Year: 2022

No rain today and so we took Ellie to the “Beach Buddies” at St Mildred’s Bay. We haven’t taken her for a while and again she chased around with all the other goldies.

It was really nice to meet Barnaby too who is an assistance dog, a guide dog for his blind owner who had a short while off duty to play with all the other goldies.

I spoke to his owner and hadn’t realised that they retire the dogs at 8 but are thinking of extending it to 10 as they don’t have enough dogs. The one I am sponsoring at the moment is Grace, at the beginning of her two years of training.

Ellie slept most of the afternoon! Mal went to the allotment to do some weeding. Unusual to be weeding this time of year. I watched the football.

Thought for the Day – “Every new day begins with possibilities.” ~ Ronald Regan

The sun was out and no rain and so we took Ellie to Minnis Bay.

She loves it down there and ran and ran. She is now much faster sinTce she has lost 6 kg. She has a new lease of life, which is excellent.

Back home in time to watch Wales get beaten by  Iran. Very pleased about that!

I then spent about an hour sorting out Hatters Christmas meal. I can’t believe they can get so confused about when it is/what they have chosen and what they have paid!! A good thing I keep very methodical records of everything. Mal says “it’s because they are all old!!” LOL. One had given me her choices but had paid no deposit and ignored my emails??!

The England game in the evening, disappointing and frankly boring!

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

Shopping in the morning and I bought a Christmas tree on the spur of the moment! Fresh ones seem extremely cheap this year. Mind you, it may be bald by the time Christmas arrives.  I was obviously the first person to buy one as they had to get a screwdriver to undo the crate and then the young lad kindly carried it out for me and manoeuvred it into the car. This was in Lidl.

My theory is you get much better customer service at Lidl and Aldi than the big supermarkets and I love their selections this time of year particularly.

We watched the Brazil game in the evening. A fantastic second goal for Richarlison, Just a shame he doesn’t score like that for Spurs!

Thought for the Day – “One day your life will flash before your eyes – Make sure it’s worth watching.”

Fletcher slept soundly, didn’t hear a thing from him all night. We managed the dog walk before the rain started pouring down. Fletcher may be 13 but he loved to run.

He was collected lunchtime and it was our Hatters meet up at The Stanley Grey at Pegwell Bay.

It was nice seeing everyone but of course we all missed our Queenie.

 

 

 

We walked Ellie and then I called round to see Jackie. At last she is out of hospital but still very weak bless her. At least we had a bit of a catch up before she became really tired, so I came home.

We had Fletcher dog staying with us overnight. He is no trouble at all, just loves sleeping on the sofa in the conservatory!

We watched a lot of football, one of my teams in our family sweepstake is France, at least they won!

My volunteer day at Cancer Research. The shop has changed and doesn’t look quite so welcoming then I heard why. The area manager had visited last week and told Jack things he was doing “wrong”, I don’t think so, it worked the way he had things. He has so much experience, is excellent at his job and boosted sales so what was she talking about?! Surely increased takings and being 6th in the whole country for Stand up to Cancer month speak for themselves. I feel some people “in charge” really ought to hand out praise when it is deserved, not upset hard working staff. Only my opinion.

Anyway, I enjoyed the day and when I left we were the third best takings in the south, doesn’t that mean something?!

I was working during the England game but they relayed the score to me. We watched the other games in the evening.

 

We managed to miss the rain for Ellie’s walk, she did a lot of “sniffing ” along the way, obviously needed to know who had been out while she has been away.

Mal cooked a roast . We watched the football, not a brilliant match. We have a family sweepstake, that makes it a bit more interesting.

Mal went to a Jubilee Centre meeting in the evening. Hopefully it will be opening at the end of January.