Reviews for your pets and children and more. We enjoy an active, adrenaline filled life with our young daughter, bengal cats and dogs. I am a keen photographer and videographer.
It's been three years since our first date in a local pub.
We just went for a drink but at the end of the night managed to get involved in the owner's lock in! They had forgotten we were still there lol! It was the owner's birthday so they were having a bit of a celebration.
Mark went to Go Ape last April with his niece and parents, I was very jealous as was at work. We finally got a day together and Mark booked us in at Go Ape, Cannock. Yeah!!
I expected Go Ape to be dead easy and just a few zip lines here and there – how wrong was I!! We started with a safety briefing and shown how to put our harnesses on, after the initial briefing and short demo you are left to it to some extent. We were shown which clips clipped to what and it was all quite easy as everything was colour coded and the important thing was – always stay clipped on!!
Off we went fully briefed, it started with a tall rope ladder into the tree tops, no problem I thought, halfway up I started to notice how high I was going – it didn’t look this high from the ground! Go Ape is split into 5 sections, each one starts with a climb into the tree tops and ends with a zip line which takes you back onto the forest floor. In amongst these are rope bridges, tarzan swings, rope nets, suspended tunnels and more!
The first tarzan swing I was a bit unsure about jumping off a platform that high up, but I gathered myself together and went for it. To start with I was proceeding quite cautiously over the crossings from tree to tree but as I came to section 5 I was a lot more confident. However it came to the last tarzan swing which was the biggest off them all and quite a drop off the platform! A girl in front sat on the edge and bottled it, I knew I wanted to do it and wasn’t going to take the easy route round (which some did and consisted off a rope bridge). So I stood on the edge (didn’t sit) and thought I had to go for it so I stepped off that platform (I think I had my eyes closed) – once off it was great and I wanted to go again!
All in all it was a great fun experience and lasted about 2 ½ hours. I am a bit of an adrenaline junkie and it scared me a little bit which was great as I like a bit of a challenge! A friend of mine went for a hen do at a Go Ape venue, our instructor had said they had recently had a stag do – think this would be great fun with a group of you :)
Yesterday at PADS agility Cas & Ember qualified for the TAG Brace Final at TAG Easter Show 2013. I just hope Cas is still fit and active for it as she will be 13! It's nice to have one last final for her and I hope we can compete :)
Brace is a class where one handler runs two dogs - not at the same time! So I ran Cas round the course then I ran ember straight away. You are allowed someone else in the ring to hold one dog while you run the other so Mark did that for me.
I couldn’t publish these posts until today in case mum saw them before she got back, think it would have been unlikely but best not to ruin the surprise!!
She returned today and really liked it. We went round after work with a chippy and got back to work. Mark's hand tile had stopped working yesterday so we took the big tile cutter. Guess what blade was blunt on that too! So a mad rush to Wickes and another tile cutter later (cheaper than buying a blade for the other one!) We started work
We manage to finish off under the boiler and get the majority of the main room tiled. Left at 11pm tonight. Tomorrow am going to grout most of the main room but we can't do anything else as Mark is working all day and we're at a friend's wedding in the evening.
A few years ago Gina wrote a series of articles for Dogs Today on how to dance with your dog culminating in a short routine. 
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