What a Grey Day

Just to make up for my very early morning yesterday, lol, I permitted my self to have I lie in today. I didn't get out of bed till gone 11 o'clock and then had a nice long soak in the bath, though I must admit I never thought I'd get in a bath again after watching the Christmas episode of Jonathan Creek!

Mum and Dad bought me some lovely smellies for Christmas, the ones I'm using at the moment are by Soap & Glory and I love them! I would highly recommend them to anyone and everyone. They make your skin fell really soft and they all smell great.

Soap & Glory products

After I had finished "pruning" myself, as Matt calls it, we went for a quick walk along Shanklin seafront. I must admit we did cheat a little bit by driving down and parking on the revetment, but it was gone 2 o'clock when we left the flat and I wanted to be at Mum's by 3. The wind was extremely cold and even Matt found it too cold,which is definitely saying something because he's still wearing shorts! We must have looked a right pair as I had multiple jumpers and a coat on, as well as hat, scarf and gloves!

I got some cracking photo's, though when I get a job I think I might start saving for a decent camera, as they never come out as well as I would like them to on my phone camera.

It was quite rough today, I think, don't quote me on this though, it was a force 7, but I wasn't paying much attention to the weather forecast. In some places the waves where even splashing up onto the revetment even though the tide hadn't fully come in!

Shanklin Seafront

Waves crashing over a slipway in Shanklin

Looking back to the Stink-Pot, Shanklin seafront

We didn't stay out long as it was just far too cold! So I dropped Matt back off at the flat and then made my way to Mum's, dropping in at Lidls first to pickup some mince meat for her. Poor Mum had had a rather frustrating day at work and being woken up at stupid o'clock this morning by my Auntie didn't help. She very kindly phoned them to say that my Nan had been admitted into hospital again, I don't really know what she expected Dad to say or do as we live about 250 miles away from each other! You would have thought she could have waited a little bit longer and called them at a decent hour, I know I would have probably hung up on her if she had disturbed my sleep, but hey that's just me. Oh well I know her hearts in the right place.

Once Elena was in from school and had got herself ready we set off for Newport. We parked at Dad's work- beats paying car park fees- and walked down to the cinema.

Mum very kindly gave us a bogof voucher she'd got from McDonald's and the money to pay for the other ticket as well as some drinks and sweets. Elena and I were the only people in the screen it was brilliant, like having your very own home theatre!

We watched Bedtime Stories, the new Disney movie with Adam Sandler. Who looks exactly like Rich a lad I used to work with!

Rich

Adam Sandler

The film was great, full of laughs, a definite must see. We also saw a couple of ads for a few new films that look really good, well when I say a couple of ads we actually watched 20 minutes of them before the film got going! One of them was for The Secret of Moonacre starring Dakota Blue Richards, the girl out of The Golden Compass, I also really want to the new Brendon Fraser film Inkheart, and I can't wait for Angels and Demons to come out, but according to IMDb it's not due to be released in the UK until the 15th of May! What are they playing at?!?

Cineworld in Newport

Elena very kindly took a picture of the cinema advertising Bedtime Stories for me as my camera just wasn't up to the job, thanks Elena xxx.

We went back to Mum and Dad's for tea, lasagna yum, I feel just like Garfield I love lasagna I think it's got to be one of my favourite pasta dishes.

Mum and Dad have been clearing out their kitchen cupboards ready for their new appliances and it's brill because anything they don't want any more comes my way, so I came home with a bag full of goodies tonight, including freeze blocks which will be brill for the summer at the yacht club.

Now I'm back at home listening to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and thinking I should really go to bed as it's almost midnight. Well bye for now.

Bobbing along

As it was such a lovely day we decided that we'd go for a walk along the seafront.

We're living in a lovely area at the moment, just up the road from Rylstone Gardens, and about a 5 minute walk from Fisherman's steps, which takes you down on to the beach, unfortunately they are a little bit steep and today quite slippy, luckily I was sensible and put my lovely big No Fear boots on.

View from Fisherman's steps of Sandown Bay and Culver cliff

Fisherman's Cottage taken from Fisherman's steps
Matt walking down Fisherman's steps Shanklin beach

As we were walking towards the Fisherman's Cottage we saw Katie, one of the girls from Woolies, and Simon taking photo's and "killing time2 before her driving lesson.

Fisherman's Cottage

Shanklin seafront

Beach hut's along Shanklin seafront

We as far as Little Stairs, where we saw Melvyn Hayes, the man from Summer Holiday and the Young Ones, and decided that we wanted some lunch and a nice drink so we headed back. All of the seafront is nice and flat, and we were fine until we got back to Fisherman's steps which was when I found out that I am completely unfit! My breathing was fine but my hips were on fire by the time we got to the top, lol!

Bottom part of Fisherman's steps

The place we are living in at the moment comes with free Internet access, all we have to do is go to the main house every 2 weeks to get a new slip that gives us our user name and password. Whilst I was waiting for Miles to print me one off I decided to take a photo of their gremlin that's next to their front door , I love it!

After lunch we thought we'd have a quick trip into Newport to have a look at the boats along the Quay side. There were some lovely ones there, and some not so lovely ones, they're all out of the water at the moment to be cleaned and prepped for the summer, it was certainly a sight, unfortunately me phone battery died so I couldn't take any pic's, oh well will have to go again.

Well that's about it for today, going to go and read through some leaflets I got from the lady at Next step on Saturday, as I have a meeting with her tomorrow, and get to sign on for the first time- joyous, hopefully we'll come up with some good ideas so I can sign off sharpish!