Thursday

I was up and ready early today and took Totty out for her walk, she is a lazy little dog and enjoys a lie in in the mornings!

I made my way over to the Mount about, 20 minutes. I had no idea what Joan looked like, she had told me short, fat and grey. I waited for her outside the Hot Spa Pools and she turned up and she is short and grey but she is not fat. We had a lovely stroll around the base of the Mount and it was a lovely day. The Mount is very busy with people of all ages walking around and up it, lots of mums with babies in pushchairs, joggers, pensioners and all sorts of shapes and sizes.

After our walk we went over to one of the coffee bars and sat until 12.30 talking and it was really nice and we got on very well. She was born in Gran Canaria and speaks Spanish. She went back to live in England when she was seven. I really look forward to meeting her again as we got on so well - the English sense of humour and it is nice to be able to understand everything that she said - some Kiwis are a little difficult to understand.

I got back in time to have lunch with Jon and in the afternoon I did some washing and finished my book so all in all a good day.

We ran out of gas when I was cooking the dinner last night and we had to put the BBQ bottle on the cooker. Today I had to take the empty bottle to the BP garage and get it filled up. I had no idea what to do so had to ask the man and he did it all for me, so helpful.

Totty decided to chase some birds on the beach this evening and all our obedience classes went out of the window. The tide was out and she raced across the sand and would not come back until she had chased them all away! One day maybe she will listen to me if she doesn't get pecked by a seagull first!