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As you know, Chelbean & I went to Whipsnade Wild Animal Park on Friday - and fell in love with lemurs and chimps and wolves and giraffes and baby!giraffes and bears and penguins and lions and tigers and hippos and rhinos baby!rhinos and sea lions and wallabies and mara and meerkats and
peacocks and elephants and llamas and alpacas and and and etc etc etc.
I really must poke the koala-shaped one for sending over the pics she
took so I can post them....
On Saturday, we took her mum (ok, we wanted to go too) to Fotheringhay which is the site of the execution of Mary Queen Of Scots and also the birthplace of Richard III. It's also a very pretty village in the middle of nowhere (I HATE driving down country lanes!) on the banks of the River Nene about 40 minutes from where Chel lives.
We wandered around 'ooh'ing at the pretty old buildings. The doors and windows were seriously tiny... as pretty as those cottages were, I would hate to live in one - dread to think how dark it would be y'know?
We also wandered around the old church - which is like part church and part museum having display boards up telling you all about the history of the village, the church, the castle, about Mary, Elizabeth, Richard, The York's and their connection to Fotheringhay. And it was very
interesting too.
When we left Fotheringhay, rather than toddling back to Northampton and because it was only like 15 minutes away, we went into Peterborough to wander around shops and grab a bite to eat. I was as a very good llama and didn't actually buy anything (!!).
We went to a Wetherspoons for food - The Drapers Arms - and we won't be going back there either. Chel had a burger and it was overcooked, dry, burned and pretty damn awful. Also, she asked for no salad and there were onions on it. My club wrap was ok though.
When Chel & I were at the bar ordering drinks and desserts, Chel's mum complained about the food, and we ended up getting hot chocolate, coffee, Pepsi and a fudge brownie dessert half price.
I liked the fact they were willing to offer that, but not the fact they had to in the first place.
Sunday was a very lazy day that started with home-made pancakes. Yummy.
And then involved very sweet, very sticky and very yummy home-made chocolate fudge.
I like Sunday's like that.
They'd be better if the film we were watching was half decent - not even the prettiness of Katherine Heigl made up for the dire-ness of 27 Dresses. Was pretty disappointed cos I'd been looking forward to watching that as well *pout*
Today has been a very productive day at work - both for them and for me.
I've processed 124 invoices today worth in the region of £380000.
Even if I did attempt to knock myself out - there's a shelf on the wall above my desk. I bent down to pick my bag up when I went for lunch... stood up and yup, hit my head on the shelf. I have to admit that's something I've been waiting to happen since I started. The whole thing got reported to Health & Safety and the shelf has been removed.
And I have one hell of a headache. LOL
It's been personally productive too with a fic about three sleepy sated boys and what they do on a lazy morning in bed...
and one of these days, before I go to work, I'm going to remember to mail myself whatever it is I'm actually working on (i.e. the jen/steve dancing or the chris/steve/riley for steve's birthday or... one of the other like 3 million fics in that 'unfinished fic' folder on Starduck) and then, rather than starting another new pwp, I might actually get one finished
*face palm*
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