Author: Maggie Daniel

A lovely sunny day. We went to Wingham orchards, so many chestnuts all over the ground. I have never seen so many there.

 

We collected some to take home and roast to use for the stuffed squash (from the allotment) for dinner.

It really is a good year for apples, so many in the orchards, soon to be collected.

We stopped at the farm shop on the way home so Mal could buy some things for the allotment eg garlic.

I managed to get Ellie to walk down the stairs but then the weight is on her front legs, not on the back. Bit by bit!

We were off to London for the day and so took Ellie over to Josie for her to look after her and left the car at Faversham and caught the train from there. Of course a Saturday so London was heaving. Thankfully we avoided the demonstration in Trafalgar Square where over 500 were arrested, more pensioner terrorists I am guessing!!  We caught the bus from Victoria to China Town and found a nice noodle bar where we were the only non Chinese in there, always a good sign! The food was very good.

Then time for the theatre. We went to see Just for one Day – Live Aid. It was sold out and so good. The music obviously, the singing and the acting, all top class.  In fact it surprised us both how excellent it was.

The train back to Faversham by which time Lou and Rhys were home, so lovely to see them. Josie had taken Ellie for a walk and she just stopped and wanted to go home. She is getting a bit stubborn! Poor girl is going deaf and I had to explain that to Josie, not to come from behind her as she jumps because she can’t hear.

 

A longer walk for Ellie over the fields. We timed it to miss the rain.

Ellie’s walk was over the fields in Eastry and she wanted to go further than we walked but we had her post op check up with Sorrell at the vets.

The receptionists at the vets make such a fuss of Ellie and feed her gravy bones. She is now 26.8 kg so very acceptable, seeing as we have been giving her extras, feeling sorry for her!

Sorrell checked Ellie all over and was impressed that she was almost back to normal and seemed very lively too. So good to hear. She has recommended hydrotherapy which we will look into and now we can get her gently back into always off lead and managing the stairs!! Yeah. We are very happy.

Last thing at night we tried to get her to walk up the stairs and she tried putting one leg forward and then the other and then she panicked, so we’ll try another day, Mal carried her up again!

Dentist (Canterbury) in the morning.  I had a very long chat with Zareen. Yes, she had received the letter from periodontal.  She informed me periodontal are no longer taking new patients countrywide!! We decided to have my tooth extraction in January as perio would not be operating for a long time, so she said she would draw up a “plan” for me.

I called in at the huge Canterbury Asda on the way home and was impressed by the ranges they carry.

A bit of a shock to receive an email from Cancer Research (to ALL volunteers) informing us that they will be closing 90 shops by May and up to 100 more in the following year. They sent it to all of us at the same time. Obviously then we are all contacting our Managers. Wouldn’t it have been a nicer way for the Managers to let us know face to face? Poor Jack with all of us getting in touch with him.  Thankfully ours is not one of them.

A nice sunny day and so we took Ellie to Ramsgate. She really was ready for a long walk.

We bought a new kettle last week and even though we boiled it several times, it tasted of plastic and so we returned it and received a refund. We will have to look again. We are frequently finding buying anything nowadays is a gamble.

Spurs game in the evening, lucky to get a draw!

The day at work.