A long overdue Positanoooo

Day 3
Italy adventures that feel like an AGE ago

So instead of boring you with all the details. These are some pictures of Positano :)

Just a few little tips for anyone planning to explore this little coast line. We walked right down to the sea edge in Positano and all its stunning, I would recommend trekking up the hill a bit to eat though - as its cheaper! :)

La Rosa was a little restaurant by our villa and it had the best food ever. Sea food fresh from the water, homemade pizza, steak and Italian wine. One of the nicest places to eat!

Beautiful place.

I'm sorry but I had to

post this:

She sat like this. right.

more yay

This week has been a bit of a YAY week.

I have had a day-of-birth which included a LOT of amazingly tasty food and drink. We went to Arco Lounge in Harborne, which is a homely little cafe/bar that has a vast menu of pub grub, large portions of brunch and tapas including some tasty (and large) cocktails! Josh also feasted on Toga Ale, which had a picture of a man drunk in a toga on the tap... that is the sign of a good ale.

We also went to Byzantium in Kings Heath (I have mentioned this place before and will pop up some snaps of the food so you can have a nosey) which is my favorite little restaurant. Its a very small and beautiful restaurant with an incredible Mediterranean menu of halloumi and pork belly and roasted vegetables and omelets and all lip-smackingly-delcious treats. PLUS Creme Catalan for pudding!

Then there is the bunny!

SO these are just a few of my phone pictures from the last week.

A Starsky update:

For anyone raising a small bunny, here is what I am doing!

So little Starsky has had a busy few days. We are trying to encourage her to get used to outside, and its gone amazingly! The first time we set her outside she was terrified, she just sat by me and her she became very wide eyed and her ears were following every noise (I mean, a ladybird scared her) but my tip would be to sit next to them (wearing something she can recognize the smell of) and keep low so you don't tower over them. So, the next time... she was away! She loves grass and literally can at her body weight in it and loves frolicking so much.

Also her diet has been veggied up, we are feeding her all sorts of fruit and veg to see what she likes! (Although, fruit is so sugary to a rabbit that you should never give them too much!) Starsky seems to love broccoli, carrots, cucumber and apple but she hates the rabbit treats from the pet shop so much that she spits in out and buries it in her poo. pleasant.

Her recent tricks: watching grand designs, sleeping in my onesie pocket, sitting on Josh's shoulder and letting her back legs flop and this progressed to sitting on my head.

There we go. An interesting read, or a chunk of your life gone!

Excuse this bunny talk, its going to continue. And you though the fish updates were bad!

and they called it...

bunny love

Starsky has discovered a new talent... bunny kisses... this is going to be the windy road down to being a spinster with a bunny.

AND ITS ONLY BEEN A DAY

She also likes running up Josh's shoulder and sprawling.

Excellent.

Rabbit introductions

I would like you all to

Our little rabbittyyy girl

Starsky

So whenever she is in her hutch, I can claim there is Starsky in her Hutch.

And she is a crime fighting bunny

She is roughly a couple of months old (8 weeks) and used to live with 5 rowdy rabbit boys.

So far, she enjoys sitting on our stomach and her left leg always seems to flop all over the place. She is really calm and as rabbits are really sociable she loves to be talked to (apparently rabbits can make friends with birds!) and as she is soon to be an outdoorsy rabbit, but has to have a couple of weeks to adjust, we might have soon birdy visitors in the garden!

We got a booklet about all the plants and vegetables she can eat, apparently some give her gas and must be avoided! ha!

So that's my rundown so far. If you have any tips about rabbits, let me know!

birthday love

4 days to go, until I am the BIG 23.

So, I thought I would share twenty three...

1. Painting and getting it all over my hands (when you were young did you ever peal PVA glue off your fingers? best feeling everrr) and feeling ever so proud. New t shirts soon to be revealed...

2. The Matrix - rediscovering it all over again

3. Surprises (birthday ones too!)

4. A biscuit tin we bought and have filled with the classics: jammy dodgers, custard creams, chocolate digestives, shortbread bites and party rings. Its the little things in life eh?

5. The boys texting me when they are on the toilet.

6. Byzatium in Birmingham. This restaurant is a tapas restaurant, check out this lussshhh menu, this is the restaurant's site

7. Discussing my cheese farm plans 

8. Hearty cafe lunches

9. Watching this beaut on you tube: cats yawning

10. Having a night of laughing so hard that all the photos make our faces look mental

11. http://ranrah.tumblr.com/ - my tumblr page. I love funny cat pictures.

12. Topshop sales, finally a chance for me to buy that dress that was priced at a squillion pounds to a top-of-my-spending-range £20.

13. People who build amazing things from Lego

14. This song ... so I can bee FREEEEE (this accent makes me hot)

15. And on that note, Scott Mills on Radio 1. Bravo sir.

16. The Apprentice (I put a bet on Laura Hogg when the list of candidates was released. Team Hogg!)

17. Moustache styled things

18. Learning to design in flash and creating websites from scratch... yesss these fancy things are what I do at work! huzzah!

19. The Junction pub in Harborne with scrabble and grilled asparagus pub food?!? And Harborne pubs in general.

20. FHM (without their opinions on the sexiest woman)

21. Joshs-rumba-hoover-watching session

22. Maxi dresses

23. Him <3

a week summed up by that ugly mug:

See this happy face. Yes that is Candyfloss, direct from a bar... and it sums up my weeks worth of:

A posh meal out for the Chamber of Commerce Awards

An evening out with my lovely friends.

Exploring the pubs of Harborne

Scrabble Friday

A massive carvery meal fit for kings

Green screening at work

Watching Man City v. Man United with the added bonus of scrumpy cider and a cat.

Over and Out

this is our new pad

We have been in our pad for a lovely 2 weeks and this is a wee glimpse at our little threesome of a house.

...and some reasons why its making me a wee bit happy:

:)

pompeiiiiii

Day 2

Pompeii

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.  You know, when Pokemon cards were all the rage. However, the most 'mazin thing about it is, the city was preserved so perfectly by volcanic ash that now people like me can prance around it and see what it might have been like to be a Roman.

When the volcano erupted it took only moments for the city to be covered in ash and hot lava... and it was so thick and heavy that the roofs of all the buildings collapsed under the weight and the hot ash would have killed anyone not sheltering in the buildings in an instance. There are many tales of people trying to escape by boat and one famous case of a dog that was killed (poor pooch) after being covered in the ash when left chained to his master's house. Yet, because the ash filled the buildings and kept them upright and all the gooey insides were all protected.. this meant when historians (the cool cats of the world) came to explore it, they could discover everything about the city as if it had been parcelled up for them.

So, we walked around all fancy pants and saw the city. Got a bit lost. Saw a Pompeii whore house. Tried to find the people and families covered in ash (because that's the kind of family we are), which resulted in my mum asking Italians "do you know where the dead babies are?" excellent. We even sneakily followed an English tour guide for a while. FREEBIES.

We also parked in a cafe carpark and got tricked into eating their un-fresh food. BOO. So, if you go, don't do that!

I don't have a witty ending for this. Other than, I wish it was that sunny again.

panda love

I love pandas.

So, today when I bought the jumper (at the very top) I got a little sidetracked. Enjoy my pandasss