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The Lurgy Returns!!!!

17 Feb 2015 23 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Birthday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, children, Cold, Family, Get Well Soon, Sick, U Unwell

So we’ve managed a few weeks, cold and cough free, it’s been wonderful!
Celebrated my brother in laws birthday, Hubby Dearest’s and mother in laws birthday have passed, and we have a couple of days until it is Lil Princess’s 7th, and my Father in laws…
So why oh why do the sneezes decide to turn up NOW???!!
Lil man’s been sneezing for two days, Lil Princess in full snotsville today ( Ali guide a newly widened tooth gap, another tooth gone today!) and I’ve noticed my nose tap phase loosened too! Damn!!!
No!!
Cold, you have taken far too much of our time these last few months!!! Please, just do one!!!

My lovely peeps, please, some get well wishes for our birthday girl to be, I’d hate for her day to be spoiled with a cold!!

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!

Mohican monkey!

Pallas Cat

Perfect Peacock!

Siberian Tiger

Magestic moggy up close!

European Bison

And not forgetting the

Black Rhinos

Then came my favorite! We were greeted by this sign…

Uh oh!

The Gorillas!

Beautiful beast!

Chilling!

What d'ya want?

A great day had by all!
Who knew such an amazing place was just round the corner from us?!

(Apologies for poor quality pics… I’m not the best photographer and these were taken on my phone!)

Day Two of the holidays

17 Feb 2015 2 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Bed, Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, children, Dentist, Holidays, Karate, No Time

So, zoo is done, we didn’t get the bed ordered and managed to make the dance/drum lessons.
What does day two have in store for us??
Kids up at the crack of dawn… (Typical in the holidays!!)
We need an extra good brush this morning… The dentist visit looms!!
Then hopefully today will be new bed ordering day!
Possible karate lesson later too.
Need to fit ironing in, feeding kids, and visiting the in laws too!
Have a lovely Tuesday everyone!

Day one of the holidays…

16 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Bed, Blog, Blog Post, Blogging, children, Half Term, Holidays, Tired Already, Zoo

It’s officially day 1 of the kids half term holiday.
The weather is yuck, damp and foggy.
Great, a wonderful start, to what’s meant to be a fun day!
We’re off to Howlett’s Wildlife Park, it’s a kind of zoo. Like a Nature Reserve.
The kids are so looking forward to possibly seeing tigers, and gorillas and elephants!
The school has arranged it as a family day out, so I don’t need to worry about the travel etc, we go by coach, and the time there is ours, not structured. I’ve packed our lunches, just need to sort out suitable clothes, and Hubby Dearest will drop us off. I have my phone, so hopefully pictures will come out ok!

When we get back, I might actually be able to order our new bed (silent yippee! I’m still trying to convince hubby it’s the right one!!)

Then after dinner I still have 2 hours of Bhangra dancing and Dhol Drum lessons to endure…

Who said holidays were relaxing!? Who?? False advertising I say!!!!