Sunday 2nd June

Sunday 2^nd June

No blog last night as out and about in the wilds of St Ouen, enjoying a lovely supper with good friends. Although it has to be said we were heard to utter on the way there, “Why do they live so far away”!! I’m sure we would see each other more often if they were 10minutes down the road…..still they do have beautiful sunsets out that way, on a par with our sunrises of course!

Driving into Grouville car park at 8.15am this morning I crossed paths with KH in her spanky new car driving out. She did stop and park up and joined in with my dog walk. She had been taking photos and supporting her husband in his ‘practice triathlon’, although she did confess to ‘missing’ the swim at 7:30am, I don’t blame her!

Had an excellent aerobic workout with the twins (sets you up for the week!)before heading down to the club for a couple of games of tennis. You would have thought that with all the practice I’m getting I would have mastered the basic serve and be able to participate in a short rally, but alas it wasn’t to be, I blame last night’s food/drink consumption! Anyway they say practice makes perfect so guess I need MORE practice!!!

Hubby has been down in his usual spot at the boat park; he has a regular table at the ‘Fisherman’s Rest’ café for lunch and is slowly but surely turning into the true old salty sea dog of St Helier. Today he has added to his general appearance of rugged and  weather-beaten charm with a rather attractive pinkie glow to the back of his legs, brought about by his kneeling to varnish the deck trim for the vast majority of the day, and leaving his calves exposed to the full wroth of the sun. My sympathies extended to reminding him how old he actually is, and how long he has lived in Jersey with the full knowledge of the strength of the sun…..

Meanwhile the mechanic keeps pushing one of his many vehicles into the middle of the yard, playing around with it for an hour and then abandoning it, causing many of us to curse him frequently as we can’t park. Fireman has spent most of his day tinkering with his unworthy sea vessel in the vain hope of actually getting it in the water and the engine started, which was actually accomplished………briefly. Not very clever all of your friends and you being out on your mooring (luckily not on the way to France) in a boat with no power. The mechanic was duly rung up, I think possibly ‘Man from Atlantis’ had also been called but as he was testing the water at le Braye it was a tad too far for a rescue. Super Tom hauled the spare dinghy off the roof of the car and motored out to pick up the sorry party of would be mariners. No doubt they all owe him big time, possibly a few ‘double decker health wreckers’ courtesy of The Hungry Man wouldn’t go amiss.

My youngest nieces birthday today, sweet sixteen, perfect weather for her party, and now she’s on study leave no school tomorrow!

I briefly visited our vegetable garden today, shame the wind is still North West as it makes it chilly, and does not encourage much growth with the pathetic few plants we’ve put out. The runner beans look like they may stay and fight, the courgettes are begging for sunshine and warmth, and the sweet peas have turned yellow and sickly, still, we can but try. 

The Internet seems to be behaving badly again tonight so let’s hope this does actually get posted……

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