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...a touch of pride....

This weekend was London LGBT Pride. I didn't go, though I had planned to. Instead it was a trip to Broxbourne to see the animals at the Paradise Wildlife Park. An early start was made, with me up before 6 am making tea with honey to kick start the day.

A drive up to Broxbourne, navigating by the sat nav map app thing on our phones, so our route a little meandering and here and there, but eventually....




It was hot, with the noise of a gazillion children and their families yelling and shrieking from surprise, excitement or excess of sugar!


Everything from meercat, white lions to big hairy spiders and red pandas......

most of them asleep under shade, or dozing in the mid day sun.



..a couple of tapirs at lunch....



a meercat ...look this way....


...and that...

...a curious one.... "hello!"






...time for a wee nap....






...one of the beautiful white lions there....








this fella was quite happy strutting around, cockle doo a doo-ing all the while....





emu and...



emu chick...



...one of the treats at Paradise is to be able to arrange close up and personal experiences of a lot of the inhabitents there....some kids get first hand feeding with some younger roos....magic!


...it was a lovely day, sunny and hot....and though today was London Pride, I was feeling a different kind of pride.....



The pride I felt was for my partner, Denise. Not just on the day, but since I have first known her and it increases day by day. Denise is one of those rare people who make life just that little bit better for anyone lucky enough to know her. Thinks of others before herself, passionate about justice and one who provides a heck of a lot of support for others.

Denise, you are my rock, my sunshine in the rain, the jam in my doughnut, the light of my life. I bless the day we first met, and through all the hassles of life and love I hope our time together never ends even if the universe itself expires. Thank you for a lovely weekend, and for all the other days we have shared and will share......hugs xxx

..bubble bubble toil and trouble....




eh!




tis S.C.O.R.C.H.I.O!

Bleeding heck, more sunshine than you can shake a stick at......

Just off work for this week, a stay at home summer holiday, though I am already missing the the AC at work. Best in the bulding, guaranteed 18 degrees, send shivers down your spine :D

......stepping back for a while, concentrating on me and mine with a bit of rest and recuperation....













o Mikey mansions is going green these days, with a host of new house plants.....a money plant, peace lily and something else I'm not sure what but its a climber so should be good....







Being at home this week, I'll be doing some cooking and baking to follow on from the runaway success of the blueberry and pineapple pie I made the other week. Even had enough left of the fruit to make a delicious compote thing for putting on ice cream, blueberry heaven in a jar :D




And it was Pride today in London, though I didn't make an appearance. Denise was down at the Broken Rainbow stall in Trafalgar Square and came back hot and tired. Central London in this heat is not to be recommended, still a successful day even if they ran out of promotional material after an hour. Pride is so big these days, and its pushed as a party so straights and tourists and even straight tourists love to join in the fun. Still......40 years now.....no time to be complacent!







I well remember 2007, with the first appearance of Spectrum (Haringey as it was known then) and the rain and smiles and mad vibe of it all. It would have been something to go this year, catch up with some folks and make new friends but for me, I just felt like peace and quiet, just me and the squirrels, blue tits, pigeons and the occasional confused bumblebee buzzing on through....working on something special as well.....

This is no pipes and slippers blog though! I'm recharging these old batteries and girding my loins anew for the year ahead (whatever loins are....).

This year I will

bake a fabulous cake for all my friends to enjoy
get something special off the ground (wait and see....more will be revealed soon, I hope)
leave this city for a real break, possibly using me passport this time....
learn to write letters again.....who needs email ?

not generally the time of year for resolutions, only these are more the good stuff and aiming higher than just planning on getting my weight down, giving up smoking or learning a new language (mind you, they're not bad ideas either :D )

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