Month: April 2020

I have to admit I am getting a little fed up with the dual standards of this lock down! Mal and I tracked 4 planes one after the other from Heathrow yesterday. 100, 000 people arrive at Heathrow a week and NONE of them are tested.  I don’t like Piers Morgan but at the moment he really is challenging the government  and quite frankly they don’t have the answers! Matt Hancock, oh my goodness what a load of waffle.  I am becoming more and more cynical.

However, we decided to do a door step drop at Lou and Rhys’s . It’s horrible when we just can’t hug and have to keep our distance. BUT at least we see them. They also gave us some steak!

The allotment in the afternoon and Mal weeded the grandkids patches on his allotment while I watered everything on mine after planting a few more things. So much rhubarb! I took loads round for Lou and picked a lot more for us. Lou is making wine and I think we will too.

Thought for the Day – “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.” ~ Elie Wiesel

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Another nice walk along the river in the sunshine.

We were back at the allotment in the afternoon. Watering and weeding the priority today and I picked masses of rhubarb again. I made a different rhubarb crumble with the rhubarb cooked in port and walnuts in the crumble. Very nice.

Thought for the Day – “Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.” ~ Lou Holtz

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I took Ellie out for an early morning walk, it was a nice morning with a lot of dog walkers out.

We then went to do our weekly shop. First into Aldi and they were very thorough with hand sanitiser and thoroughly wiping the trolleys. There were hardly any people there so shopping inside was much easier. We even managed to buy four more plant propagators. From there, on to Tesco and all their Easter eggs were reduced so I bought three more much better ones for Ollie, Oscar and Josie! They also had so many legs of lamb, so I bought one for the freezer and one for Lou and Rhys. We’ll have to do a door step drop before long!

Wilko was open so Mal went in there and managed to buy a lot of runner bean poles and some seeds. According to him they are necessities!

Thought for the Day – “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

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What a change in the weather, a real temperature drop.

We took Ellie to the allotment. I planted some of my courgettes and made a cage round a few to stop the birds eating them. We are amazed at the amount of rhubarb we are getting, this is just a small section of it.

I finished “Liar” and will have to look for something else to watch now!

Thought for the Day – “A kind word is like a Spring day.” ~ Russian proverb

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What a surprise this morning, the Easter Bunny left this on our front door step!!

How lovely and thoughtful from Lou, Rhys and the kiddlies! Josie was in the back of the car..painful that I couldn’t give anyone a hug. Ollie had even made a cake for us!

I was up early as I had a leg of lamb and wanted to slow roast it. Such a waste when it is only Mal and I and not the rest of the family to share it with us!

Lamb in the oven and we went for our daily exercise/dog walk.

We went for our walk along the river.

Back home and Wingham Wildlife Park had a tour of their park with interaction on Facebook. It was excellent as Lou and the littlies joined in and Sol as well. Of course they are looking for donations and they really deserved it. Of course the park is shut at the moment so no income from visitors.

Our lunch was lovely. This was followed by hot cross bun pudding! I think the diet starts on Tuesday!

We then had a video whatsapp with Lou, Rhys and all of them. The kiddlies have been playing in the pool and having fun.

Later we had a video link with Tris and Violet as it was Violet’s birthday. Sadly our presents and Easter egg had not yet arrived. I think the postal service is struggling. They are both in London  and reported that there were a lot of mounted police around.

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I made another Debenhams order. It is handy for birthday presents for the next couple of months if we don’t have access to shops and this weekend they are reducing the price of a lot of their merchandise. Well worth a look. The orders are taking a little longer than normal but worth the wait for the reductions!

We went to the allotment, I did all the watering and Mal planted some french beans. Ellie was getting hot in the sun so we didn’t stay too long. We picked rhubarb again, there is so much growing at the moment, we pick some every day.

We sat in the garden, in the sun and played cards in the afternoon, took us back to our Cyprus days!

Thought for the Day – “Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.”

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