After a late night of chatting it was wonderful to have a sleep in and even more wonderful to wake up to see a smiling face peeking over the cot at us! The plan today was to take it easy but reshuffling our weekend schedule to fit in a tour of the Warner bros studios on Sunday meant we headed off to Oxford today. It was a brief trip, as we only had parking for 2hrs, but in that time we managed to walk around the historic town (and even through some of the...

Last day in London... First day it was over 23 degrees... The majority of the day was spent cleaning up Bernie's place and then making ourselves scarce for the cleaner! Mitch and I wandered up to High St and went to Cafe Z Bar, home of the world's worst chicken burger - dry bun, battered chicken breast and cabbage - am I wrong!?! Meanwhile, across town, Ganey was picking up the newest addition to the Gane family - our little silver KIA. Back to Stokey ...

I don't know what it is, but it seems that whenever I attempt to shop, my entire day becomes one big comedic joke! Ganey thoughtfully suggested I leave earlier for my tour of Highgate Cemetery so that I could stop in at Crouch End to continue the hunt for the dress. Great idea I thought! I won't go in to detail, because I'll probably start to cry, but needless to say the day did not run so smoothly. After no joy with the shops, and 4 buses (many of which were m...

Thanks to the kind generosity of Jules' parents, who gave us their membership pass, today we made the 2hr trip via bus and overground train to Hampton Court to see the Tudor House of King Henry VIII and his 6 wives... Having read The Other Boleyn Girl (which of course is an exhaustive account of what happened back then!) and having watched Eric Bana in the movie (purely out of patriotic duty!) I was really excited to see the actual place where all of the royal d...

Our Sunday began with a sleep in (yay!) followed by Mitch giving daddy his UK Father's Day pressie (a hoodie from The Gap - great taste Mitch). So yep, that's right, Chris will get 2 father's days this year :) To continue the celebrations, Bernie put on a feast (I contributed something that only slightly resembled my standard Tolmie potato bake with chicken noodle soup - must have been alright though because I still had seconds) and invited the Noutches, Manns a...