when I woke up I didn’t want to open by eyes because today was my birthday and it meant that I would be 39 - how old is that? Rob assured me that it wasn’t the end of the world, even so my next birthday meant that it would be the big 40! Now they always say that life begins at 40 but I’m not sure how its going to beat the last couple of years but fingers crossed it will! Unfortunately the weather was not on our side today and it the rain was never-ending. It was a rotten old day which meant that we couldn’t really do too much. The only football on the TV was Man U so I had to watch them then I saw a highlight of Chelseas game and was horrified to see Ashley Cole score a cracking own goal which meant they drew with Reading - hmmm thanks Ashley!!! The rain was still relentless so we just kind of chilled around all day which was a bit of a pain as we had wanted to go out walking. Around 4 p.m. the rain started to ease up and by 5.30 ish it had stopped. We quickly grabbed our coats and headed out. As

we crossed over the road we saw a dog lying at the side of the road and as we got closer to it, we saw it had been run over. It was a horrible thing to see and we hoped it didn’t suffer too much. Somewhat subdued we carried on and went for a short walk by the lake. It was good to get out but more dark clouds were looming so we didn’t stay out for too long. That night we had a couple of bottles of wine and Rob made yet more lovely food.

Thankfully when we opened our eyes we saw the sun streaming through the curtains. We were up like a shot and decided that we would take the bus to the peninsula. The peninsula was about an hour away and was supposed to have some great walks. Thankfully the bus wasn’t crowded and we managed to get a seat. The bus arrived at a lake and this is where we got off and headed off on our walk. As we were walking across a car park I saw a dog hanging around so