Friday

Well after yesterday my blog is a bit dull. My daughter laughed till she cried and couldn't see to text me!!! She will get another laugh tonight because H has just sent her a disgusting photo of me, sunburnt to glory and stuffing my face! Mind you I don't care, when you get to 77 like me you can look how you want ant and nobody notices!! I am enjoying my holiday and my life. We cycled this morning after breakfast but only 21 miles instead of 64. I bought a new holiday bag large enough to hold my iPad, passports etc.H just took me out for a wonderful meal, bread with oils etc. And then I had chicken pasta and 2 glasses of wine. We were both too full for anything else. Here are photos of old and new bags and my sunburnt face stuffing pasta.

Thursday

Today has been a day I will remember for the rest of my life!!!! We got up at 6 am and at 7 went down and had a nice breakfast of scrambled egg, rolls and cold meats, followed by toast, butter and jam or chocolate spread. Coffee and o j for H and tea and o j for me. We then went back to our room, cleaned our teeth and got ready to go out on our bikes. We took them out of the boot of the car, unfolded them put the seats in etc. and strapped our bags on the back and off we went. We visited several lovely towns and villages, each with a wonderful church. Here are a few of the names........ Fijnaart, Standdaarbuiten,Oudanbosch, Ettenleur and Zevenberger. On the way from there to Klundert I noticed my Bag had fallen off my rack on the back of my bike!!!! It contained our passports, return ferry tickets, £260 sterling, my heart tablets,my iPad my car key, my brand new rain top, the list goes on........ Before we lost it we had been ot a wonderful Arbouretum in Oudenbosh and also for a nice ice cold beer, ( it's been a scorching hot day ). We then turned round and rushed back in the vain hope of finding it lying on the path. When we got all the way back to Oudanbosch, where I last had it we gave up hope. We called into a cafe to ask how to get in touch with the police, the kind lady took us next door to a florist and the two girls in there were wonderful. They rang the police, got several numbers and addresses for us to visit in the morning to sort out passport s and ferry tickets etc. We then cycled back to our hotel. Altogether today I have ridden 64.28 miles on a small wheeled bike!! We were almost back to our hotel when H had a call on his mobile phone, it was the police, somebody had dumped my bag on their steps and gone off. They thought it was a suspicious package and rang their bomb squad.!!! They arrived and cut my bag in half because they thought unzipping it might trigger an explosion. They found inside the address of our hotel who gave them H's number. They brought the bag back to the hotel and handed it to me fully intact. It gives one their faith in human

nature back... We are both burnt to a cinder after spending around 9 hours in baking sun. We had planned a nice quiet day and a ride of around 30 miles.

Work day

 I had a busy day at work, I had to pick 25 bunches of radishes and then weed one row of leeks. It took till 5 to10. I had my coffee break and then had to go into the greenhouse ( which was like an oven ) take all the side shoots out of the tomatoes and winde them round their string. That took till 12.05 so I planted a row of sweetcorn and it was lunch time. As soon as that was over I went back to the sweetcorn and planted loads more rows. There were 10,000 sweetcorn seeds ! There was a bit of land left at the end so we filled it with peas. It was time for me to leave off but getting home took ages,I had to go through so many traffic lights due to the northern distributer road. My cup of tea was waiting for me and after a nice soak in the bath I am beginning to feel human again. We had chicken curry for dinner.

Sunday

I forgot to blog yesterday!. In the morning I made a cake and had 2 games of cribbage with my son, he won both games!. Then, all of a sudden the sun came out, we haven't seen it for ages so we dropped everything and went straight out to sit in it. Son went climbing at 3 pm,he had intended to go at 2 but spent another hour in the sun instead. When he came home we had our dinner, gammon steaks, home made chips and peas. Later we all had a game of scrabble and joy of joys I won. I think it was the first time ever!! 

Today son and I got ready and went out for a bike ride we went ' off road ' and it was really hard work in places, soft sand halfway up our wheels and in the wood several of the paths were either under water or bogs. I fell off once in the sand and cut my leg on the only Flint in the field and also my chain jumped, my foot shot off my pedal and cut right down my shin. My legs will look great for my holiday!! . We just got home and our daughter, son in law and no 1 Grandaughter all came round. It was lovely to see them after their holiday, looking lovely and tanned. We all sat in the garden with tea and cake. It was a cheese, mushroom and red pepper omelette for lunch and tonight's dinner was chicken, batter puddings, mashed potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, leek and asparagus with gravy.

 

Friday

I have had a lovely day. First I went for my weekly shop, came home, put everything away and had a coffee. Then when our son got up and had his breakfast we got ready and went to Cromer. We went to Mary Janes for fish and chips. After that we went for a walk along the beach and then back to the car and on to Sheringham park for a walk round the beautiful rhododendron's. When we got home we had a cup of tea, and a salad with English strawberries and a nice glass of red wine. Our daughter, son in law and youngest Grandaughter have all arrived safely back from America I am pleased to say and just in time for our eldest Grandaughter's birthday. She is 26 which is as old as I feel so it's a terrible shock each time I look in a mirror.

Workday

I finally managed to get a day at work. It was freezing! I had more clothes on today than I did in the winter. I picked 60 bunches of radishes first then I went weeding, at first I was told I would be weeding for the rest of the day but at 12.15 there was an order come in for 15 boxes of rhubarb so I went to pick that plus 2 more boxes for somebody else. It took me till 3.30 and my boss said I could go home. H was surprised to see me,he was just making the pot of tea. We had eggs, bacon, tomatoes and chips for dinner which was nice. No1 son just rang to see how we are and tonight no 2 son is coming home for his annual house sitting duties. 

Wednesday

Last evening, after I had written my blog, my boss rang to say I couldn't go to work today after all because the fields were too waterlogged. Hopefully I will be able to go tomorrow. We have had even more rain this morning! We had a nice cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch and for dinner we are having salmon, jacket potato and baked beans. We went out this morning to get breakdown insurance for our car for when we are in Holland. It was £50 for a month or £80 for a year so H did it for a year in case we want to go again. We also posted a letter to our no 1 son through his door on the way out and then posted a birthday card to our no1 grandaughter through her door on our way back, she is going to be 26 on Friday. No 2 son says he will ring us this evening to let us know when he is coming home.( either tommorow evening or Friday ) He will be our house sitter again. He won't have much work to do in the garden, the rain we have had means he will only have to water my pots once in the middle of the week and the hanging basket a couple of times. I will leave my ' mister spray' out for him to use on my orchids......... One of my pots