The spoiling continued today - starting with a much needed sleep-in! When we finally got ourselves sorted David and Linda took us on a guided tour of Birmingham. I think david was a bit disappointed that he didn't have 3 weeks to show off their home city, we only had about 3hrs. We started with St Martins cathedral, the markets (which started in 1100, had to replace my jubilee bag, even Chris' needlework couldn't save it), the bull ring (new shopping centre), n...

It was a sad, sad day today, leaving Simon and Lizzie's. 4 days was just not long enough :( But we knew we'd be in good hands, off to David and Linda's (Lizzie's parents) via Stratford-upon-Avon. We were supposed to meet them at 10am but after a freeway like a carpark, needing a pit-stop for Mitch, abandoning Judith's directions (big mistake norm!) and hitting road works in Stratford, we got there at 11.20! Linda played on the Aussie card (and our mammoth effor...

Can't even begin to describe what an awesome day today was. Ok, so just in case you'd missed the teasers in previous blogs, we went to the new Harry Potter Studio Tour today at Levesden, which is only about 20mins from Rickmansworth. Got a bit excited with the camera (see the photo album or ... you could just watch the 8 movies, probably quicker!) Given the movies are now finished, Warner Bros have converted their studios into a (money-making) extravaganza. For...

A day in Ricky today. Technically, our day started at about 2pm after Mitch woke up. Headed out to Croxley Green for their annual fair (think Camden Show condensed down to the size of an Olympic swimming pool). There were a lot of cupcakes for sale, crockery smashing, splat the rat and may pole dancing (not to be confused with the pole dancing i did at jule's hen's night, really it was 10yr old girls in brownies dancing in their brown tracksuits twirling ribb...

We must have picked the worst day of London's summer to go to the zoo. The wind was that cold, and the rain that horizontal, that the only animals in the park that weren't taking shelter were the penguins - and even then they were practically frozen to the spot (see photos for proof). Despite being drastically underdressed, we had a great 5hrs wandering around the park looking at all of the animals and watching the shows/talks. And this time, even Mitch wa...