I Been Busy!

Grandios apologies for my lack of action of late, and I'm afraid this isn't going to be a really long entry. I am pretty tired, and intend to get off the internet soon so I can curl up for a hour or so of telly before bed.

Well, I have been away, off the rock so to speak, to the UK for a long weekend. On Friday I flew into Bristol and met up with Nick, who has been over all last week and is still over at the moment. Six of us went out to a noodle bar, I forget the name but it began with a 'B' (Budokans?), the sort of funky place where you all sit on along one loooong table. Nick, myself, Rew, Charlotte, James R & Miranda all came out, I hadn't met Miranda before & had only met Charlotte once so it was cool to spend some time with them.

On Sat am we drove up the M5 to Bredons Norton, a minute village near Pershore in Worcestershire, where we booked into a guesthouse, got changed and went up to Deer Park Hall for Claire & Nicks wedding!! It was SO LOVELY. A gorgeous day, despite the recent floods that the locals were telling us all about. We got really pissed, barn danced etc until the wee hours. The only sad thing was that I saw an owl die. They have been starving to death around there because all of the mice/voles were drowned in the floods so they can't find food. This one was at the guesthouse in the carpark and as we were there it fell off its plant pot and died. Horrible, as it made me think of Hedwig.

On Sunday we drove to Wiltshire and went to Longleat Safari Park! We just did the drive bit, rather than the whole House, it was awesome!! Didn't go into the monkey bit as we were in James' really nice car and them monekys are NASTY. We got up close and personal with lions, tigers, wolves, buffalos, rhinos and a lot of other very cool creatures though!! The deer enclosure was closed unfortunately due to the foot and mouth outbreak so we didn't get to feed them which was a shame. James' parents, Enid & Chris, run a guesthouse right by Longleat and they kindly invited us for lunch. Their house is a beautiful old place in large grounds, Nick had lots of fun with their ride-on mower & Enid made us a beautiful lunch. That night we drove back to Bristol and stayed at Miranda's flat, watche Saw 3 & ate pizza.

That brings me up to yesterday which we spent in Bristol. We spent nearly the whole day at Cribbs Causeway (got to get some shopping in!!) and then my lovely husband surprised me with a nights stay at the Bristol Hotel du Vin! We had a pretty special room with two floors and a bathroom upstairs with a balcony overlooking the bedroom(!) and last night we drank some incredible wine and ate some rather lovely food in their restaurant, which is one of Bristols best. We haven't suddenly won the lottery by the way, Nicks sister works for the hotel chain and got us a very good rate! We didn't really do anything for our Anniversary so it was especially lovely. I say it was a surprise, I knew Nick was planning something and the night before I dreamed that he was taking me to the Hotel du Vin - Spooky!!

OK my eyes are starting to glaze over now, time for bed, xx