....Zoo......

Well today was a NSD (No Spend Day) :-) My aim is to get 10 of these this month! I'm on 3 i think already, tomorrow is shopping day and i've been good, and been on My supermarket to compare prices! £97 quid at waitrose....and only £59 at Asda...how can that be?! I wonder if the foods at W/R really are of better quality than those at Asda for that price difference....I could have probably chosen top brands at Asda and still come in around the same price as w/r *shocking*

We spent the afternoon at the zoo today getting use out of our year passes, we arrived about 1pm and Tabitha & Caleb headed straight to the Park, we managed to co-erce them out of the park to actually see some animals by around 2pm, and by 3pm she wanted to go back to the park & Caleb was flat out in the pram! I may as well have saved the petrol money and walked them to the park at the back of the house, kids eh!

Caleb is going through a biting stage at the moment, earlier he actually bit Tabtiha so hard she is now left with permanent teeth marks & a big purple bruise. I don't think I've ever heard her cry so much the poor little thing. I told Caleb off and he just turns around and says 'NO' and tries to smack you in the face :/ The naughty step doesn't work, perhaps maybe he is too young (21 months) or perhaps he is just naughty and doesn't care .*phone is ringing BRB*...just had a phone call interrupting my mumbling train of thought there, from Ethan :) He reeled off a list of things he wants bought for him, cricket whites, pokemon tins, pokemon games, ds fixed oh and he told me he loved me and then had to go...i'll say it again, KIDS!

So as I said we went to the zoo, and I find it quite depressing sometimes. I look at some of the animals and their little enclosures and I just think, they should be out in the wild, with vast amounts of space not a little wired enclosure with not enough space to break into a run. Then I see the signs up 'only 600 left in the wild' (Tigers), 'nearly extinct' (gorillas) and I think, well the Zoo's are doing their bit to encourage the extinct species to copulate and reproduce with one another....so they are doing good. BUT I just can't shake that feeling off that animals should be in the wild, we should stop hunting them, we should all become vegetarians, we should all just stop tearing down rain forests, and hunting animals for their skins, furs, tusks etc ...I read that tigers are hunted down by Chinese people mostly for medicinal purposes, they believe nearly every part of a tiger is useful in curing some sort of illness, disease or problem. I'm not so sure myself, but obviously this blog isn't written by Doctor Victoria so i'm not really qualified to say this.....

oh God how depressing, i'm now wondering if anyone is bothering to even read this lol...i'm debating now whether to chill my plum wine from Dover Castle.....i can hear it calling me, and I know I have chocolate left upstairs....Hmmmmmmm ..right-o i'm going as otherwise I will just rant on about animals....oh and also I read on one of the visitor notices...'we know that one of our chimpanzee's rocks back and forth, she was saved from a laboratory and was being tested on, we think she has past traumas that she can remember, hence her depression & rocking to comfort her' (ok not word for word, I don't have a photographic memory unfortunately) but how sad???? :(