Monday, December 13, 2010

Winter Wonderland...

In a corner of Hyde Park, the yearly Winter Wonderland has opened up for the festive season and a winter wonderland it is indeed; full of stalls, rides and other attractions.
The stalls, all decorated with lights and tinsel, are small wooden cabins built to resemble the sort of log cabins you’d find in Lapland. Each one is stocked full of trinkets and small arts and crafts from around the world.
The food stalls are also luxuriously over the top, with the English Food Fair selling traditional hog roasts, fish and chips and real ale.
This however comes at a cost, £4 for a mulled wine in a polystyrene cup in a mock Austrian cabin seems to me to be a little excessive, this of course is only my opinion but i found it to be far from authentic! I really hate to say it and I’m not a Christmas scrooge but Tacky is the only word that sprung to mind, 
Luckily after finding our way out of the maze of screaming children and thumping drum and base coming from the rides (which I can’t quite understand how that is Christmassy) we found a quieter part of town to enjoy a yummy Chinese which i hasten to add was one of the best i have ever had.
What starts well ends well?
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Pretty from afar though
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Meet Yuffy III.........

A simply perfect house warming gift!!! Not entirely the conventional way to obtain a pet mouse but nether less he’s amazing!

However…….. Trying to keep the little critter in the cage which was provided for him as his new home has proven rather difficult, I discovered very quickly over the weekend that Yuffy III doesn’t think that the cage is for him to stay in simply somewhere to eat his food and poo!, he would much rather be out and about exploring, eating things he shouldn’t be eating and being generally annoying! Naturally I had to be firm with him as all new parents do and nip this bad behaviour in the bud…… by finding him a lovely new home (one a little less easy to vacate from) in a giant vase!

But I am completely in love with him!!

Thank you T xxxx