My Hen Do in TOWIE Land

Bit of a delayed blog on this, but I feel compelled to write about my Hen Do!  It was literally the best night EVER!

My best friend Laura May Wheable organized a sensational job!  My sister-in-law Ellie and my friend Kim all travelled down to Brentwood in Essex for the celebrations. We arrived at our hotel and when I went up to my room it had already been decorated and I had loads of pressies on my bed waiting for me!  It was so exciting, I felt so special that all this effort had been made just for me.

After a quick removal of my wonderful sleeprollers http://www.velcrosleeprollers.com/ I had big beautiful bouncy hair ready to start celebrating!

We made our way to the Slug & Lettuce and all my lovely friends were there waiting for me!  I felt so giddy with excitement!  There was pink Lanson waiting for me (my favourite) and I have to say I think I was a bit tiddly after about half an hour as they were making me drink through a straw!  We played some brilliant games, I got even more pressies and had a yummy lunch.

After consuming even more bubbly we made our way back to the hotel and got ready for our night out in Sugarhut!!  How I managed to take my makeup off, have a shower and put my makeup back on I will never know!  We went to one pub first then made out way on to the Hut.  It is fantastic!  The only bad thing I would say about it is that it is really really busy and I think that they let too many people in, would be better with a few less.  Also the drinks are really expensive, £40 for 8 shots and £55 for the cheapest bottle of bubbly. And plastic glasses, not ideal!  And not enough loos, we queued for about 15 mins for the loo.  But, the music is brilliant, the atmosphere is great and we did not stop dancing.

Unfortunately I didn’t get to meet Mick or Kirk so a little disappointed but I did manage to get a photo with Little Chris from TOWIE, what an absolute gent!

Evening complete with pizza on the way home and I woke up with a sub woofer hanger over that lasted 2 days.  All in all a FANTASIC night and what a brilliant send off from my girls, amazing, thank you and I Love you all.

Jx

Me with my rollers!

Me & my Chiefy B Laura and the youngest Hen in our party, Ava x

I'm getting married!

Winners of a game! L-R Tara, Jenn, Ellie

Me & Laura x

Kim, Me, Morgs

Kim, Tara, Me

All about the Donkeys

In Brightwell-cum-Sotwell near to where my parents live there is a Donkey Sanctuary with the most amount of donkey's I have ever seen!  The sanctuary is lovely, vast open fields, lovely stables, they even have some other farm animals that they have acquired over the years including goats, sheep, ducks, geese, chickens and a rather mischievous Shetland Pony!

Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary is run mostly by volunteers and they all work so hard to keep the donkeys happy.  It is a registered charity which cares for and protects abused and ill-treated donkeys and other animals. I read in one of their news letters that one of the donkeys was recused before she could be used for meat in salami - I will never eat salami again now for as long as I live.

They are always looking for help and ways to raise money to help keep the donkeys and rescue as many as possible.  They put on table top sales and jumble sales and craft fairs, and you can even adopt a donkey which both me and my Mum did last weekend.  I adopted Brewster and Mum adopted Jack.  I pay my contribution on a mnonthly basis and Mum gave them a lump sum cheque.  All proceeds go to keeping the sanctuary going.

If you are ever in the South Oxfordshire area it is definately worth a look, a great place to take the kddies for an hour and all donations are appreciated.

Jx


http://www.donkeyrescue.co.uk/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary Old Didcot Road, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. OX10 0SW Telephone: 01491 833938 Fax: 01491 833938 mail@donkeyrescue.org.uk