Year: 2020

After breakfast we took Ellie for a walk and the kids went on the zip wire.

Lou came to collect them later in the morning.

We are both disappointed to receive an email to say that the Great British Folk Festival will not be going ahead this year. Now to get our refund!

We had rain at last early evening!

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Ollie, Oscar and Josie arrived in the morning and were staying the  night. What a lovely surprise. Oscar and Josie had made us thank you cards and Ollie made us an enormous three layer cake to thank us for the holiday. Bless them.

We went to the allotment where they did a bit of weeding and picked some of their vegetables. Back home for lunch. They do love the olive bread I buy and making their own sandwiches with it. Of course we finished with some of Ollie’s delicious cake.

We watched a film in the afternoon and then went to The Punch Tavern for dinner.  Ollie said he had the best pizza ever and Oscar said it was the best chocolate fudge cake he had ever had! Three of us also had the never ending ice cream but because of the safety precautions we couldn’t help ourselves and the waiting staff were really good and kept getting us more even though they were busy. We also watched them doing a lot of cleaning all the time. Excellent service.

Thought for the Day – “Happy people focus on what they have. Unhappy people focus on what’s missing.”

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Well, the rain came during the night which means we don’t have to water the allotment but it must have been a bit windy too because three of my tomato plants blew over in the garden. Tomatoes all over the lawn!

We walked Ellie in the rain but she loved rolling on the wet grass!

We went to Dunkerley’s in Deal for lunch. We haven’t been there for years and as the “Eat In” offer was on, decided to try it again.

Suffice to say it was chaos in there and even though there were only two other tables when we ordered dessert, we had to wait 25 minutes and then had to get up and ask for it. We couldn’t find anyone to give us the bill and then when we managed to get it, we had someone else’s drinks added on to it! I think we will leave it another few years before we bother going back.

Thought for the Day – “Remember what you do now will come back to you in the future. Life has a funny way of making you deal with what you make others go through.”

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We took Ellie for her walk and she had plenty of dogs to play with. I think she had missed that.

Mal and I then went into Deal and called into Spoons for a coffee and lunch. We sat in the garden and ate it. Crazy money as it was all half price (£6.30).

Mal went to the allotment in the afternoon while I started sorting the garden out. I don’t know what happened to the rain that had been forecast!

Thought for the Day – “Never leave home without a hug, a kiss and a ‘I love you’……then remove the dog hair from your mouth as you walk to the car”

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Ellie out for a walk and then I did washing etc and went to buy some food.

Mal caught up with some of his students (he teaches teachers).

In the afternoon we went to the allotment to give it a much needed watering and there was masses of vegetables. They have also fitted a new gate and we will all have a special high security key.

Plenty of vegetables for a curry in the evening!

Thought for the Day – “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” ~ Ken Poirot

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Again we decided to leave early to try and avoid the masses of traffic. So many people having staycations means the roads are a nightmare. Rhys was taking a diversion on the way home to have the screen fitted in his taxi. Of course it was longer and they hit a lot of traffic. We were very lucky and had a good journey watching queue after queue on the opposite side of the road heading to the west country. The last chance for many people to have a break before the kids return to school.

Ellie still didn’t like it in the back of the car and at one point tried to climb over on to the seat!

Eventually Rhys, Mal and Ollie arrived, we sorted out the cars and then drove home. The main thing was Ollie, Oscar and Josie enjoyed the holiday, I was not so pleased with parts of it, mainly the lack of cleanliness and care (Covid) but then no one seems to know what they are doing anyway!

Sandwich did not have the amount of rain we had, consequently my hanging baskets and much of my garden looked quite sad, but we do have a lot of tomatoes in my pots.

It was a long day, even longer for Lou and Rhys who both had to drive. We just unpacked our case, sorted some things and had a very easy dinner!

Thought for the Day – “You will never have this day again so make it count.”

 

Lou, Rhys and the kids were up early and went to Looe harbour to go crabbing. They discovered if they went early then there were very few tourists around. They caught some big crabs!

Meanwhile Mal and I were still trying to find a decent dog walk. We spoke to a farmer who said we could walk in her fields as long as we didn’t mind the three donkeys there. We thought that was very kind of her and Ellie had a run off the lead, she rather likes horses/donkeys. Then we discovered that originally a public footpath went right across the fields and we even found the stile and the post where the sign had been pulled down! Of course it had all been left overgrown. At least the dogs had a run.

Friday, so we had to have fish and chips from Coddy Shack! We had local haddock. Josie said it was the best battered sausage she had ever had!

Later we went to the entertainment hoping it was our turn to win the bingo…we didn’t!!
Back to the caravan and we packed up ready to leave the following morning.

Thought for the Day – “If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Teresa