Pottery

This week I started my pottery classes - I'm taking classes locally for beginners :)

Its a 10 week course and this week we learned how to create 'pinchpots' which is the oldest form of pot making - and one of the most difficult (we were told afterwards lol). We could decide what to make and some people are making piggybanks - others are making garlic pots, vases etc etc. I'm just making a pot for my writing desk and it will probably have a tilted neck and it has rosettes on it. Like little emblems attached to it.

The class went well and I know one of the girls in my class - she was actually Susannahs grade 1 teacher!!!

Next week we are making welcome signs. One week we will make sushi dishes, another week snowmen, another week plates...I can't remember what else. By the end of the course we will be proficient on the wheel. All pieces will be fired and glazed before we leave.

It was fun :)

Guinea pigs galore......

The Zoo now has this amazing Guinea pigs exhibit with like a million guinea pigs!!!!! They are all in there running about and hiding in things and under things and then the keepers come along and throw food in and all of a sudden the piggies start squealing and come running out and all huddle together to feed!!! It's adorable!!! There are fully grown piggies and teeny tiny babies!!! The Keeper held a tiny baby up for Sam to stroke! We couldn't believe quite how many piggies there were!!

The year of the frog.....

I thought these guys were the strangest frogs in the 'year of the frog' exhibit.....

Lucy takes a wander........

Lemurs...

Kind of cute I guess....although I'm still put off by the fact that they wipe their butts on the walls and then lick the walls clean afterwards.....yuck :( And they just look so sad :( kind of depressing creatures really!

Red Pandas...

These cuties are just adorable...they remind me of Edinburgh Zoo where I first saw them. I just wanted to bring them home with me :) Aren't they adorable?

Day at the Zoo......

The weather forecast today was GORGEOUS! There was no WAY we were going to waste it, so I planned to take Sam to the zoo - we were going to go last week when Lloyd was home, but it rained on the Friday and we ended up driving on passed the zoo and going to the glow golf instead! So we decided to go to the zoo today instead!

While I was sat in bed drinking my coffee this morning, the phone rang and it was Lloyd phoning from work! He said that he had finished the work he needed to do and so he was coming home and was coming to the zoo with us!!! Yay!!

So off we went to the zoo for the day :) The weather was soooo lovely with this really strong WARM breeze that was just so nice. By the time we were on our way home, the car was saying it was 27c outside!!!! Of course it's been so much cooler lately and we've had a few frosts already so the leaves have started to change and the colours everywhere are so pretty - the leaves were falling from the trees and it's very pretty everywhere! I wore my Fall boots and after an hour or so my feet were HOT :( I think I should have worn my sandals and my cropped pants instead!!!! ;)