Would you let me

It has been so rare for a new beautifully simple song to come out. A song that has meaningful lyrics rather than two words repeated over and over again with no intellectual or emotional input. But at least sometimes we get something like this:

Yours,
Tina Teaspoon

Want Want Want

                                                                            

What I want from Zara today.

Black Dog

I am sorry but I cannot not blog this. Nicole Scherzinger has recorded the most amazing song Black Dog by Led Zeppelin:

To be honest, not many people can pull off a cover of this song but I do like Nicole's version.

Owl day

A month ago or so me and my BF went to Birds Of Prey Centre in Bedfordshire.  It was one of the most amazing days that I have had for many reasons but the most important one is that I spent most of the morning with Owls. We started off by being introduced to three different sized Owls – Pete, Harriet & Petri. 

The lovely person from the centre (whose name I can’t remember) has talked us through the owls and allowed each of us to hold them. Pete, the male of the three, had really big beautiful eyes.  He’s the type of an owl that has hairs sticking out between his eyes and if you stroke them it makes him fall asleep. That’s pretty amazing when you see it done, they start snoozing in half a second.

Harriet was the biggest of them all and she did weigh quite a bit. I could hold her only for a little bit of time before my arm started feeling very tired.

 

And there was Petri – the smallest one. I hold her for the longest time and she weight barely anything. I could hold her quite close to myself and it was just wonderful. Whilst I had her on my arm some sort of eagle flew buy and she suddenly shrunk half the size and became very skinny and still. I was told that’s how small owls try to avoid to be killed by other birds – trying to blend into the environment and also look as small as possible so that they would not be spotted. When my BF was holding her she tried to fly away couple of times and was really interesting to watch her flying in the same spot, flapping her wings as hard as possible. She was tied to BFs hand that’s so she couldn’t fly away.

Later we actually were allowed to fly some of other owls which was just brilliant. Seeing them fly towards you quietly and landing perfectly on your arm is something that everyone should experience. Owls don’t really make any sounds when they fly so if you wouldn’t know that they are flying past you then you could miss them or get really startled by them.

Me flying a barn owl

Having this experience with them is beyond describing how much fun I had and how much more in love I am with them.

Baby Owls

Yours,

Tina Teaspoon

 

P.S. The lovely person from the centre (whose name I can’t remember) has told us that Owls are actually not very smart birds and there association to knowledge is just a myth. Just because they hand around Athena does not mean that they are intelligent. That kind of did upset me a bit as it crushed my heart. That’s what I always thought about Owls, how smart they are. Nevertheless, Owls are my most favourite birds.

P.S.S. There also was another show of birds after the owl experience day which also was really good fun. We saw eagles, pelicans and all sorts of other birds performing some flying and other tricks. If highly recommend to go to Birds Of Prey Centre and spend there a day. (http://www.birdsofpreycentre.co.uk/)

Something new

This is something new and old at the same time

Yours,
Tina Teaspoon

One lovely Saturday I went to Hampton Court which was amazing, truly amazing! I loved the court and the history it breathes. It is definitely worth it to go there and spend the day. You can see the Kings private rooms, the oldest maze in the world, beautiful gardens and King Henry the VIII walking around the court. I will definitely try to go there one day again.

The Hampton Court day was ended with an afternoon champagne tea. Yet again it was my first time experiencing what is a true British afternoon tea and I was not disappointed with it. British do know what to serve with a good cup of tea.

As always yours,

Tina Teaspoon

Where is summer

Sometimes there are glimpses of summer here in London. Not often, not very often really but just sometime.

I've been in UK for five years now and if you ask what I miss most I will tell you that I miss sun and warmth. And can you believe that last month was the first time I have ever tried Pimms. Why no one told me about Pimms before?! It tastes wonderfully!

I can't believe it's already August. I feel like I have not had any summer time at all which kinda makes me sad because we are nearly at the end....

Yours,
Tina Teaspoon