On The Island

An early morning walk with Ellie in light rain, quite refreshing.

I had an appointment with “maxillofacial”. To be honest I was sitting shaking in the waiting room after the pain I went through last time.  Doc Nicole had left and this time I saw Kwok. He was a very nice man but I just stood and asked him why I was there, why I went to Maxillo at Ashford Hospital, Canterbury Hospital and Dover hospital, then Dover Health Centre, Sandwich dentist and now Faversham health centre. His answer was the hospitals decided I would be better served by the periodontal service which basically is for gum disease rather than cancer! He checked all my records and said I need 3 more teeth to be operated on and one was loose and needed removing by my dentist.  I told him my dentist hadn’t a clue what was going on and he said it was not common practice to communicate!!! BUT he said he would send a letter to my dentist explaining everything. Nice man, kind but then I think he realised how upset I was. But I had to laugh, I have to make an appointment for scale and polish, which isn’t until November and will assess which tooth to operate on. The nurse then said his list for operations was long, the amusing bit, I could be dead before all this is done!! At least he was kind and thoughtful.

I also said I wanted to go private to get new dentures and if the teeth were only on the top he had to operate on, then I could get a bottom one. He told me not to waste my money as it may not fit after the ops! At least he was helpful too.

At least I won’t be quite as nervous going next time!

I walked Ellie and tried to see if she wanted to walk a little further but over the fields, she just turns around when she has had enough, still recuperating bless her.

We have been  catching up with Destination X!!

Lights have come on in my car , due to cheap supermarket diesel! I usually use Esso but last fill up was at Tesco. I need to run some of the diesel down before I can add some cleaner. So, I took it for a drive along the A2, lights still on, Dover and back, still on! What a pain.

We went back to Whitfield  and tried at Halfords, soooo unhelpful.  We then asked at B&Q.  For a change a really helpful girl who told us to go along the road to GSF Car Parts as she said they were really helpful. They were and gave us a really good “cleaner” to use. Really nice people in there as well. Not everyone is grumpy but Halfords were! I just have to run the diesel down a bit more before we use it.

I heard from Rhys , they are in a caravan in Cornwall and have been crabbing this morning!

Oh dear Hammers lost their game again!

Bank Holiday but the shop was open and so I went into work.  It really wasn’t worth opening for the amount we took.

We drove to Shepherdswell to walk around Knees Wood. Another road closure and diversion, so a trek around all the other village roads. Eventually we arrived at the woods and as we were walking round  , a couple with two dogs stopped to talk to us. The lady dropped her dogs treat and she did this quite near Ellie so the dog attacked Ellie! I couldn’t believe it and then she said “oh he is food protective”. Poor Ellie hadn’t a clue what was going on but it shook her up, thankfully the other dog didn’t draw blood, probably because of Ellie’s thick coat.

We then had a coffee at The Colonel’s Cafe.

In the afternoon we went to the Cattle Market Party in town. All free, well that was how it was advertised. If you wanted a table it was  £25 !! People were quite annoyed by that, it has always been free.

We decided to change our internet provider as they want to double our payments. We contacted Virgin and managed a good deal. That was the beginning of August. They failed to arrive on the day booked (told us at 4.30 that they weren’t coming) and today messaged to say extra works needed to be carried out and so they will come on 25th SEPTEMBER!!! Terrific service and we haven’t even started yet.

This week, Micky next door to us had requested  a charger fitted to his house to charge his electric work van. FIVE vans arrived and TEN men. Thankfully I wasn’t here for the road being dug up as I was at work. The road/pavement barricades were still up when I arrived home, obviously unfinished. A long story short, they couldn’t do it and had to return to clear up the mess and fill in the holes!!! But while they were here, one of the guys had a Virgin T shirt on (he also worked for Virgin some of the time)  so Mal spoke to him about our new instillation and he said “that will be awkward here”.

What can I say life has become so much more complicated.  Mal spent the entire morning cancelling Virgin…if only they would let you speak to a person. Then back to Sky again who let us have it for half the original price , And yes, we did try negotiating before leaving them!! WHAT??!!

Ellie and I went over the fields.

Then I went to the cemetery to place new flowers for Torin and clear up some of the petals from the rose bushes I planted.

Back home to watch the Spurs game. The best I have seen them play in a long while and we beat Man. City! I am not sure how long it will last but at the moment we are TOP!

We took Ellie to the fields in Minster, had a really nice walk and as we were about to leave, they had blocked and closed the road! As I drove up they had to move everything and then asked if there were many more cars. Erm yes, perhaps they should have checked first and informed people in advance!

A very poor game for Hammers in the evening, in fact Mal turned it off!