Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside...

I love living by the sea, it's great in the summer as you can go and have a lovely cool off whenever you want to and in the winter there's always some sort of cracking photo opportunity.

View of Sandown Bay from Rylstone Gardens

We went to Tescos again today to get enough food in to last the rest of the week. Pumped the cars tyres up and headed back home.

After I'd had some lunch I left Matt watching the snooker final whilst I went for a wander around Rylstone Gardens.

Entrance to Rylstone Gardens

Entrance to Rylstone Gardens

It was lovely there, so peaceful and no-one around, all you could hear was the sea, the birds and the waterfall from Shanklin Chine.

Artwork in Rylstone Gardens

Rylstone GardensRylstone Manor HouseRylstone Manor HouseBuilding in Rylstone Gardens

After wandering around the gardens for a while I wandered up past Shanklin Chine and then into the Old Village.

Start of Shanklin Chine waterfallStart of Shanklin Chine

Shanklin Chine

View of Shanklin Chine from the Old Village

Shanklin Old Village

I made my way through the Old Village, past Big Mead and then back to the flat, where I managed to get a picture of our flat.

Big MeadOur flat-the bottom one- from bottom of drive way

After my walk I popped over to Mum and Dad's to see how everyone was and to see if Dad could take my white coat to the dry cleaners in Newport, well my "not so" white coat as it's filthy! He said he would, which is brill I'm so grateful, it's always horrible going into Newport when you don't have a lot of money, as this is where all the best shops are!

I received an email from one of my friends from collage asking if I wanted to go horse riding on Wednesday so hopefully we will meet up and have a good old chat, weather depending on the horse riding though.

Now I'm off to have some popcorn, I love popcorn it's great, although I think I might soon be addicted, lol!

A Down Day

Well not really been up to much today. If I'm perfectly honest it's been a bit of a down day, I don't know why I just feel extremely fed up. Oh aren't I the happy ray of light, lol!

I was messing around on the internet this morning when I had a look on IMDb's news feed, one of the stories was about Bear Grylls, who was born on the island and grew up in Bembridge, and how his wife has given birth to their 3rd son Huckleberry! One of their other son's name is Marmaduke. I just can't believe how mean some people can be to their own children, still each to their own I suppose.

We took a trip out to Tesco's where we bumped in to one of Matt's old friends Mum, who was having a good old whinge about him (Martin her son, Matt's old friend), still it's always good to know he hasn't changed as he's always looking for an argument! We also saw Steve who we had a quick chat with before heading off to the checkout.

On our way back i dropped Matt off at his Mum's then I popped round Mum and Dad's. Poor Mum's had an awful day at work again today, but hopefully now the "big boss" is kicking his son's rear end it may start to get better soon- hang in their Mum xxx

I did her ironing for her as she offered to pay me, she also gave me some petrol and a tin of Bournville chocolate, which I love. Then we tried accessing Mum's hard drive so I could write my thank you letters for my Christmas Presents, unfortunately we just couldn't get the laptop to acknowledge that we had plugged in, and turned on, her hard drive. Technology, tut, it's great whilst it works but when it malfunctions I'm useless!

Dad came in about 5.45 saying that he'd just had another phone call from Auntie Claire, her and Auntie Debra had just been summoned to the hospital where my Nan is as she'd had a heart attack. So all in all I think every ones had a pretty rotten day. I've offered to go up with Dad if he needs to, so then at least I can look after Matthew and Zoe and keep Dad company on the trip as well.

Hopefully I'll have actually done something tomorrow so I have a happier, fuller post to give you.