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Malteaser Surprise!

08 Jun 2016 32 Comments

by Ritu in Awards, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: ABBA's, Animals, Annual Bloggers Bash Awards, Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Excited, Vote Now

Eeeek! 3 sleeps to go until you know what!

I am driving people potty with my talking about it all the time!

I thought, since I am meeting all of you for the first time, I’d do a very Indian thing which is to bring something sweet, and what better than something sweet and bubbly, like me! ;P (And of course I promised Hugh!)

It had to be Malteasers! They have already featured on my blog as they are my favourite chocolate subject, and I even did a huge comparison and debate post comparing our Malteasers to the Stateside version, Whoppers! (Ours won, of course!)

So…

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Let’s hope I don’t get peckish in advance, or on the train, and that the temperature isn’t too hot, melted Malteasers aren’t the best!

Just did a bulk buy shop in Asda. The woman at the till just stared, and I said, “Don’t ask….!”

Soooo excited!

Oh, and while I’m on the subject of the Blogger’s Bash, there are now less than 24 hours until the votes close, so if you haven’t…

… vote now! Just click here to vote!

And I know I am asking for your support on this award, but there are many other awards, and such deserving blogs, so cast your votes for all of them! The votes close at 10pm UK time on Thursday 9th June, that is TOMORROW!

The Circus

17 Apr 2015 20 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Animals, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, children, Circus, Family

The circus is in town this week…

What a great way to entertain the kids… And expensive! £41 for 3 tickets, but we did go ring side… And another £8.50 for candy floss, popcorn and drinks!

I’ve always loved the circus…
I even saw many before they banned the animals.
I recall seeing the Moscow State Circus when they traveled to the UK, in Birmingham, and being in awe! Then I had the opportunity to see it again in its actual home, in Moscow, Russia!
This was where I saw the effects of a circus on some of their animals, and I wholeheartedly agreed with the ban.
There was a beautiful , glossy furred black bear doing tricks, and another, almost more eaten one that was alongside it. He had clumps of missing, and looked so tired. If he missed a trick, he got whipped… It cut through my heart seeing them treat that poor animal so… Whereas the other one was obviously flavour of the month, fed well, treated like a king.
Anyway, back to today!

We saw Santus Sugars… Hula hooping!

And this woman had 10 hoops!

I can just about manage one!!!

A circus is not complete without a clown!

And I love Ariel acts!!

And that was just the first half!!!

After an obligatory picture with the novelty act… A Transformer… Hey they gotta do something while not filming!

There were more Ariel acts

And motor bikes, a human slinky, as well as the Transformer!

A great experience, but its still different to when I was young… the clowns and comedy act, though they got the kids laughing, not the same level of slapstick as before… and I know the animals had it hard, but most of the time they were damn cute and gorgeous… I know someone will think I’m awful for saying that, but as a kid, what was I to know???

It was a lovely, if expensive evening, and now we’re home ready for pizza! And an earlyish night as we have the Vaisakhi Parade to attend tomorrow!

Did you like the circus when you were younger? Or do you still go, like me? (But then you all know I’m a big kid still!)

Our Day at the Zoo

17 Feb 2015 2 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Animals, Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, children, Elephants, Endangered, Fun, Gorillas, Howletts, Rhinos, Zoo

Yesterday, we had a great day! The visit to Howletts went swimmingly!

We had great weather, no rain, even though Lil Princess still managed to be smothered in mud waist down(??!).

The animals were fantastic!

We saw elephants, rhinos, many different monkeys and primates, like gibbons, and macaus, baboons, tigers, leopards, wild dogs, fishing cats, pallas cats, lemurs, river water hogs, bongos ~(did you even know there was an animal called a bongo?!)

Mummy and baby

Sibling tussle!

This guy was so cute, he’d hit a box hung high with his trunk and it would shower him with carrot bits to eat!

Hungry!

Lemur

Lemurs!

Loud lemur!

Did you know lemurs got their name from the Latin word for ghost? In days of old, they would hide in the forest canopies and the humans would not know where the noise came from! They thought they were ghosts!