I can hardly feel my fingers to type will be a challenge. Just
got in from a long walk. Long for me. It’s my second walk of three and a half
miles. 5.6 k. my first walk was just
under that. Our dogs will be sleeping well tonight as they went for a free run
first for an hour and then straight out for a big walk but this time on harness
working. I came in, cranked the heating up and gave them their dinner, Hub took
them out to pollute and now they are curled up in their bed. I’m sitting with a
warm cup of tea and just about getting the feeling back in my legs. It’s fresh
out there. On our way there it started to snow and, on the way, back it
continued rather heavily. But whilst we did the flat lovely walk along the promenade,
it was sunny without wind. The sea was lashing against the rocks and walls. I loved
it. It is the start of me trying to get fitter. We walked really fast too.
I was saying to Hub the sea doesn’t smell like the sea, any
more, he says it’s because they have cleaned all the seaweed up from the sands
and it was that which gave the coast the fragrance, we all remember as children
and even in my case an adult. It was a
smell that made me feel good. I miss it. The seagulls were doing their stunts
but luckily, they kept away from us. May be our fir balls scared them off.
Our dogs are so good at the beach, we never let them off but
on harness in the country my Waggs is shocking, will not guide too busy sniffing
but at the beach she is fantastic as for the Little Fella he is fantastic all
the time. He is such a goody two shoes. But not if you leave him in a room in
our house with a toy, he will eat it or try to. He broke another toy yesterday.
It was Waggs favourite too. If we were with him, no bother he will be so gentle
with it, but leave him, and you are asking for trouble. We went into our
conservatory. We were twenty minutes may be max half an hour. Returned to the
sitting room to find a rather dead toy in the middle of the rug.
I’m going to put the
Lotto on now and then turn on the evening lighting. I put lamps on in our
sitting room and conservatory. I like it to look homely. I was saying to Hub
the other day, when our boy moves out, I wonder if I will still bother? I would
like to think so, but who knows. I mean it’s not like they help us to see. Haha.
I wish.
To live in a constant dark house though I think would feel
odd. I wonder what my friends who are blind do? I am sure they will have lights
on as most of my friends who can’t see, have people in their house who can,
either a husband, wife or child. I have one friend who lives on her own, I must
ask her what she does. Personally, I think she will have some light on, even if
it is just to let people know there is someone in the house.
I have told you this story before though, a couple I knew
years ago, she was deaf and blind he was blind. We visited them as they were an
elderly couple. It was when I could see. I was a child I was with my parents. When
it came to four in the afternoon, we were just about to leave. But for the last
few minutes we were there, my Mum put a light on. It didn’t work. So, she went
to the next room to put a light on there as it was winter and getting dark. That
light didn’t work either. As we were leaving, the hall light also didn’t work.
My Mum told them their lights weren’t working, turned out they hadn’t put a
bulb in for at least a dozen years. Bless them. It made me sad though I was
only about ten at the time, to think that no one visited them in the evenings.
There are so many people out there who never have a visitor.
My heart breaks for them.
Well seems we have been to the beach today, I thought I would
leave you with these beach facts.
Most white beaches as in sand, is the excretion from a
particular kind of fish. The fish feeds on coral which is broken down within
the fish and the little granules emerge as fresh new grains of sand that will
eventually wash up on the shore. Well we are OK in England as we have golden
sand…
In 1934, King George V decided that Londoners deserved a
beach. It stayed in our capital until 1971. Obviously, the sand came from
elsewhere.
Britain contains the safest and cleanest beaches in the
world.
Our coast is only two hours max from anywhere. So, no matter
where you live, you are no more than a couple of hours away.
Our coast is three times longer than the coastline of Spain
and five times longer than the coast of France.
We have beautiful beaches that’s for sure. Walking towards
the beach today, there were little shops selling buckets and spades as well as
shops selling really thick jumpers. Hahaha. I love to walk along the beach when
it’s nipping cold. I love the air. It’s so fresh. We have not only cliffs but
miles and miles of flat sands.
We have these tiny beach huts people either buy or rent. You
keep your deckchairs in there and anything else you may require for a day on
the sands. They are in lines along the prom and they are painted in all
different colours.
Well my Son is making his own dinner tonight, so a night off
as Hub and I shall grab something easy. Great a day off for me and tonight Hub
and I shall watch our TV and share a small box of chocolates we have left from
Christmas. I guess undo the good work our walk has done,
There’s lots of work for me to do tomorrow so today is my
chill day, as in relax also as in blooming cold. Haha.
Take care until next time. X
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