Year: 2020

I can tell the clocks are going to change soon as I was wide awake at 5am. The birds were singing and it seemed a lovely day so Ellie and I sneaked off for a walk. Lou got in touch while I was out saying she was going shopping and was there anything she could get me, bless her!

Mal laughs because just as all this madness was starting I ordered dog food from Amazon. Ellie now has 2 x 12kg bags of her dried dog food. She won’t go without!

Lou came round with shopping for me and the kids came too and we all spent a couple of hours down at the allotment, good work. They came back and had lunch and then were going home to organise their school work from home. Of course Grandad is only too happy to help.

Thought for the Day – “When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where the power is.”

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We had a day out booked with the Red Hatters. It was a coach trip to Polhill Garden Centre. Only 4 Hatters turned up for the coach and a total of 8 passengers, us included.

We each had our own seat, spaced around the coach and there were very few people at the garden centre, so quite an ideal trip out!

After leaving the coach on the way home, I stopped for some eggs at the greengrocers I often use in Birchington. They had none and wouldn’t have any more until Friday! Great. I called into our local farm shop, none on the shelves but she let me have half a dozen which they had hidden! Who on earth is panic buying eggs now?!

Schools are closing this week. Ollie and Oscar’s finished today, lack of staff.

Thought for the Day – “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.”

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We both went to the allotment as part of Ellie’s walk. She had a bit of a limp yesterday and so we didn’t want to do a long walk. She does love it at the allotment. It was funny, all the old men were saying they were down there to “self isolate” and chatting to each other over the fences, Mal included and they say women talk a lot!

This was Mal modelling one of his birthday presents….

It was a lovely sunny day.

Our Fibfest……..Folk festival at the end of this month has been cancelled. We were looking forward to seeing Merry Hell.

Thought for the Day – “Take it day by day, don’t stress too much about tomorrow.”

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Mal’s birthday. With everything so uncertain with the Corona virus, we decided to just go along with the day and see what happens! I think we will be doing that for a few months now!

Mal had a lot of phone calls and thanking people for presents. We took Ellie out and it was so nice and spring like that lunchtime we decided to take a walk to the George and Dragon and have a drink. We sat in the garden with Ellie and thought we would look at the menu and ended up having a very nice lunch there, in the garden.

We hadn’t been in there for a long time and it had been closed down. It is now reopened with new people. It was very nice.

Early evening we met Lou, Rhys and the littlies in Margate as we had booked to go 10 pin bowling. We hadn’t listened to the news as it was so depressing, so we didn’t know Boris’s suggestion to avoid pubs etc! We were the only ones in the bowling alley which was really nice so we were avoiding everyone anyway! We had wipes and hand sanitizer and had a really good game. We expected to eat there but they were not doing food as we were the only ones wanting to eat. So, we went to the Spoons on Margate sea front and had the whole of upstairs to ourselves, we had birthday cake and everything! It was exactly how Mal wanted his birthday! We all really enjoyed it.

Thought for the Day – “Today, give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm, improbably generous. I promise it will be a blast.”

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We walked Ellie and called in at the Co op for some milk. Crazy queues with everyone (except me!) grabbing packs of toilet rolls!! So many empty shelves.

We were invited to Lou and Rhys’s for lunch for River’s birthday celebration. We had a lovely lunch and Ollie had made a birthday cake. It was nice to see Maddie and River.

Thought for the Day – “The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are but how happy others can be because of you.”

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We always say how the time flies but really…today is River’s 23rd birthday! This was taken when he was 15 minutes old and I still remember the excitement, our first grandchild!

Actually I should take this photo to Mr Elder, the Maxillofacial Consultant to show him NO I haven’t always had gaps in my front teeth!

I called into the Co op on the way home from our walk. I only went in for the news paper but seriously wondered whether I should be grabbing things off shelves the way everyone else was!

In the afternoon we went to the allotment for more planting.

I heard from Lou and she had just been to Sainsbury and she said it was so stressful with people grabbing everything AND while she was there the Police were called as there was a fight over pasta! It is confirmed, the whole world has gone mad! Is Coronavirus going to make everyone starve?! Oh and what is happening in Russia?………just asking!

Thought for the Day – “The joy of grandchildren is measured in the heart.”

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We took Ellie down to Minnis Bay. There were a lot of dog walkers out.

On the way home we stopped at the butchers in Birchington where we always buy our BBQ meat. He has special offers and today’s was 5kg of chicken fillets for £18, so I bought that and some of their lovely home made sausages. It is much better meat than supermarket meat. The bonus is also you receive a stamp on a card for every £15 you spend. When you have 8 stamps they give you £10.

We took Ellie home and then went to the wood yard to collect more wood for the allotment. We filled the car and then took it to the allotment. We will sort it another day.  I also sorted some plants in the garden.

Thought for the Day – “Take life day by day and be grateful for the little things. Don’t get caught up in what you can’t control. Focus on the positive.”

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