twycross zoo

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I am long overdue a proper update on here. I decided to stop posting pictures up each day and focus on a blog entry maybe once a week. Then as I fell out of the habit of updating it, I’ve fallen out of the habit of blogging altogether.

I shall attempt to cover all the bases starting from where I left off…

Thursday – I was asked to photograph a local gig night. Most of the pictures are on my Facebook page here although this is ‘Photo of the Day’.

The day after post I went to the zoo with work. There are perks to the job and being paid to take children to the zoo is one of them – especially when they are 14/15 and so can walk around the zoo without supervision. Managed to grab a few shots of the various animals.

That evening I went and shot a black tie Christmas event for the TA, so it was a very busy day and I don’t think I stopped until 10pm!

Saturday we spent a lot of the day out, and we went out for dinner; then we had a later tea and watched quite a few episodes of Breaking Bad. Nice relaxing day.

On Sunday I met some family in the Botanical Gardens in town and did a mini photoshoot. Again the pictures of that are on Facebook, but I found this lovely Japanese Acer tree which had turned a delightful colour so did a shot under that.

On Saturday, after going out for dinner, we went to the Oriental supermarket across the road from the restaurant. I had originally gone in with the intention of buying mushrooms but instead came out with a rather large pomegranate. Most certainly the biggest pomegranate I have ever seen!

I then needed to obtain some prints (news of which shall be announced at the weekend!) so got my good friend Mr C to use his magical printing powers – then I popped round to his abode to collect said prints, and do a quick Movember shoot to show off his ‘tashe.

Which, I think, brings us pretty much up to date so far. There are some exciting things in the pipe line, but I don’t like to mention them until they have happened. Hopefully there will be two updates this weekend with news in them – there is also a trip to the Bakewell Christmas market this weekend to look forward too… and the opening for Advent Calendars 😀

Sometimes being a teacher has its perks. Today I got to take 24 pupils to Twycross Zoo.
The zoo has changed a lot since I was last there, which was at a guess about 4 years ago. However one thing which me really happy was the fact they are getting lions soon and this time the otters were actually out!

The gift shop/cafe had a snow leopard enclosure attached to it which was really nice – although conversations were really disjointed as people were talking to each other whilst staring out of the window and each time the leopards did anything conversation stopped, hehehe