Year: 2017

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My day at Demelza shop. I’m pleased that I do Mondays as we all get on so well together and really enjoy ourselves. I catch the bus from Wingham as parking in Canterbury is not easy or cheap. This morning the double decker was empty when it arrived, that was so unusual, I guess people have spent up over Christmas. At least we took more in the shop than they did on Friday or Saturday so that was good.

It really is so mild at the moment. One of the guys in the shop, Pedro, is Greek. He phoned his brother and he was told they couldn’t shower as all their pipes had frozen and it was minus 12 degrees. They have never known anything like it in Greece. The weather really does seem topsy turvey.

Thought for the Day – “Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.” ~ Dalai Lama

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Ellie and I went to the orchard for a long walk. She is forever on the look out for stoats, rabbits and moles! She has actually caught one of each of those. It was very mild. I started off with gloves and scarf and ended up taking them off and my coat!

I went to Gibsons Farm shop on the way home, they always have delicious fresh vegetables, fruit and lovely plants and flowers. I always spend too much in there!

Mal arrived back in the afternoon, nice to have him home. We watched a good Spurs match.

Thought for the Day – “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” ~ Henry Kaiser

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Ellie and I were out early and I decided to go to Minnis Bay as we hadn’t been to the sea for a while. What a miserable day, drizzly but not too cold. Ellie loved swimming anyway as she always does.

I made some really delicious celeriac soup. Possibly the best soup I have made in a long while, so I had to keep some for when Mal comes home!

I watched the tennis….Murray lost!

Thought for the Day – “Gratitude is one of the sweet short cuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for.” ~ Barry Neil Kaufman

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It wasn’t so sunny but still a lovely morning for a walk.

Later I dropped Mal off at the station. He was working in the afternoon and then going to his brothers straight from college.

I watched the Hammers game in the evening. They were awful, just as well Mal didn’t see it. Well and truly hammered!

Thought for the Day – “It’s not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out.” ~ Albert Einstein

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Another frosty morning but the sun was out so we went for a very long walk. I just love taking photos of the Grange. They hold weddings on the island in the grounds. It always looks so pretty in the sun.

At the moment there is a Turner exhibition – Adventures in Colour, at Turner Contemporary in Margate. It is ending on Sunday and so we really felt we should go and see it. But lunch first and so we went to the Lantern which is on the harbour arm, in fact sort of next door to the Turner. It’s a little confusing as they have tables outside but if you want to eat indoors than you can go in the Harbour Arms, next door but one and eat in there. It’s all very friendly  along the “arm”. All the meals in the Lantern were £5!! We both had the chilli con carne as he had just made it. It was hot and delicious. The Harbour Arms is a real ale micro pub so Mal had a pint.

Next into the Turner. There were a lot of “arty types” in there seriously studying every brush stroke of his paintings. Mal and I aren’t like that, we just like what we like and thought 90% weren’t good but the 10% were quite amazing, mostly ones he painted in Italy.  BUT he did love Margate and painting Margate sea scapes. Of course I couldn’t take photos of the paintings.

Margate was looking nice today.

Later we went to ‘Cupcake’ for tea and Mal had carrot cake. A nice day out in Margate.

Mal wasn’t asleep, he was studying the HUGE piece of carrot cake.

Thought for the Day – “It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.”

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An early morning to drop Mal off at the station and so Ellie and I walked round the orchards on the way back. She did have her eye on a rabbit but I told her to leave it and she did!.

I went into Canterbury later to look for clothes and found nothing! Always the way when I go looking for something specific,

Ellie has two walks a day and there was a lovely sunset for our afternoons walk. These are the fields behind our house, you can walk for miles this way.

Mal caught the bus back from Canterbury and was dropped off at the end of the road. I have to say he does enjoy this “work”. They seem a little wary of him as they know he was a Principal examiner and their methods are not all as they should be let’s say!

In the evening we watched an excellent game of football between Chelsea and Spurs. I guess someone had to break Chelsea’s run of wins and so pleased it was Spurs who did it!
Thought for the Day – “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” ~ Cynthia Ozick

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The first day for Mal to go back to college. He couldn’t believe that the college’s computers have been shut down and still were up to last night which meant he couldn’t access work he wanted to!

It was very frosty again.

I drove Mal to the station and on the way home Ellie and I had a long walk in Stodmarsh Nature Reserve.

For me it was a big cleaning day.
Thought for the Day – “If you realised how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” ~ Peace Pilgrim