Gromit Unleashed 2!

I think it’s safe to say we all grew up watching Wallace and Gromit.  It might be that you watched it the first time round (in my case) or the many times it’s been repeated over the years.  The two lovable characters were created and developed by Nick Park based…

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Bristol Zoo by Twilight

Hear the roar of the lion, the chatter of monkeys and the squawks of the lorikeets during the evening at Bristol Zoo’s Twilight Nights. I’m ashamed to say that I’d never been to Bristol Zoo until they kindly invited me and JB to attend the first of their Twilight Nights.  Every Friday…

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Burgers on a Boat in Bristol (aka Three Brothers Burgers)

This weekend saw the ‘Siblings Unite’ – it’s quite tricky getting the three of us together as my sister is in Devon, my brother is in Norwich and I’m in Wiltshire.  My brother was home for the weekend (in Devon) so we took the opportunity on Sunday to all meet…

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Freaking out to Freakshakes!

A what now?!  A freakshake – or a pimped up version of a milkshake that’s what!  These monster milkshakes started out in Australia and have now made their way over to the UK.  The concept is simple…the bigger the better and anything goes – top that shake with cream, chocolate…

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Gin Gin Gin..& more Gin! #BEDM14

So you might have seen that I was VERY excited to be at the Bristol Gin Festival this weekend. I’ve been wanting to go for a couple of years but tickets tend to sell out rapidly and I’m always about a week to slow so when I was invited by…

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