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 Hello Ladies, I’ve been MIA due to being ill, I had some kind of gastric infection for two weeks, after not being able to get a doctors appointment for a week my husband took me to the emergency department, happily for me it was my own doctor who was on duty, I was pleased as she knows me and speaks English, we had been googling words to describe my sickness just in case the doctor didn't speak any English.

I had a jab in the bottom for sickness and pills but it took me six days before I could eat, I’m still feeling weak even after three weeks but now my husband is on crutches, after we had to stand in line for four hours for his second vaccine and my first, he’s somehow hurt his foot, I actually sat in the car for the first three hours as I couldn’t stand in the sun after feeling so ill. There’s been so many complaints to the council they had to put a letter online to apologise although last week it was just the same when we drove past.

Between our family we have had three of the vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson so it will be interesting how we all fare.

Luckily my husband can still drive and I needed to shop so we decided to try a beach side cafe for breakfast, we could park right outside so no walking for him, gorgeous views!

View from the decking, these are Pop up Cafes that are built in the Spring and  usually disappear during the Autumn.

This is the view to the right of the Cafe, that's the small Church I've shown before but from the back.

Looking towards the small Marina.

I'm guessing these are where people sit in the evenings when it's cooler!

My drink for this week, shame the coffee was in a cardboard cup but at least it was a patterned one and it was good coffee.

Our small veg plot is growing well, the strawberries are growing so much, I’ve had to freeze most of them as we’ve had too many to eat. 

Sunday I made strawberry Fluff, weight watches recipe, just Greek yoghurt and a packet of jelly(jello) whipped up, unfortunately it didn’t all set!

It was tasty but more like a semi set milkshake, LOL

I took this photo yesterday and it has set much better, I had to spoon it into the dishes so it doesn't look as neat as on the recipe!

I’m pleased that our currant bushes have fruit on them for the first time, I think they heard the rumour that this year was their last chance, I’m happy to see one of the bushes is the red currant, they are slowly turning red, the black currant is growing but no fruit but I think that will survive for another year as that’s actually my husbands favourite for jam so hopefully next year it will fruit.

These are our bush Tomatoe plants, the strangest ones I've ever seen, they are only about 8 inches high although we've had quite a few, enough to make three pasta sauces!

We've now planted some normal cherry Tomatoe plants so they will fruit as these are finishing, well that's the plan.

I haven’t managed to craft at all as it’s just too much effort but hopefully next week we will both be fit as fiddles as my Mum used to say! So until then, keep safe!

Jan x