An Anything But Wild Night in Margate and The Chemo Begins

 I don't really know why I've this sudden urge to detail my almost-daily life ... maybe simply to relate important changes as they occur. There is nothing TG in this post!

Although Margate's only 30 minutes away, Pauline and I went to Margate last night and stayed over in the Premier Inn. She was due at the hospital this morning at 08.45 and the traffic can be dreadful, so we decided to take a relaxed approach. We ate at 'Angela's', a fish restaurant near the Turner Centre. It's the first time I've eaten in a bistro-type restaurant in England in years and I was really pleasantly surprised at the the way fish cookery has taken off. I had hot-smoked prawns with aioli followed by charcoal-grilled pollock on celeriac mash with horseradish sauce. Pauline also had the pollock, which we agreed  was very nice. It wasn't that many years ago ... 30? that the local fish and game shop in Deal first started stocking pollock and from this link, it still isn't that widely known. By chance I bought frozen Alaskan pollock from Waitrose recently and was surprised that I didn't recognise it ... that's 'cos it's a completely different fish ... that's why! We had Litmus, a nice white wine from the Surrey to go with the meal.

Walking back to the Premier Inn, my mind was swirling with JMW Turner and the imagery he produced at Margate:  

Sunset off Margate Pier 

I am constantly amazed and invigorated by Turner's paintings - they always appear new.

It's a curiousity of being 'old' ... we were back in the hotel by 20.30 and barely made it to the 22.00 news before sleep overtook us!

Today ... today is a new day. After breakfast I dropped Pauline at the Viking Day Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary Hospital in Margate for her to begin her chemo treatment. Just as England is loosening it grip on the populace with respect to covid, she enters the world of the immuno-suppressed for the next 20 weeks. Luckily, Winter will soon give way to Spring and the risk of infections will decrease.

Actually, there is something TG related  ... I wear wigs and my partner may soon be looking for one, so she's relying on my expertise to guide her through the world of wigs!!!