JoBren Adventures!

 Allo! Good Day and good digestion to you! How are you, what have you been up to and why that particular shirt today? Last week was 1 of those dreadful, stressful, wasteful, Arrgh, Grrrr, Hiss Spit and BAM weeks where you really wonder what life's playing at, and so the weekend was embraced with more tenderness than a student's first paycheck! We decided to skip Gym on Saturday and go walk in the parks - CLEVER US! The first sunshine on our skin in almost 2 weeks! I could FEEL the Vitamin D sinking into my starved flesh! Oh travelling sky lamp, shinest thou rays upon me!  Sunday we went to gym and almost made it into the building when one of us piped up: "We could do the Zoo instead?" And the other answered smartly "Tally ho, let's go!" And so - we did!  If you ever need any really interesting feathers, for jewelry crafting or an art project or some insane need to make wings fused with wax that you plan to use to jump of an alarmingly high surface...well...

Hello-est of Hellos! How are you, and what are you doing these early days of April?  Anything exciting and does it include tigers?! It does, doesn't it? Knew it... We have had rain upon rain upon rain!  Have we had a wholly dry day since I last sent mail? I can't remember, but doubt surfaces! Here is a pic of my reflection so you can see my lovely yellow umbrella looking more like some sort of splodge on the tar... A perk of rain is that it means I HAVE to go barefoot as my shoes do not take to water well, or rather they take to it too well, they get utterly drenched in 2 shakes of a rain cloud!  This tree had flowers that were going transparent as the water hit the older blooms, imagine being your own ghost before you die?  The flowers had a strong, deep, smell that was very very nose pleasing!  I chose to wash our bedding on the one day it absolutely pelted down with rain (to be fair the morning looked in 2 minds about whether to rain or not and I just went wi...