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Tuesday afternoon, we went with June over to Swanley to do some shopping at Asda. Quite a change to visit a large supermarket like that – it has everything, but we can make do with Sainsbury’s on the Island. June insisted on driving us about in her little Micra and we were persuaded to garage the Rover in her garage. It was lovely for us to be spoilt – June is such a spoiler even to the extent of insisting we sleep in her comfortable bed. She has made such a lovely home of her Mobile Park home, and she loves taking us out.
Bluewater was our next excursion – what a fabulous shopping area this is. My main wish was to get to the Apple shop, which we soon found and I spent some time goggling at all the new iPod set-ups – speakers of all kinds and all those marvellous new Monitors, with the Bose and iPod stands getting all the attention. I asked about speakers but was told that my existing speakers would be man enough for my set-up and to spend a lot of money on new ones would be a waste. Who am I to argue with all those experts. We were overwhelmed by all the shops and after a tiring couple of hours, we returned to yet another lovely meal at 42.
Ruth had arranged for us all to meet at Trotters on Sunday, a quaint little old restaurant in Maidstone, not far from the massive walls of the prison. Our table was in the basement and as it was Mother’s Day the place was humming. It was a lovely occasion.
We went on a shopping spree to Tonbridge and both Margaret and June spoilt themselves in Beales. We had a lunch snack in the new Waitrose shop and home to another lovely meal. My birthday on Wednesday and Rebecca invited us to hers and Alan’s bungalow in Maidstone for a birthday dinner and with Ruth’s friend Tin we all set down to a lovely meal with plenty of wine. Up comes a lovely chocolate birthday cake studded with Maltesers (Rebecca knows my weeknesses) luckily for us June was only on spritzers so we got home ok. Next day we were up and packed, ready for our trip south and west to Southampton, keeping off the motorways we enjoyed our drive through the Kent, Sussex and Hampshire countryside, eventually joining the fast road at Petersfield. For the last sprint home.