|
|
You carry the world in your shoulders…
You carry my world inside you…
You carry and care with love…
And love makes the world turn…
My world turns around you…
You are my sun in a sunny summer day…
Today is your day, just like every day…
And this is getting too cheesy…
So Happy Mothers Day!!!
PS: Other Kangaroo Momma reference… you can also throw a hell of a punch! 
Yesterday I went with Hales to pick up the latest addition to the family… A female white Lop Bunny that is the cutest thing ever.
Hales explained me that she got her to be a companion for the older one as the two females that were going to do the job ended up being males in the end… 
So… My job was to clean up the habitats whilst the got to get acquainted with each other in the run placed on the grass…
His eyes were shining and and he was happy and bouncy again… and he soon wanted to boink the poor bunny… He would try and try and try again until Hales decided to let him get on with it to see how it went… he has been done anyway so what’s the point.
After a little while he simply stopped as if saying “what??? am I not gonna be told off anymore????” and from them onwards he was more or less behaved.
So… what lesson do we learn with that little story?
No… I don’t mean the one that is you persist and persist and persist you will end up getting what you want… no…
The main lesson I want you to learn is:
The moment you take that itch out of your system it stops being such an obsession!
So… it is good to let the itch be scratched sometimes… sit back… relax and do it… you might actually enjoy it…
And and it is not something that I am telling just for you… it also applies to wives, husbands, kiddos, boyfriends, girlfriends…. rabbits…
Scatch their itch… they will probably be a lot less of a pain in your butt…
Life is so repetitive… but it is our duty to make it FUN!!!!
Are you looking for a fun place to meet with friends? Do you like Mexican food? Are you close to The O2???
Then I might know the best place for you to be!
Last week I was lucky to be invited for the opening of a new Chiquitos restaurant right by The 02 (literally by the door…)… Now… if you read my blog for a while you will know that I wasn’t a big fan of Chiquitos ever since the Tainted Margaritas incident on Port Solent a few years back and you will also know that I wasn’t impressed AT ALL with the service of the Chiquitos in Convent Garden… So I went to the launch of this new one more for the fun of being with a friend that I hadn’t seen since November last year and I missed very very much.
So as you will see… It was great to get there and being met with GREAT service from the moment we got to the door to the moment we stood up to go.
I also loved the decoration (the beer bottle chandeliers were FAB!) and the energy you get out of the place itself/staff. And The burritos and quesadillas and all the rest were to die for!
Ah… and I am happy to report that The Margaritas were Great and didn’t make me ill at all this time… Even though I had quite a few of them (ah… the shame… still not enough to make me drunk tho!!!! So Hales… no getting mad at me! )
The score given to the place: 9 out of 10 (there’s always room for improvement… and the waitresses DEFINITIVELY n need to learn how to take a photo from people on the table LOL!!! )
So if you are tempted to give it a go head off to the London O2 Arena and you will find it right by the doors…
Enjoy!
So we’re back to the face of the earth and to the world of technology, communications and social networks…
Well… to be fair we never completely left it… hehehe… After all Hales was twitting within a couple of hours of us leaving her place on route to our secret hide away on the mountains… And We used SatNav to get there and about… and we used digital cameras… and the iMac to watch movies and the iPhone to check emails…
So yeah… maybe we couldn’t handle a technology free weekend, but we kept social network interaction at a minimum…
The trip over there wasn’t bad and we managed to get from Surrey to the Peak District in a little over 3 hours leaving a little late because I got delayed by traffic on the A3 thus infuriating a bit my gorgeous girlfriend. Nothing that a few jokes wouldn’t solve tho so all was good.
I managed to get us to the wrong road within seconds of leaving the M25… To be saved again by technology and Saint Google Maps smartly read and navigated by a certain cute purple hair young mummy.
We’ve finally arrived to our secret (ish) hideaway avoiding getting snowed at throughout the 
way at nearly 12am where after a few failed attempts, and 1 call to Brazil we managed to get the boiler to work and warm up the -4C temperature that greeted us INSIDE the stone cottage… No snow but plenty of cold… even under the duvets so we literally slept in what we were wearing underneath, two duvets and hales wrapped in three blankets and each other.
Morning brought a new surprise in the form of about 3 inches of snow that we discovered right after the GF had texted her mum saying that we had no snow up there… hehehe… We spent a few minutes taking pictures of the cold thick white carpet out there.
Seeking breakfast we once more relied on technology in the form of Google to find the nearest Tesco 11miles away which took us about 1 hour and a bit to drive through snowed up country lanes up and down hills on mum’s poor Peugeot 307 (yeah… we should have probably taken the Monsta Truck… but opted for economic driving up there) only to find out about the brand new Sainsburys just around the corner on the way back… Oh well…
We got back to our snowed out refuge and went straight to bed to do something VERY exciting… Sleep! ah the joys of parenthood… you take what you get… lol… And we were both probably needing it… To be honest, the weekend wasn’t everything we had planned (we’d planned a 
13km hike for saturday but Hales forgot her boots and we decided not to go for such venture because of the snow) but all the rest we had was well worth it.
Evening brought a romantic dinner prepared by yours truly with all my love. Just the 2 of us… and cameras… yeah… we’re hopeless like that… … then cuddling up in bed to watch soppy romantic comedies… And what comes next it is none of your business! 
We were due to leave to London early morning to be back for lunch but we only woke up at 10:30am… By the time we got up and dressed and took a few photos of Hales for my portfolio 
using the awesome necklaces from @LittleFairyCult that she has kindly donated as prizes for the @Livvyssmile prize draw in a few days (will be posting photos some time this week), it was about 12pm.
Now there comes the bit that wasn’t fun at all… The journey home… Not just because the weekend was over and we’d be getting back to real life but because we had to sit through 7 and a half hours of traffic down the M1 / M25…
And now we’re back to real life… Still… batteries recharged and ready for whatever comes ahead…
Great times were had… can’t wait for the next one!!
So… to the response as to if we can live without technology… erm… what do you think??? :)
Enjoy the photos in the cool little montage on top…
We’re dropping off the the face of the earth in a couple of hours for a whole weekend without technology in an undisclosed location. Well… not really… We’re both taking laptops, cameras, mobiles and 2 Mobile Internet Dongles, but we have a deal… they get stashed away for most of the time (apart from the cameras) and we are not using any social network for the 48hours we are spending away.
I can’t begin to tell you how I’m looking forward to it…
God knows how much I’ve been needing to get away from life for a while… And yeah… The romantic get-away is also much needed after all we’ve been through for the past couple of months.
I Can’t also begin to tell how difficult it will be as well…
Why??
Well… Where do I begin?!?!
I’m constantly attached to my iPhone and constantly checking emails, facebook, twitter, sms, the works…
Hales is glued to her Blackberry more often than not checking the same stuff (plus BBN) and suffers of a serious case of Blackberryitus.
So… going off the grid should be interesting! lol…
See you Sunday night… if we don’t get snowed under…
Actually… I’m taking bets as to how long she’ll manage not to log into any social network… any takers???
Logging Off!
 |
 |
 |
|
   |
|
