Tuesday 17th November 2020 Day 237
7.00 I really intend to get up and moving early today but I have been playing a version of scrabble on my phone and currently have about six games on the go, it is very addictive and it is my turn on most of them and I can’t resist. So I end up getting up three quarters of an hour later, having also reported in on my COVID-19 App to say I am feeling normal and looking up the weather forecast because I am actually venturing further afield today to Eastbourne to walk on the beach with Paula and Herself of course.
9.30 Our little What’s App slimming group where only one of us has managed to lose some pounds this week, suffice to say it wasn’t me but next week will be a different matter……
11.00 As I am not going to Eastbourne until two today, there is the little matter of the dog and the fact that she just will not do her business in the garden any more until I take her out. This means that she cleverly gets two walks today because I worry about her discomfort waiting till this afternoon. So Janet and I meet up in the field for a ball throwing session which doesn’t
go as well as it should after we discovered in the group today that we all have bad shoulders by odd coincidence, surely not a Corona symptom?!! so ball throwing is a bit of a challenge, although Janet manages to perfect quite a good underarm throw with the ball thrower which I wouldn’t have thought was possible.
I have been thinking about my list of things I have always wanted to do but not achieved yet. Some of them frankly are no longer possible or desirable but the top one is that, ever since I first saw one in my teens, I would like to have owned a Morgan. I’ve always loved cars but for me, the lines of the Morgan are special, so now that it is pretty unlikely that I will be the owner of one, I would like to have a drive of one, so if there is anyone out there…………
14.00 I park up by the bandstand in Eastbourne where Paula is waiting and we walk towards Holywell. I have no idea how Audrey will be as we have never walked along a prom before and there are a fair smattering of people and lots of dogs but she is brilliant and behaves perfectly, stopping every five minutes for someone to stroke her and playing with some of the dogs for a few minutes. There is a most extraordinary light in the sky and on the sea today with a rainbow thrown in for good measure, a lone surfer is waiting for a decent wave but the stormy seas from over the weekend have calmed and the only signs of the whipped up water, are piles of stones that have been washed up onto the walkways.
16.15 We are home and as I write this, one black dog who has just been fed, is snoring already at my feet, she’s had a good day.