Archives for 2018 | On The Island

Saturday, January 6th, 2018Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Saturday 6th January 2018

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We took Ellie for her walk and this time went round by some of the horses. She hasn’t seen them for quite a while and started running backwards and forwards playing with them.

Tariq goes back to Marines tomorrow so Lou cooked another roast for all of us. I took the trifle as Tariq loves my trifle and won’t be having another for a long time! He’ll have to get used to the hard slog as soon as he is back.

We took the dogs out for a walk after our meal but it started to rain, so it was cut short. We had a lovely afternoon.

Thought for the Day – “Be kind, work hard, stay humble, smile often, keep honest, stay loyal, travel when possible, never stop learning, be thankful always and love.”

Friday, January 5th, 2018Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Friday 5th January 2018

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We took Ellie for a short walk before having breakfast. Our plan for the day was to walk the heritage walk around Rye. It started raining and we said perhaps we would pack our things up and wait a while in the lounge but the weather didn’t improve, in fact it became worse. So we left Rye.

Of course as usual we went to our favourite wet fish shop on the way out of Rye. We always buy some crabs and sea bass. They didn’t have any crabs as the sea was too rough and they won’t sell frozen ones. In the end we bought prawns, sea bass and skate and dropped the skate off for Lou and Rhys on the way home. He is such a good fishmonger and was telling us all sorts of things we didn’t know about fish. Skate and Huss are part of the shark family and neither should be left hanging around in a fridge. The rule with both of them is eat or freeze on the day they are caught!! If not you get that awful ammonia smell.

No chance of them hanging around in our fridge!

Mal cooked the sea bass in the evening as he does, his speciality stuffed with spring onions and ginger. Delicious.

Thought for the Day – “In case you forgot to remind yourself this morning……..your butt is perfect. Your smile lights up the room. Your mind is insanely cool. You are way more than enough. And you are doing an amazing job at life.”

Thursday, January 4th, 2018Friday, January 5th, 2018

Thursday 4th January 2018

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We woke up to rain, took Ellie into the garden and then back in to have breakfast. By the time we finished the rain had stopped and we went for a very long walk. The rain may have stopped but it was very windy. We had ordered a parcel to be delivered by Amazon to their agent in Rye. We intended wrapping it and mailing it to Mal’s brother in plenty of time for his birthday. It was supposed to be there between 7-9am. We felt it a little impersonal just to get Amazon to send it direct……big mistake, Amazon Prime has messed up again! Twice we have been to the place, even though we were messaged to say it had been delivered….no it hadn’t! What a waste of time. We were really disappointed.

We had our lunch in The Queens Head, the pub was almost empty.

We then went on to the Heritage Centre and it was shut! It only opens Saturdays and Sundays this time of year! I was also surprised to see all the Easter eggs in the local supermarket!

I think we walked so much during the day and it was so windy we decided just to have a bar snack in the hotels bar in the evening.

I guess we were both happy as it was a draw between Hammers and Spurs!

Thought for the Day – “Always laugh when you can, It is cheap medicine.” ~ Lord Byron

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Wednesday 3rd January 2018

We walked Ellie and then packed a few things and drove off to Rye. We booked two nights in a hotel there where we have stayed before. It’s really nice and relaxing for a couple of days away from it all. Parking is not the easiest but we managed to get the last space by the hotel and then they gave us a residents parking permit for the next two days.

As we were early we walked just down the road to the Corridor which is our favourite cafe and they always make such a fuss of Ellie. We had some lunch there and double shot coffees which come as standard! Of course Ellie just settles down by the table.

The view from our hotel window

We had a wander around Rye and then in the evening we tried a new “dog friendly” pub for dinner. It was the Ypres Castle Inn (Wipers), They are in Camra’s Good Pub guide so excellent for Mal, a real ale lover but also the food was fantastic.

We walked back to the hotel and then sat outside in their garden for a while watching the moon and stars, in between the cloud and Ellie had a run around.

Thought for the Day – “I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching.” ~ Aurora Hernandez

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018

Tuesday 2nd January 2018

We beat the rain again and took Ellie to the orchards. We haven’t been there for quite a while and as we walked the other side of the fence to the lions (Wingham Wildlife) one of them started roaring and Ellie was quite freaked out. She has obviously forgotten when we heard the same lion all the time when we had lived next door to the Wild life park.

They are also scrubbing a couple of the orchards.

It started raining just after we arrived home and conveniently Lorna’s workman came to sort our side door out. We told her before Christmas but the workers were off for a long time. We were at the point of not being able to shut it at all as it had swollen so much. He shaved a lot off the door and we also told him the curtain rail had fallen down in the living room. Mal tried to make another hole but the wall was just crumbling away. He’s coming back another day to sort that out.

In the evening we watched the film “Their Finest”. A good film.

A good start to the new year, both Hammers and Spurs won their matches.

Thought for the Day – “Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons and best days give memories.”

Monday, January 1st, 2018Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

Monday 1st January 2018

Wishing every one of you a Happy and Healthy 2018

Rhys worked until the early hours and they still invited us to a roast and it was lovely with slow cooked lamb. The older boys were all out.

So, a lovely lunch, good company and we even had a few games of Dobble which Josie had for Christmas and it becomes very addictive. We have all been playing it.

Rhys had been recording The Strongest Man and so we watched some episodes of that.

Thought for the Day – “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”