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>Monkey World

31 Jul

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While in Weymouth me and my boyfriend took a trip to Monkey World, the ape Rescue Centre, It was one of my favourite days, all the monkeys were so sweet, and could stand there for hours watching them. Here are a few we say on our way around.
Here are the Woolly Monkeys and they were my favourite, they were just so crazy……. obviously this one like Richard, it must have reminded him of his daddy.
Monkey World had 10 Woolly monkeys and they live in 2 separate groups, these monkeys are part of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme.
The oldest Woolly Monkey is Xusy at 34 years old.

Well the Orangutans were so cute, and fluffy. This one was defiantly the king of the swingers.
This little one Joly was in the nursery group with four other baby Orangutans, Hisao-Ning, A-Mei, Dinda and Lingga.
There was only one Orangutan when Monkey World first opened which was Amy, who had her first baby Gordan in 1997.
The Gibbons are the Noisy ones and can be heard all over the park.
There are 5 different species of gibbons at Monkey World – Siamang, Mueller’s, Golden Cheeked, agile, and Lar Gibbons.

Most of the Gibbons at the park have paired up with others of there kind.

The Stump-tailed Macaque were rescued from a British lab were they were used for asthma research.

Poor little things were caged alone indoors, unfit and over weight.
Now they have a lovely home at Monkey world with the companionship of their own kind.
Well we all know this is a little baby Chimpanzee, Monkey world has the largest group of Chimps outside of Africa.
The Chimps are split into 3 main groups, each run by the dominant male Paddy, Hananya and Butch.
The Nursery (where this little one is from) is run by foster mum Sally and one armed Lulu (who was a bit shy so could not get a picture).

Now this little Monkey is a Marmoset, and I mean tiny. There are 15 Marmosets at Monkey World, Living in male, female and family groups.
The Marmosets were rescued from British labs and also the UK Pet trade.
They do require a special diet and when several of them went to Monkey World they had nutritional bone disease and poor social skills.
Well Monkey World was great and it was lovely to see all the different kind of monkeys, Monkey world was set up in 1987 (when I was born) by Jim Cronin to provide a stable home for abused monkeys and what a great job he did. the park is forever expanding and on our trip they were in the process of building another Baby Orangutan Nursery.
Its a great day out and I would recommend it to anyone.

 

>Weymouth 2009

31 Jul

>This year me and my boyfriend made another trip to Weymouth, we loved it so much last time we went we could not resist.

I love Weymouth and is one of my favourite places to go, the sand is lovely and the sea is blue, and with the weather that we had its was just as good as going abroad.

We arrived in Weymouth mid-day on the Sunday, we were staying at my boyfriends grandma’s so we had first class treatment. Before tea we went for a walk up a very very big hill. Due to my health I could not make it all the way up the top on my own so with the help of Richard (my boyfriend) I did he gave me a piggy back half the way up. hehe.

This is my at the bottom.
The next Day was the official start of our holiday and we did loads, We went to the beach as we could not have been luckier with the weather that we had. We took a trip to the Sea Life Centre and also had a round of crazy golf… which I could have won, if Richard did not cheat…. Naughty Boy!!

This is my dipping my feet in the water, its was very cold.
At the Beach in Weymouth you have Maggie’s Famous beach Donkeys, which we were lucky enough to meet…. the were so sweet, which unfortunately I was too Big to have a ride :(
There are 6 all together, Peejay, Beejay, Jasmine, Stumpy, Sparkey and Sooty. This is me with them and the cheeky one that kept sticking his tongue out!!
One day we went to Lulworth Cove, It was a very pretty place, this is me just dipping me feet in the sea – we sis not bring our swimming stuff so was unable to have a proper paddle.
For most of the holiday it was time spent at the beach, me being someone who loves shopping, i was very happy that the town was close by and the sales were on, which made my holiday that extra bit better hehe.
This is me sunbathing on the beach on the last day, unfortunately this day did leave me with an odd tan, I was starting to put sun tan lotion on one of my legs and my boyfriend perked up and said you don’t want to do that or you wont get a tan, so not thinking just packed the lotion away, when I woke up the next morning I was so happy to see that one leg was red and one was fine, thankfully the tan on my right leg has faded now!!

The last night we went for a romantic meal in a very nice restaurant (that does the best peppercorn sauce yum yum) this is me having a glass of wine, I ain’t normally a wine drinker (well not anymore) but Richards Grandma loves wine and its rude to say no, so every night I had a glass, so became a wino on this holiday.
Well this is the strange part of my holiday, every time me and Richard go out for a meal we always try and guess the bill and we never get it right, but I guessed it down to the last penny…… spooky hey!!!!
 

>Ladies Driving Challenge!

14 Jul

>Last Sunday i attended a Ladies Driving Challenge at Raf Coltishall. The event was to raise funds for ‘The Fire Fighters Charity’ and ‘Help for Heroes’ . Massive thanks to all those who donated, with your help i was able to raise a total of £168 for a good cause, Excellent!

Thanks to your generosity i was able to drive 3 different types of fire engines. It was so much fun speeding round a track, lights flashing, sirens blaring thinking to myself.. life doesn’t get much better than this ha ha!!

i also drove a tractor,

A quadzilla 250 buggy, which completely ruined my hair and makeup!!

A massive truck………


But no ordinary truck, it had a playstation 3, two beds, dvd player….. you name it this trucker had it!

I also drove a military truck with a handy sunroof!!!

…..and a ride in a tank with shaun the tank man!

last but definately not least…..the sexy little Lotus which i managed to get up to 133mph before we ran out of track !! what a buzz =)

LOVED that car!! Anyone fancy buying me one hee hee???!!!

 

>Madonna !!!

14 Jul

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Myself and my friend Krystle, both MASSIVE fans of Madonna, were super excited to bag ourselves a couple of tickets to catch Madgy at the o2 arena London on the 4th July.

I’ve been an obsessive fan of Madonna since the age of 7 when i was bought my first ever cassette tape album ‘ The Immaculate collection’ .I spent the majority of the rest of my childhood locked in my bedroom singing and making up dance routines to her tunes. My first ever C.D album was Madonna- Erotica and my love of the queen of pop continued right through to my teens when at 16 my bedroom walls were covered in posters of Madge (and the odd poster of keith from the prodigy, who i was slightly obesessed with also!!ha ha!)

I’ve wanted to see Madge in concert for years and years but never quite pulled my finger out and got myself some tickets as they’re usually quite highly priced! As it was on my list of things to do before my big 30, (which is fast approaching) i thought i’d better get my butt in gear!!

Since it was such a special occasion, we thought we would really go to town and booked ourselves into a King Size Executive Suite at the Grand Plaza and treated ourselves to a couple of bottles of pink champagne to toast our special day!

Our seats were on the first tier just to the right of the stage so we had a brilliant view of our idol. It kicked off with paul Oakenfold who played a blinding set as the seats were gradually filling up.

Madge came out at about half nine, by this point we had been waiting for what felt like hours to see her. We could feel the tension and excitement building in the arena as the crowd started chanting ‘madoooooonna’ impatiently, trying to encourage her to hurry up! When she eventually arrived on stage she was sat on a throne like the Queen that she is. Krystle and I screamed, kicked off our shoes and jumped up and down like loons with our hands in the air for the next 2 hours solid! Check out my video footage…

I can honestly say it’s the best concert i’ve ever been to, Madonna rocks……FACT! She was absoloutly amazing and i feel so lucky to have been able to see her live. When she did a tribute to Micahel Jackson i actually got quite emotional, the crowds response was so overwhelming it really touched a nerve! check out my video…….

The highlight for me was towards the end of the show when she sang ‘Give it to me’ and let the crown sing it while she held out her microphone. It was the most amazing feeling to look around and see every single person in the arena jumping up and down with their hands in the air singing ‘GIVE IT TO ME!!!’ with massive smiley faces!! I remember turning to Krystle and saying ‘If i die today i’ll die a happy lady’ !! ha ha!
Here’s some of my pics of The queen of pop in action….