Weekend Away......

We  have had a lovely weekend away with my lovely Mum and my sister--Bill was well and truly out numbered! We had got some bargain rooms from Groupon at a new Holiday Inn in Birmingham,,,so decided to go and have a tour round Cadbury World using my Tesco vouchers-that saved a lot of money...used just £10 worth to get us all into the Cadbury World where if we had paid cash it would have been £60  so worth doing if you have them....

Mum and Sha...

It was really interesting to go round the factory..and we had quite a few freebies as well given  us,,all still in the fridge at the moment-except Bills Crunchie bar--he couldn't resist it...

We saw the drumming gorilla in action-that was brilliant...

when we came outside it had been raining  and we were greeted with this beautiful rainbow.....

The Holiday Inn on the Coventry Rd has only been open since last August and its still pristine.....it was Mums first stay away from home in over 40  years and she loved it...

I had also bought Groupon vouchers for an Indian meal and we all went to the Kasturi restaurant---it was a lovely meal...

but oh boy did we all make a mess on the lovely white tablecloth!

the shower at the Holiday Inn was huge and one of the best we have had in a room...could have stayed there all day...

good size rooms as well.....couldn't complain about any of it --had a great breakfast  when we got up...it was a real treat for mum and Sha....and for us after the horrible week we had last week losing our poor Sparky  cat..

when we returned home today after going shopping around Brum and picking up some bargains we found this pheasant out on the back patio...there was a pheasant years ago who used to follow Sparky cat around everywhere--we used to think it was because Sparks was a similar colour to a hen pheasant! Everywhere he went this pheasant followed,poor Sparks used to get right fed up with it and kept looking behind him all the time....I wonder if this was Sparks little mate come to say goodbye to him....he flew off into the field as soon as he saw me......we miss that little cat more every day....he was always here to greet us as soon as the car pulled up, no matter what time or how long we had been away...