Year: 2020

Today Mal and I should have been in London watching Michael Ball in Hairspray!! Ah well. Think of the positive, we received a refund.

We took Ellie to Minnis Bay and it was surprisingly quiet. A lovely day.

Mal went to the allotment in the afternoon.

8.00pm we were out clapping with our neighbours. Ellie goes from one house to another as they all love her!

Thought for the Day – “Every day is a new day. Smile, stay positive and give your best. Miracles happen every day.”

We took Ellie out and Mal made a diversion via the post office to return an Amazon parcel. They just had a notice up saying ” we may be opening at 11.30″. That was helpful, another day!

Mal went to the allotment in the afternoon. I had things to do at home.

Thought for the Day – “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We took Ellie out. Far more cars on the road as obviously some people have returned to work.

The three of us then went to the allotment. More weeding and I watered everything. The gooseberries and strawberries are now taking shape.

A decent night on TV, channel 5. I do particularly enjoy the Yorkshire vet. I lived in Boroughbridge, the base of one of the vets when the boys were little. In fact Rhys was born in Harrogate. We were all  due to go to a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales at the end of this month. Sadly not possible now. Such a shame. We had all been really looking forward to it. We have to think we haven’t lost anyone and should be grateful.

Thought for the Day – “Kindness is to love people more than they deserve”

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I was up at 5 so Ellie and I went for an early walk. It was a very cold wind.

I have to laugh at Piers Morgan challenging the government. I don’t usually like watching him but I am enjoying it at the moment as it seems no one else is asking the questions. As he says they are treating us all like imbeciles. How true.

Mal then spent one and a half hours trying to get a refund for two hotel bookings we have this month. One said if we are cancelling we can’t have the money back. It took a long while for them to understand we are not cancelling…it is them who are not providing a service! I wonder how many people give up and forfeit their money?

I popped to the shop and then in the afternoon, in spite of the strong wind we went to the allotment. We were the only ones there. The wind has bashed a couple of broad beans over.

Early evening we took some flowers round to the cemetery for Torin. Hopefully the flowers won’t blow away, it was a bitterly cold wind.

Well someone has summed it all up nicely what we should be doing……………………………..

“I think I’ve worked it out…

* 4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for their tuition and the accommodation that they aren’t living in, can’t go back to university.

* I can go to school with many 4 year olds that I’m not related to but can’t see one 4 year old that I am related to.

* I can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

* I can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe but not two people so if I know two people from another household I have to pick my favourite. Hopefully, I’m also their favourite person from my household or this could be awkward. But possibly I’m not. In fact, thinking about it, I definitely wouldn’t be. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one I choose anyway so you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter – unless two people would restrict my eyeline too much and prevent me from being alert.

* I can work all day with my colleagues but I can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work.

* I can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like I was some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

* I can drive to other destinations although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? It’s hundreds of miles away but no one has said that’s wrong.

* The buses are still running past my house but I shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air… but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because… well, I don’t do know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because… they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.

* The slogan isn’t stay at home any more.So we don’t have to say at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.

Don’t forget…

Stay alert… which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.

Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.

Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that
one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.

So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.”

I think you have to keep a sense of humour through all of this!

Thought for the Day –  “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

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Well, this is interesting about  Covid and the TRNC . 

Spain have a phased de escalation plan as well. All you see in the UK is a lot of contradictory statements of what you should be doing. It does make you wonder how Brexit will be dealt with!

We then did what is becoming a Sunday tradition. We drove to Reculver to take Ellie for a long walk. There is plenty of space there to avoid other walkers. There are a lot of nesting skylarks and swallows.

From there we called in on Lou and Rhys and this time they had put out deck chairs at the far end of their front garden!

We do miss them.

Back home and I cooked a roast and the temperature dipped so we weren’t going to eat this meal outside!

We watched Boris and as someone said on Facebook “Do if you can but don’t if you can’t!! So vague.

Thought for the Day – “When you look at a field of dandelions you can either see a hundred weeds or a hundred wishes.”

A warm day so an early walk for Ellie. We noticed that the sea gulls are back nesting on the same roof as usual, just along the road by the cemetery.

Mal went to the allotment on his own in the afternoon, just to water. I sat in the garden.

I just heard people embarking from aircraft in the UK should now go into 14 days quarantine…………………….erm………………….6 weeks too late! What is the matter with this government?!

We sat in the garden and played cards in the evening and watched all the planes going overhead!

Thought for the Day – “Be the kind of person you want in your life.”

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The 75th anniversary of VE Day. I walked Ellie very early and during the walk the only Union Jack/bunting I saw was at the Alms houses. There won’t be many celebrations in Sandwich. This week should have been “Sandwich Salutes the 40’s”, of course cancelled. Sandwich looks very sad with no flowers in any of the planters along the river. It should be Sandwich in Bloom but we have now pulled out of the competitions. Very sad. Nothing at the Guild Hall either.

I had a phone call from Maxillofacial to say that my Monday appointment has been cancelled at the hospital. No surprise there, this is now the third one cancelled.

We then spent some time cancelling hotel and concert bookings for this month! We have had our money refunded for the end of the month holiday but that is all so far.

Ossies fish and chip shop is now open so Mal walked down there and bought some. At least we could pretend things are returning a little to normal!

Thought for the Day – “People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”  ~ Amanda Bynes

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