Yesterday we took the little cookie to London Zoo – for the first time!

Needless to say it was packed with kids and their families, being a Saturday. But also, surprisingly (to me, at least) full of couples on what looked very much like first and second dates. Sweet, innocent delight in the tigers, pelicans, tapirs, giraffes, monkeys – kids and couples alike. Bad luck for me that my camera battery had run out and I was just left with my iPhone, which eventually ran out too and before I could try to capture the fabulous elegant gait of the giraffes. Let it be known, the enclosure are pretty big and it’s entirely dependant on where the animals are as to whether you will catch a glimpse. Our second visit to the tigers we were rewarded with an intense devouring of a turkey – spell-binding – and from a distance we spotted a gorilla which felt pretty exciting. Anyway, here are some of my favourite shots rendered black and white before being without battery left me totally bereft, something not even another hot chocolate could fix. Fyi, the cafe’s hot choc was real GOOD!