Birthday "break"

Although we have not finished every room in the house, we have decided to take a break from decorating and building work. Instead I've been force to organise (booo) slowly putting things in the place they are suppose to be!

Due to this change this blog will now become more about crafting projects we like to do as well as holiday snaps to share with the family! rest assured any more building work we get done will be posted here.

Jo's **rd Birthday has just passed and we decided to have a weekend break in London and go see a show. We went to see the preview of "The Wizard of Oz" you know, the one from the silly telly show that I definitely do not watch! Surprisingly it turned out to be one of the best shows we have seen in London and was very well put together.

It's the first ever show Danielle Hope has starred in and she was flawless! amazing voice and brilliantly acted, however she was unfortunately upstaged by Toto, there are several Toto's that have been trained for the role which you can see below!



(only downside is that Toto is suppose to be a Cairn!) All of the main actors in this were actually fantastic and got great laughs as they acted out their characters. If you enjoy a trip to the theatre this is definitely one to go and watch!

When I say it was a weekend break we didn't actually stop! we made sure we could fit in as much as possible. We also went to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which was interesting to see and makes you want to come back and see a show there (unfortunately they don't start until May)

With 2 for 1 offer with our train tickets it was definitely worth a walk around. We also went to The Imperial War Museum which is free to get into, the trench and blitz experiences were pretty good in there and there is a big exhibition on about the Holocaust at the moment, it was awful to see but extremely interesting and worth a look if your in London.

Lastly we went to London Zoo, the queues were huge and had us waiting for over an hour up the street and just when you thought you were about to get in there was another long queue. They said that they were not expecting so many visitors for at least another two weeks; so they didn't have all the booths open to let people in. If that wasn't bad enough after 50 mins of waiting they decided instead of opening more ticket booths they would have staff take pictures of you as you enter the Zoo so they can sell you the pictures on the way out grrr. Well I couldn't do a whole post without a moan!

I will sign out on an up though; even with the waiting London Zoo was once again well worth the visit, the place has much improved since our last visit with much better enclosures for the animals. The tropical rainforest is very well done, you now walk through the enclosure with branches going over your heads and the monkeys have free reign to explore. (oh and for those numpties with IPhones... you don't have to put the phone right in the monkeys face to take a picture!!!!) A new enclosure is due to open later this year for the penguins and by the plans it looks to be amazing!

It seems the zoo is working towards having bigger enclosures for all their animals and in my opinion this can only be a good thing!

Nice snowing you!

Well it has been over a year since my last post. I cant believe a year has even passed and to look at the picture below you wouldn't believe it either. Snow has once again covered Cardiff (or perhaps just our road!) with over 12 inches of snow.

As usual there is one suspect who is much more excited about the snow than anyone else. Yep our little Rosie is now worse than ever as she now cries by the backdoor because she wants to go out and play.

The downside to where we live is the two hills we have to navigate to get here! On your average day of the week this wouldn't be a problem, however add a blanket of snow, a sprinkle of ice and an empty grit bucket (grrr) we get a couple of ski slopes instead! I did try to dig our road out as the first two pictures show, I got most of the way up the road before cold, wet, white drops of snow decided to thwart me!

It didn't take long for inches more snow to fill back all the hard work I had done, luckily I managed to get my car to the top of the first hill at least.

The second hill where we are and the MAIN!!! roads near us really didn't look much better.

So as you can see we cant go very far at the moment. Enough of the grumbling anyway below are some nice pictures of the snow around us. Including pictures of the Long-tailed tit gang that ambushes our bird feeder (more so when we stick mince pies out!)

Finally, part of the reason we haven't done any posts during the year as it has been very hectic, we have been doing a lot of interior decorating as well as putting in a new kitchen, our new folding sliding doors and many other things! I will have to do a house update later to show what its like now. Below you can see a random sneak peak of what the kitchen now looks like.

A Blogging we will go!

Hello and welcome to our Blog, We have started this blog (because my arm was twisted..ahem) because we are doing an extension as well as other things and thought it may be of interest to someone, somewhere!

The name of the Blog is from our little Cairn Terrier, Rosie; her kennel name is Theryse Olways Moanin (Just like jo is always moaning) so we thought it would fit the Blog very well!

Keep coming back for updates on our projects, I will try and get some pictures of our house as it is and then you can see it as the extension comes to life (or as the builder runs off with our money!) You will also get to see any little crafty projects we get up to. Don't take anything we put up too seriously, as we sure dont!