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A warm, cosy bonfire night

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Bonfire night is one of my favourite nights of the year, this end of the year is my favourite because there's always something going on, Halloween had just finished and bonfire night was just around the corner. I realise I'm a little late posting this, but absolutely had to when I was looking back through my photos. Abbey park fireworks is all the rage in Leicester, it's "the place" to go. But the last few years it seems to have lost it's magic. We started to go to the one in Whetstone at the Vipers ground and it is the best firework show I've ever seen. They go so overboard with the fireworks despite it being quite a small, intimate place, there's a small fair, an even smaller BBQ (but the queue is relatively fast) and plenty of beer (whilst being predominantly child friendly). I absolutely love it there, the bonfire is so huge and the heat that comes off of it is almost unbearable but I love being warm, wrapped up in coat and bobble hat, drink in han...

Tunisian photo diaries

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It's been a while since I've posted again. I went on holiday with my family, was all excited to post about it once I got back, but came home to no internet, so we had to wait for that to get sorted. I have such a long list of posts I want to get out, starting today with a little photo diary of my trip away to Tunisia. We spent two weeks in the little country north of Africa, where the temperature was a few degrees above absolute perfection and the culture was so interesting, and food so different from ours. There were camels who liked chewing my shoes and slobbering all over my face, trips to local landmarks, and small farms where we ate fresh bread cooked outside in an old school oven. There was even an ostrich at some point. And horse riding on dirt paths. Here's the first of my photo diaries:  I had actually tanned quite a bit but my leg compared to my mum's is quite scarily pale. Fair skin problems.  This am...