Tuesday 2nd April
A day beginning with mixed emotion, on the one hand a surprise
visit from a neighbour that included a sympathetic ear and two huge hugs (thanks
JdlH) , sadly contrasting with the news that
another dear neighbour and friend had unfortunately lost her own personal
battle with Cancer and passed away. She was a remarkable lady and as well as
being well known in the island had been extremely supportive to me and my
family since my diagnosis , I am sure I am not alone in saying she will be
missed by many. Our prayers and condolences are with her family, may she rest
in peace.
Our dog went to work with Jack today, he had some ‘post’
work to do, not delivering letters, but actually thumping wooden posts in the
ground and putting up fences. Jess was very well behaved and enjoyed racing
around the field all morning. Meanwhile I headed off to the Merton and enjoyed
gym and swim- it’s a good way for me to ‘deal’ with things, I always feel
better through having had some exercise.
A supermarket shop was a definite necessity, and although
knowing that I needed a fairly large amount of food why then do I always take
the smaller trollies? I ended up running out of bags and piling things up on
top of everything- dreading being asked for a re-scan at the checkout- but luckily
not this time!
Arriving back home with a laden car Jess runs out to greet
me and promptly leaps into the car boot, landing on seven bags of shopping!!
After spending the last five months trying to encourage her to jump into the
car, we can’t stop her now!!
I intended to drive out west today for meet up with a friend,
but had to postpone it as it was getting late- plus most of the family were out
in the garden/meadow and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to get a few
vital jobs done.
The grass was cut and the edges trimmed and strimmed (hubby and I ) some landscaping of the meadow
and gorse removal as attempted but proved a much harder job than first thought
(I’ll leave the technicalities of the process to an engineer to describe later).
‘Day off Dan’ who couldn’t go to sea as the weather was too
windy/rough, suggested out of the blue that we (as in he, Tom and I) could go
to Bento (sushi restaurant in town) for some supper this evening. This ‘idea’
was mooted around the rest of the family until the other members not wanting to
miss out on the ‘new dining experience’ joined us. Amazingly we all met up at
the restaurant and managed to get seats, Tom and Dan being the ‘experts’ instructed
us on the how and what to eat out of the various delicious dishes that were
whizzing around on the conveyor belt. It was good. We did end up amassing 28
plates of food- (you have to keep the colour coded bowls till the end when they
‘add’ them up for the bill).
It is funny, dad remarked on the way home that despite it
being the ‘boys’ idea, he ended up paying the bill!! Fortunately the dishes on
the conveyor belt were ‘half price’ on a Monday and Tuesday- hence us all
piling down there this evening!
Photos of the exciting car rally-
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