Coast To Coast

Red pin Broadstairs/ blue pin Trelawnyd

After most of the day on the road

We had a tea of crushed sprouts and ham

Without unpacking the luggage

The dogs have reunited and as one are galloping around the cottage one minute then

Climbing on Chris who is resting weakly on the couch under his laura Ashley throw the other

I have enjoyed our time in Kent

We even got out together on our own...which is a rarity 

So our New Years resolution is to have more nights out Together!

Fat chance tonight though

As Albert has just hurtled through the cat flap with a wide grin on his chops to be reunited with
best buddy Winnie!

It's like the bloody finale of Lassie Come Home
Not a dry eye in the house

Stick that Cracker Up Yer Arse xx

One breakfast out, one walk around the cliffs of Broadstairs, a family meal, a trip to the cinema ( to see the Moses epic EXODUS - don't bother) a gin and tonic with another set of relatives and a large amount of smiling, small talk and chat, and my Christmas visit to Kent is almost over.
To me Christmas is generally all over bar the shouting on Boxing Day , so this prolonged festivity is a new thing for me.
This evening , on a visit to Chris ' uncle, I thought I had literally overdosed with christmas memorabilia as in front of the fireplace, the lady of the house had constructed a complete victorian village complete with snowy pine forest, stream, village bridge and rosy faced snowballing schoolboys

I'm all fucking Christmas-t out!

Ps..the only casualty of Christmas was Sorrel's plastic light up snowman
William pulled the carrot off its face an hour ago
Hey ho

Chase

I am not too far gone to have hated the previous photo of me

So I have changed it for one of William chasing me 

in front of the chalk cliffs of Botany Bay near Broadstairs

Somewhere in Kent

Well we got here in one piece........its 23.35 and I'm having a crafty gin and tonic in the living room of Sorrel's neat little maisonette  after she, the Welsh terriers and Chris have all gone to bed.
Her pristine carpets remain pristine which was more than could be said for Chris' nephew's bedroom, which was liberally peppered with dog turds, just as I was tucking in to the tasty French vol au vents.

And so much of my evening has been spent scrubbing an 11 year old's carpet with a spare facecloth and dettol in front of 100 posters of Dr Who......
Hey Bloody Ho!
I haven't had time to catch up with blogs for a few days so please forgive me......
( I say this as I take one last swig of gin .......with my glass hand smelling somewhat of ...........
Happy Boxing Day
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Ps

I have just been emailed this photo of turncoat George

who is staying at my sister's house

How quickly are we forgotton 

( note the xmas scarf)

In laws

Off to see the in laws

down in Kent!

1. Dr Chris has already laid out enough outfits to keep the cast of Downton Abbey

in clothing for a month

2 Weather warnings have been posted for most of England
3. I have an awful predisposition for car sickness on long journeys !

And

At 5.30 am Meg had me up and bleaching the kitchen floor after

She downloaded a particularly unpleasant and heavy bout of the shits!

Now where's Winnie's all singing fanny cloth when you need it?

I am now worried about my mother-in-law's pristine cream carpets
and marks and Spencer's best duvet set

Hey ho

Post

This Christmas Card got to us yesterday

The envelope amused the postman no end

" you get a load of these strangely addressed cards and letters" 

he quipped the other day when a Christmas card from Canada arrived with

The overly simple address of

John  Gray, 

Trelawnyd, 

WALES 

written on the envelope.

" There are a great many odd people out there" he joked

" there are a few very odd people living here" I answered.

" Bring On The Baby Jesus"

Christmas Eve has a pace all of its own

Jobs to be finished so to speak.

I've bought last minute gifts 

and have caught up with Islwyn and animal helper Pat who will be animal sitting when we are away.

I've made a sherry trifle minutes before Mrs Trellis informed us that she will be bringing one down

to us this afternoon.

The lady from the Still House 

sent around a card with crochet snowflakes in it

and Chris has prepared the Church for the Evening service

when Christine D ceremoniously " brings in the baby Jesus"

There's ham and picalilly for tea
and the only sound from inside the warm cozy cottage is the sound
of William carefully licking the wax from inside the ears of a near comatose Winnie.

HAVE A PEACEFUL AND HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Cheers!

Sometimes I say I have had a shitty shift at work
Today I really did have a shitty shift at work....
I was working alongside an affable despot of a nurse and the two of us had responsibility for three acutely ill patients
we skipped breaks  because we had to, coped with bereaved families, hospital red tape and laughed loud and hard ( but with an edge) when I split my pants transferring a lady from one bed to another
After  I got home, and after eating a load to shit from McDonalds
I received this Message

Fuck it if alcoholic pancreatitis doesn't kill me , something will !

Thanks for making today bearable x x 

Merry Christmas x

Sent from Samsung Mobile

Happy christmas Greta 

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