Happy 5th Birthday to my favourite niece Rhianna Joyce Arden Levy.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Piggyback!!
From what I remember of my biology lessons, and from when we have frogspawn and tadpoles in our pond there is NOTHING going on here other than a friendly piggyback, I am after all much cleaner than my wicked aunt
Saturday, 14 July 2007
So Long St Anne's
After eleven years of the boys being at St Anne's it is finally time to leave this lovely school behind. We first arrived on the nursery doorstep in September 1996, when Jamie and I accompanied Thomas while he settled in over a very long period of time. Jamie joined the nursery class in February 1999 and leaves Year 6 next Friday to go to Emanuel in September. Thomas left three years ago, but no-one really noticed as he still goes there most days to pick Jamie up with me. I can honestly say that we have so many happy memories of St Annes's, have had many happy days and met lots of lovely friends............
London Zoo Gorillas 14 July 2007
After the excitement last weekend of the Tour De France it was back to reality this weekend. We had an appointment in town at 1:30 to buy Jamie's school uniform so decided to head out early to the Zoo. We got there at opening time and had a happy couple of hours being outnumbered by the animals, which made a nice change. Gorilla Island is the newest attraction at London Zoo, so I headed there first. . . . . . . . 
This was the male silverback who was snoozing inside. Although it looks like his fist it is actually a close up of his foot!
London Zoo - assorted animals 14 June 2007
The lavender was out in force at the zoo today and looked and smelt superb, wish I could do it justice!!! 
The sloth bears wer out playing, although they seemed shy and were keen to run away when they saw they had company, but then again maybe that was just me they didn't want to see.
The camels are so much more straightlaced than their northern cousins...
The giraffes are so beautiful and their raised viewing area makes it too enticing to stand there for hours snapping away.
Despite that we were the first ones in at 10am the lion was still asleep. However a small amount of wheedling (I am never ashamed to beg) made him open his eyes, even if he did not deign to wake up totally!
Decided that I had taken waaay too many penguin photos recently, so here is just the one... Think this was a stretchy yawn!
Into the reptile house, which is not my favourite place due to the preponderance of things that slither..... here is one who was photogenic...
Hurrah the tigers were unusually awake, however he was pacing furiously along the boundary fence. It is impossible to photograph him when he is this close to the fence so we were trying to trick him into going further away.. does that make sense? However when he realised what we were doing he dashed back at speed, making it almost impossible to photograph him anyway!!!
The sloth bears wer out playing, although they seemed shy and were keen to run away when they saw they had company, but then again maybe that was just me they didn't want to see.
The camels are so much more straightlaced than their northern cousins...
The giraffes are so beautiful and their raised viewing area makes it too enticing to stand there for hours snapping away.
Despite that we were the first ones in at 10am the lion was still asleep. However a small amount of wheedling (I am never ashamed to beg) made him open his eyes, even if he did not deign to wake up totally!
Decided that I had taken waaay too many penguin photos recently, so here is just the one... Think this was a stretchy yawn!
Into the reptile house, which is not my favourite place due to the preponderance of things that slither..... here is one who was photogenic...
Hurrah the tigers were unusually awake, however he was pacing furiously along the boundary fence. It is impossible to photograph him when he is this close to the fence so we were trying to trick him into going further away.. does that make sense? However when he realised what we were doing he dashed back at speed, making it almost impossible to photograph him anyway!!!
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