every intention to find somewhere to eat in London but it really was heaving everywhere when we came out of the theatre and so decided to grab a snack and come home. We were home much earlier than intended and Rhys bless him collected us from the station and took us to his home to collect Ellie. We normally wander around and find a really nice eatery but it was just so busy everywhere. As Rhys said, people are given theatre tickets for Christmas and that’s why the shows are so busy in January.

London becomes less and less attractive!

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In spite of all the horrific weather forecasts, we haven’t had too much snow and the snow we have had has mostly melted away. It was more muddy than snowy on our walk.

Later I dropped Mal at the station then popped to see Linda, a friend of mine at her place of work (a shop), then back home to the warm.

Thought for the Day – “We were born to be real not to be perfect.”

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As I mentioned yesterday the Turkish lira is crashing. Who knows if it will reach 5 lira to the pound.

Mal and I took Ellie out over the fields and through the woods. I noticed in the morning that she has a lump on her nose, maybe one of the rabbits caught her yesterday. She was rubbing her nose last night, I will have to keep an eye on it. Meanwhile I have been bathing it with salt water.

The rain started and it was quite miserable so we went out for lunch. We went to the Punch Tavern as they keep sending me 20% off vouchers, so we thought we may at least use one. I think everyone gets 20% off in January if you download the vouchers. Mal does like the carvery so he can load his plate up!

The snow started about eight in the evening but seemed to be melting as soon as it settled and we presumed it was melting on the thatch too as there was a trickle of water indoors down the living room wall by one of the windows! A good thing it’s not our house!!

Thought for the Day – “People don’t notice whether it is winter or summer when they are happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov

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I dropped Mal off at the station for the 7.40. Ellie and I went to the orchards on the way back. A really mild day and a lovely sun rise. Ellie chased rabbits again but thankfully didn’t catch any. There were a lot of birds around the orchards and I even heard the first woodpecker of the year.

All the weather forecasts are saying to expect every sort of weather including snow.

Ellie, in my opinion has the best dog food which is Barking Heads and the Bad Hair Day one. She has a lovely coat and the food is completely natural. When I gave up with Eukenuba because the quality went downhill a retriever breeder recommended this to me. Ellie loves it because it is lamb and it really is good for her coat. Friends of mine who have dogs with skin problems have changed to this and the problems cleared up. At the moment it is 20%off at Zooplus (click the link above in bargains!), so I have ordered 2 sacks for Ellie and also some for Torin’s dogs. It is rare that this dog food is reduced.

The Turkish lira is crashing and as I write this, it is 4.76 to the pound.

In the evening we watched the programme Hospital, it’s quite frightening what Hunt has done.

Thought for the Day – “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” ~ Kahlil Gibran