Month: July 2020

I had to go back to the shops again to return some clothes I bought. It is a real pain not being able to try things on. No problem at M&S. They must get fed up with people returning things.

I weeded the garden in the afternoon. It was very muggy so we put the air con on, mainly for Ellie!

We went to the cemetery in the afternoon to clean Torin’s stone. Flying ants all over one side of it. They call it Flying ant day. It was the same last year.  I have to say the groundsmen do keep it looking nice and the grass is always well trimmed.

In the evening we watched Hammers, a good game!

Thought for the Day – “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.” ~ Paulo Coelho

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I went shopping in the morning. Firstly my bank card was rejected three times in the supermarket. There is plenty of money in the account so I just used another card. I then went to the cash card with the first card and drew out far more cash and yes, it worked.

I then went to M&S food and the self check out wouldn’t work either. I obviously chose the one that decided not to work!

The shop I went to for bird seed had sold out and the next one didn’t have any. Quite frankly my whole shopping trip was like that. I will have to get my bank to issue a new card. Mal seems to think they are scrubbing things…..card machines etc and they are not liking it. Who knows.

My bank is going to send a replacement card!

Lots more from the allotment and runner beans for dinner.

We booked a holiday in Cornwall and it is nice to actually make entries into the diary instead of crossing everything out. Let’s hope the new entries come to fruition!

Thought for the Day – “If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in.”

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It was very warm overnight and so I was up early walking Ellie. Shortly after that Lou, Rhys and the kids arrived. A morning at the allotment and what a huge difference it made having an extra 5 pairs of hands! Mal and Ollie put membrane down and made another path with the bark chippings. Every one else was weeding. We achieved a lot. The kids made their wigwam for their runner beans they planted last week.

Then it was all back to ours for lunch. My samosa pie is very popular along with salad…..it all went! I think the work gave us all an appetite.

Thought for the Day – “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

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We took Ellie for a walk in the drizzle. Of course it had stopped by the time we arrived home.

I have so many courgettes on the plants I have at home and that’s without the ones at the allotment! I noticed a couple of black fly on one of them but the birds are helping me out getting rid of them!

In the evening I cooked Beef Stifado. I also made a samosa pie for the following day.

Thought for the Day – “Do it now. Sometimes later becomes never.”

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We took Ellie to Minnis Bay. Every summer at Minnis, there are a couple of weeks when seaweed covers the first few sections of the beach and it stinks and piles up. It always makes me laugh because the worst part is where the humans are and dogs are not allowed. However after her swim and play in the sea, Ellie decided to roll in the really deep rotting piles of it until her head and most of her body were green! Thankfully I have a blanket on the back seat of the car but that doesn’t do much for the rest of the smell!

Needless to say, she was straight in the bath when we arrived home and I had to wash the blanket. Don’t you just love retrievers?!

She enjoyed it!!

Thought for the Day – “A lot of people just need someone to be kind to them today.”

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We walked Ellie and then went over to Lou and Rhys’s. Rhys had been busy marinating and preparing the BEST goat curry with dumplings and rice and beans and salad. It was so good. Ollie had also been using his culinary skills baking us a Caribbean cake.  They had both put a lot of effort into it and it was all so good.

After we ate, we all joined forces to look for and book a Spanish villa with its own pool for later on in the year!! We will all have to learn Spanish now in earnest.

We had a lovely day.

Thought for the Day – “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ~ Meister Eckhart

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A nice day and so we were down to the allotment. Courgettes are only just beginning but so far we have had one and a half kilos of them. Every day we have had raspberries and tay berries. The rhubarb is still coming and we are eating french beans and peas.  Now the first lot of runner beans are looking good and we had a few in the evening for dinner. Next will be endless blackcurrants!

Thought for the Day – “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” ~  Paulo Coelho

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