No, it seems the usual style - have a look on Tripadvisor
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No, it seems the usual style - have a look on Tripadvisor
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Used to pick up my wife's cousin from the airport and he used to say that all the time. He lives in Ashford near Heathrow and it never gets properly dark.
Has a couple of walks in the peaks today. Early morning one with the dog - she loves the sights and smells of the countryside. Walked in the lanes but came back through fields.
This afternoon we went to the Longshaw estate for another walk.
She's knackered!
This afternoon we went to the Longshaw estate for another walk.
She's knackered!
For a treat, I walked the dog up to the Ford this morning. She wasn’t impressed!
Today we went to Bakewell. Had a walk around, bought a few items in the cook shop, had a pastie for lunch and brought some Bakewell tarts back to the cottage to have with a cuppa. Went out for a meal at the Bear inn quite close to us tonight. Back home tomorrow.
Today we went to Bakewell. Had a walk around, bought a few items in the cook shop, had a pastie for lunch and brought some Bakewell tarts back to the cottage to have with a cuppa. Went out for a meal at the Bear inn quite close to us tonight. Back home tomorrow.
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For a treat, I walked tge dog up to the Ford this morning. She wasn’t impressed!
Today we went to Bakewell. Had a walk around, bought a few items in the cook shop, had a pastie for lunch and brought some Bakewell tarts back to the cottage to have with a cuppa. Went out for a meal at the Bear inn quite close to us tonight. Back home tomorrow.
Did you get a Bakewell pudding. That's the one with flaky pastry and no icing.
No. I fancied trying the pudding but funnily enough, as I was in the shop queueing up, someone in front of me asked the shopkeeper what the difference between the pudding and the tart was. She told them that the 'pudding' should be warmed up and served with custard. I changed my mind and bought two slices of Bakewell loaf - one with icing, the other with sliced almonds on top.
I woke up this morning too early, nipped to the toilet, then back in bed for another hour. In bed, I am normally far too warm, but back in bed I began shivering, and I couldn't breath properly - my chest felt as if I had a steel band around it, preventing me expanding my chest. I put up with it, for a while, my feet turned to blocks of ice, so I switched the blanket on. I thawed out, the chest tightness went, and I fell back asleep for a couple of hours. When I eventually got up, I felt absolutely normal again.
Worth getting yourself checked out Harry, could have been something to do with the heart.
I have to make an appointment, in a couple weeks, I'll mention it then.
I installed a sound triggered recording app, on my phone, a while ago, with the intention of recording some of the dogs incredible, and weird noises that she makes. Moans, groans, growls, whines, sighs, and some which I have even mistaken for words. She's at her noisiest, when laid relaxing, on her bed. This morning she was having an especially noisy session, laid in the corner, on her bed - so I set the phone up, laid it on her bed, beside her. It sat there for two hours, and not a peep out of her.
I did think it sounded like a panic attack. But you don't seem to be the sort of person who would suffer with those!
Right, I'm not the panicking type usually, but a couple of years ago, very occasionally, I would wake up in the middle of what I would describe as a panic attack. The weird part, I wasn't even sure what I was panicking about, I was just panicking. I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, so I would take the dog for a steady walk, to clear my head.
T'other morning was unlike that - I got back into bed, after being out for only a minute, bed still warm, but began trembling with cold, tight chest. When I eventually got up, I was still feeling none too bright, so in the evening, after dinner, I had a long soak in a hot bath, after which I was fine again.
Dog walk
Weekly food shopping
Cleaned the A3 - hasn’t been done since well before Christmas and it was rotten. I do like cleaning a car when it’s really dirty - you notice and appreciate it much more than if you keep it clean all the time!
Being the old romantic I am, there’s a French restaurant in Hornchurch and Mrs Mottie always comments about the lovely smells that come out of it when we walk past it so as a special Valentines day treat, I took her up there and walked her past it several times. Just joking.
I went to Sainsbury’s and bought a valentines meal deal and cooked it at home.
Weekly food shopping
Cleaned the A3 - hasn’t been done since well before Christmas and it was rotten. I do like cleaning a car when it’s really dirty - you notice and appreciate it much more than if you keep it clean all the time!
Being the old romantic I am, there’s a French restaurant in Hornchurch and Mrs Mottie always comments about the lovely smells that come out of it when we walk past it so as a special Valentines day treat, I took her up there and walked her past it several times. Just joking.
I went to Sainsbury’s and bought a valentines meal deal and cooked it at home.
Been busy with the spade today. Went round the back of our house and dug up some wild English bluebells. Yeah, I know you're not supposed to but so what. Replanted them in the bed in my street that I have adopted. Then, over the allotment for some more digging. Dug up a bed to two spade depths, filled it with home made compost, split and replanted some rhubarb plants and then filled it in. Should have some nice rhubarb later in the year. Filled up two large builders containers with wood chippings from the allotment pile and took them home for my community bed. I’m going to have to put a sign up on that bed - some lazy bastard is bagging their dog **** and chucking it at the back of the bed behind the postbox. If they don’t heed that warning, I’ll have to do what I did a couple of years ago when someone was chucking their cider cans in the same spot. I trained the cctv camera at the front of my house onto the area and caught the bugger. It was some bloke who had a secret drink problem and walked the street drinking his cider where his wife couldn’t see him. Printed out some photos of him doing it, posted them next to the spot and warned that I knew who he was and any further cans will be dropped back to his house. He initially ripped the photos up but he stopped dumping them there. On our local Facebook page, he's one of the whingers that complain about people who leave litter in the streets!
