On The Island

I went outside and my car was frozen! A quick defrost and we went to Minster to walk Ellie.  The sun was out by the time we arrived but Ellie still wanted to roll in the frosty grass.

We posted Christmas parcels on the way back.

In the evening we went to see Jim Davidson in Ramsgate. Not good or should I say the years have not done him any favours, he just tried to make jokes and failed most of the time. I wonder how many others left in the interval as we did. However we didn’t expect the foul weather. The theatre is on Ramsgate sea front and there were 55 mph gusts , we were nearly blown over and got soaked getting back to the car. Not a good evening.

 

Mal spent ages looking for the rest of the Christmas decs in the loft. We really must clear that loft out and take loads into the shop!

I sorted all the presents that have to be posted.

Quite a beautiful Cold Moon out in the sky.

We watched the West Ham game, a draw but they are still in the relegation zone!!

Again we managed to dodge the rain and walked round the orchards in Wingham.

The apples have run out of at the allotment, so we called into the farm shop on the way home to buy some of their Jazz apples. They are so good.

It then seemed to rain for the rest of the day. I heard from Penny and the shop was shut.  I knew Jack just didn’t seem right on Monday so I messaged him and sure enough he has flu!!! Great, he better not have given me his germs! Poor thing.

Mal put up the Christmas decorations and I wrapped more presents. I bought a huge heavy duty roll of Christmas paper in TKMaxx and guess what? Mal found two more big rolls in the loft! Typical.

 

 

Today I posted a small Christmas card to North Cyprus – £3.90!!!

At least Spurs managed a draw against Newcastle but a painful game to watch and not one of our players were English!

A work day, horrendous wind coming off the sea which is probably why we were quiet first thing but then it got busy. Jack was back but wasn’t his usual self. I put it down to him being off for a week.

Four of us Red Hat Ladies booked to go to Bruges Christmas market and were more than surprised when they told us the pick up time in Sandwich was 5.25am! We were all there and the coach arrived at 5.45. We arrived at Dover Docks at just after 6. We went to board the ferry and were told to drive to the cruise ferry terminal. A queue of coaches there and they were supposedly using their new system. Total chaos.  Eventually we were led into a building with two desks manned by the French Border Force. If you went to one you had fingerprints taken and a photo, the other didn’t bother with the fingerprints! One of the border force even shouted at one of the passengers saying she used the wrong hand! They didn’t have my fingerprints! Back on the coach and back to the other ferry port but they wouldn’t let us through the check in. Passports all taken away and checked again! No one knew what was going on and we missed our ferry to Dunkirk! In total we were at Dover Docks for THREE hours! Then we had to take the ferry to Calais.  I hope they will sort this out some time in the near future because no one seemed to know what they were doing.

After that we did have a good day, and had vouchers for breakfast on the ferry.

It was quite a walk from the drop off to the market and the shops were beautiful, obviously the price of their chocolate greatly increased and we thought the market was smaller than expected. We walked around a lot and then decided we would go in one of the horse and carriages but went to the wrong pick up point and then decided we didn’t have time to walk all the way back again. Instead we went for waffles and Irish coffees!!

It did rain a little but we didn’t get too wet.

 

A walk around Knees Wood with the sun out!