Packing, tiding, more packing and throwing away!

As the title indicates this week I have mainly been clearing out the house, ready for the sale completing, hopefully on Wednesday next week.

Surprisingly, despite Wayne and I spending a year "decluttering" there had been so much stuff to rehome or recycle. Some stuff we have been getting rid of have been a bit strange such as taking the kitchen bins to the tip, giving the BBQ to the scrap metal man (we thought we could rehome the BBQ but it had got a bit rusty), i also gave the cutlery to the scrap metal man ... that was weird too.

Mean while in Canada, Wayne had been buying stuff that I have been throwing away. it is very strange. Wayne starts his new job tomorrow so things should start settling down over there. Meanwhile I will be mainly working and tidying!

Were all going to the Zoo tomorro...er...last weekend

So Wayne had disappeared on a stag do to Oktoberfest in Munich and I was left wondering what to do what to so with myself ...so i did the logical thing, invited my mum to stay and had a girly weekend.

On Friday we looked at all the furniture we wouldn't buy in Ikea...then on Saturday we decided to go to Tycross zoo. We didn't get to see the show leopards but we did see lots of monkeys, elephants penguins and a baby orangutan and a litter of baby meerkats.

We then went to find hobbycraft in Coventry, we failed and ended up at a garden center in the middle of the country.

On Sunday we cooked a roast and spent the afternoon playing cards ans scrabble... I lost lots

We then went and picked a very tired and hungover Wayne ... who brought some yummy looking chocolate back from Germany

Raglan Castle

On the way back From Wales we thought that we would make a little stop at Raglan Castle which is near Monmouth. It is the ruin of a Castle from the 15th century (House of Lancaster, House of York and the Tudors).

It saw the War of the Roses through to the civil war and was abandoned when the war ended and left for Ruin.
It was great fun to look around and had lots of little passageways and a vaults. It also had a great tower, which was octagonal in shape.

There was also multilingual warning signs which were very amusing...

We then travelled back home, went shopping and cooked an awesome Chinese in Stu and Helen's kitchen and then played Trivial Pursuit...A game I am rubbish at! It was fun though.

Happy Birthday Mick

Waynes Dad is 65 today so I made him a cake.

I put fresh strawberries in it

I think he liked it :)