Swallow George Colchester

Well I'm still at "Granny's". But there are so many birds to look at now. Granny puts out seeds every day for them as it is aproaching winter now. They are not allowed come in to this house to sleep, as Granny said they would make too much mess !! Shame, 'cos I could have played with them, maybe tasted one or two. Pheasants are every where now ...

So after 6 months away and visiting 8 different countries, we have now arrived, reluctantly, back in England. Although its not as cold as we were expecting, which is a bonus!

We have had a fantastic time and visited some amazing places, and we are now hoping that reality doesn't hit us too hard!

Hope that you have enjoyed our blog and will probably see most of you shortly.

... but not being able to catch these feathered creatures, I decide to venture a little further in to the garden. Now granny has realised that she can't see me from the back door, so looks out the side window to see me wandering off out of her sight..so she, being too worried in case I go too far ( I mean.......am I stupid ?? I know the way to the back door for cat's sake) But just before she ...

... will be back later in the year.
Soon we arrive at Tolleshunt Knights and yes....I go charging about again, hiding and getting into everything...and I actually knocked over and broke a huge, china lamp. I ran off pretty sharpish and hid. I heard Granny coming, luckily, I heard her saying, "Oh well I didn't like it very much anyway" phew !!! that was a ...

We arrive at Stansted at about 8pm and proceed to have a, probably, day old burger somewhere in the airport. Yum. Turns out that all the shops, in the departure lounge and outside, close at about 9pm so we have to sit around for 4 hours before our flight boards with nada to do.

Finally we get on the flight with a load of other backpacker types and head to Malaysia!

Yes folks,
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... his black and silver carriage.(poser!)
Granny and Grandad put these cases into the car and then put me in too. Off we go. Soon we arrive at this rather posh Pussycat Hotel. Yippee, I am off on my holidays. This is a very friendly place for pussycats, I have my own private pad, with ensuit litter tray and an upstairs bedroom with a balcony ...

... monkeys, a sloth, an orangutan, lots of lemurs, tigers, penguins, rhino, zebra, elephants, giraffe, goats, turkeys, vultures and even some wallabies! Oh, and the aardvark! They were all asleep on their backs under the heat lamp in their den - very cute, in a very unconventional way.
Now, we knew it was a zoo and the priority should have been to look at animals etc, but Patrick had spotted an indoor play area early in the day, and was now determined to get back there ...

To be fair, we had taken the **** a bit with getting back for work, so we had to go home today. But first, we popped to a nearby Church to get a Geocache, then down to Cove Hithe, a tiny village literally on the cliff tops overlooking the North Sea. The road there just stops at the cliff, having fallen away years ago. We went to see a Church there, which is pretty odd. It's one in ...

Visiting the in-laws near Southend, got to see lots of morris dancers... as you do and catch up with Dans whole family and even managed a few hours with Phil (the best man) and his girlfriend Lisa. Didn't quite get the train home and was forced to stay and drink red wine with them, damn :)