The one where I catch up and we move on ......

    
Hi Birdies, 

Firstly let me say sorry for the lack of action on here. Life has been pretty busy , and yes I realise that's the point of the blog to blab on about my busy life but, seriously it's been busy. So this post will be a round up if you like of what I've been up to for the last few weeks.

So......thinking back , let's go .....I've been on Brownie camp which was lots of fun. I was asked to go with my mates Kirsten and Sag and their brownies. The brownie house was right by the safari park at Knowsley and even closer to the lion enclosure perimeter fence. So close in fact that on the Saturday evening and the Sunday morning we could hear the lions roaring. 
The safari park was a lot of fun and I highly recommend a visit if you are in the area any time soon. The ape drive through was an experience that I will never attempt in my own car. We were in a tour bus from the park. They actually came to the camp house and picked us all up which is a fantastic service. The car behind us in the ape section got wrecked, and I mean rubber pulled out the windscreen, window wipers pulled off , licence plate pulled off wrecked..... I would not have been happy. 
The theme of camp was superheroes and on Saturday evening I dressed up as Mrs Incredible which was fun but no one needs to see that so no pictures to share. 

In the week following that it was my mother in laws birthday so we all went out for a curry. 17 of us...to say it was chaos is an understatement but we had a great time and celebrated as a family. Last weekend the Mr and I were away in Roger. We didn't go far, only around 40 mins away from home but the site was a lovely quiet one right by the canal and a pub called The Lock. We went to the pub for food on Friday and had one of the best burgers I've had for a while , typically I forgot to take a picture of it as I was so hungry I dived right in and inhaled it oops! They also serve frozen cider which is essentially a cider slushy , so nice and definitely moreish. So much so we wobbled back to Roger and zonked out by about 10.30pm. Lightweights I know. 
On the Saturday morning we went out to Frankie and Bennys for breakfast. I think their breakfast menu is the best around and always hits the spot, if you download their app now you get £10 to spend on main courses. Everything is the same price so it's easy to navigate the menu and they do bottomless coffee which is big thumbs up from me. The location of F&B in Kidderminster is amazing, they have a seating area right by the canal and when the weather is as good as it was last weekend it's joy to sit there. 
The small matter of triple pancakes with bacon and eggs helped of course. Once again idiot rubbish blogger Birdie inhaled the breakfast and didn't take a picture . I have a new mental note and I've told the Mr to remind me to take the pictures before I dive in !!!!! 
After breakfast we headed off on Rhonda to Stourpourt on Severn and had a walk around the permanent fun fayre. I have to say, I know the kids love it and it's a great asset to the town for pulling people in to visit but it was a bit grim to say the least and I think the owners need to think about investing some serious money on a facelift. 
So a very brief walk around the fun fayre completed and we set off for a stroll up the river. There were lots of family's out enjoying the sunshine, picnics on the grassed areas, lots of kids using the park and outdoor paddling pool and it was lovely to see. I decided to challenge the Mr to a game of crazy golf which was fun and proceeded to whip him at his own game. I scored 3 holes in one and well and truly beat him. Ice cream consumed as a celebration ( no picture ) but trust me it was amazeballs ...we set off back to Roger. 
We were due to meet up with family later for a takeaway but due to confusion ....mainly mine apparently I was waiting for them to text us and they were waiting for us to turn up ! This resulted in us ending up back in slushy cider pub, getting a call about a mini festival 12 miles away, jumping back on Rhonda going to festival to meet up with other friends and having a nice catch up. 
Whilst there I decided to text about this takeaway and was informed they had been waiting for us since 6.30pm major oops! So back on Rhonda to meet family and grovel like the loser I am. 

So sorry Kelly, Lee , Holly and Emily we got there in the end and can't wait to catch up again and play on the Bizzie Bee snap chat. 

 And so now to this week.....I have to say fairly quiet, I've not been in the mood to do much in all fairness due to one reason or another . The gym has been pretty none existent despite best intentions, I've totally lost my mojo. 
Friday saw us decide to go into holiday mode a week early and we went out for food again. I TOOK PICTURES !!!!! 
We went off to Bella Italia which is fast becoming a favourite for us. Due to a rubbish week we decided to go whole hog and I managed to consume wine , garlic prawns a bbq pizza and a tiramisu followed by a cocktail of prosecco and limoncello.  Needless to say from Saturday I was back on the SW wagon. 
I haven't been weighed for weeks so I need to go on Wednesday and I cannot say I am in any way looking forward to it, but the time has come to take control again and taste my medicine. Given I'm off on holiday Saturday  I'm not sure what I can do with the result other than think about it and bare it in mind while I'm away. 

So that's all from me birdies , as I said I'm off for 2 weeks so I'll post from sunny Florida but I'm not sure when exactly. 
 I'll tag all the pictures to the end of the blog in no particular order , but hopefully they will be chronological. 

So until next time as always birdies....Make good choices and eat the cake ....always !   

BB 

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