The garage part 3

Ok so now we have bricks yay. First layer of bricks have gone on, now the builder has to come back and fill in with concrete and the rest of the bricks go on after or something like that anyway.

More Zoo pictures!

So just a few more pictures the first ones are from the familiar friends section greedy goats!!!



Feeding the elephants is always a popular albeit slimy experience



Just some random pictures of various animals.

Despite the weather everyone seemed to have a good day and I certainly enjoyed going back to the zoo again.

Colchester Zoo

So today we took Alex and 2 of her friends to Colchester zoo for a late birthday treat. Just as we arrived at the zoo it started raining!! Fortunately it only rained in short bursts throughout the day - could have been worse. Colchester Zoo was a very popular haunting ground for us when the kids were younger but we have not been for about 4 years, even so I was still amazed at the changes for the better they had made. A new sealion enclosure and a wakthrough underwater tunnel, new orangutang enclosure, changes to the "familiar friends" area to name but a few.
Having already established the favourites to visit - meerkats for me and Alex, penguins for Stuart and big cats for Georgia and Leah we started out.
The first place we came to was a touchy feely centre - bleuugghh pictures below of the cockroach and alex holding it - made me shiver just thinking about it!

We soon found the meerkats much to everyones delight, who can fail to be charmed by these cute animals!

Stuart and i decided we were a bit cold and a coffee was in order so we dispatched the kids off for half an hour (mobile phones are wonderful things) and sat in the warm having a coffee!

Monkeys were a big favourite with the girls particularly these little squirrel monkeys, even more exciting because there was a baby to see. Pictures are a bit naff as it was hrough glass and most of them were indoors but never mind!

Of course we had to go see the big cats, I am rather proud of these photos considering they were through glass and at max zoom.

More pictures to follow!

day 2 in a tale of 2 garages

ok so today I get home from work to find a lorry the size of the house pumping concrete into the garden. For some reason i imagined them filling in the metre deep trench by hand. There is also a pile of earth nearly as big as the house! and apparantly half of it had already been taken away.

So in my garden at the moment is a humungous pile of earth and a moat of concrete!

The lorry the size of the house!

cross stitch

still plodding along with it, next progress picture below :)

A tale of 2 garages

As I may have mentioned we are having a garage built, not just any garage oh no! Stuart decided he wanted a super duper long garage so he can restore cars! Anyway before the new garage can go we need to take the old one down. By we I do of course mean the royal we :) . He did however have some help from my dad and brother. pictures below of the demolition process!

So the old one is down work on the new one can begin! See below for day 1 in the garage process, you can also tell how big it actually is and how much of my garden it will swallow!

Cross stitch update

latest picture showing the progress of my cross stitch, hopefully you can now see what it is! Still a long way to go though. I have also got a picture showing my fantastic cross stitch frame i got for free from the freecycle website. Fantastic site.