Rachel's Next Adventure

Avengers | Infinity War The movie everybody has been waiting for — a movie which promised so much — was always going to disappoint, however, no matter what the disappointments, the high points of the movie are extremely high and extremely well done. This movie moves forward at a frantic pace, tearing from scene to scene and jumping between groups of hero’s so fast that sometimes it feels like they’re trying to cram too much in which could have easily moved over two or three movies. So at the end of the movie, we find The Avengers completely defeated. Mission failed. Thanos has succeeded… although did you expect anything else? If they beat Thanos here, how will there be an Avengers 4? There are some quite touching parts, humorous parts, plenty of action, and questions of morality. Thanos believes that he is doing something for the good of the universe in killing 1/2 of the living beings in it, at random. He even says that the success of his plan so far has backed him up,...

Just another quick Japan trip planning update, on Tuesday we booked our hotel for Osaka! We've booked the Granvia Osaka, we've previously stayed at the Granvia Hiroshima and the place was great, the best thing about the Granvia hotels is that they're located within the JR Stations, so early trains out are easy to catch and you have to get that extra little bit of sleep and late trains in bring to practically straight to your room so you're ready to crash. We've not actually booked our JR Passes yet! But, I received an email from Expedia offering the Granvia Osaka at a great rate with only one room left so I just snatched it up, it has free cancellation until a couple of days before the arrival date so i'm not worrying too much about that. It's sadly not Granvia floor, but it has a city view so it'll do! The other reason we've chosen the Granvia hotels for our travels this time is it means we wont need to worry about getting a luggag...

To follow on from our January Home Update  it's about time I update you with what else we've managed to do so far this year. Not going to lie, February, we didn't really get anything done. We spent most of the time going back and forth between Wilko's buying storage boxes, filling them up, labelling them and sticking them in the loft. Our back room is pretty much empty now except for a few wardrobes, POP figures and boxes and boxes of photography props. With the bad weather - aka the beast from the east - coming in March we spent the time stripping the wall paper ready for when we get the plastering all done.  We took a trip to Maplin before it closes down to pick up some USB sockets ready to have the living room sockets changed over, we still need some single sockets for the bedroom though because Maplin didn't have any. We took advantage of the snow problems - our bins couldn't be collected so the council announced that on the ne...