Many Happy Returns...
Mar. 13th, 2009 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3Had a great birthday (and thanks to all who wished me one, either here or on FB - your wishes were granted).
To begin with, I got a bushel of gifts at work, which I hadn't expected at all. Really thoughtful things too. I even got taken for lunch. After that the fiercely political meeting I chaired in the afternoon didn't annoy me at all.
Last night![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
unblinkered made a fantastic dinner for five - my friends Kay, James and Eddie came over. We had skewered prawns marinaded in mint, lemon and garlic, then our organic leg of mutton in a herb crust with polenta and carrots, and then a honey and nut parfait to end with. It was a fabulous meal, and all the more impressive for being unblinkered's first Moroccan themed meal. She is fabulously talented, and I'm a lucky man.
Alcohol consumption was high, and of good quality (which seems to have contributed to my lack of hangover). Champagne, good wines, a couple of malts. This may explain why Singstar came out after dinner. James had a stab at "Ring of Fire", Eddie demured, and we had to prise the microphone from Kay's cold, dead fingers.unblinkered won.
I'd booked today off as a holiday, so a lazy lie in was followed by a MacDonald's breakfast, and then a wander around the street I lived in 38 years ago. The old tenenments have been replaced by workshops - a bike charity operates from the old address - and a new road cuts across the old one. I did a little bit of trying to overlay my memories from when I was seven on the place.
Then we had a brief stroll along the canal, before I decided I didn't like the look of that bloody swan.
Crocuses and daffs are out all along the canal and the Kelvin now. I like having my birthday in Spring- birth and rebirth all wrapped up together.
This afternoon my mum and her husband, my brother, his girlfriend and my two nieces are coming over for Kaffe and Kuchen.
Tomorrow morning we pick up unblinkered's mum from the ferry and drive to the cottage for the weekend.
Life is good.
To begin with, I got a bushel of gifts at work, which I hadn't expected at all. Really thoughtful things too. I even got taken for lunch. After that the fiercely political meeting I chaired in the afternoon didn't annoy me at all.
Last night
unblinkered made a fantastic dinner for five - my friends Kay, James and Eddie came over. We had skewered prawns marinaded in mint, lemon and garlic, then our organic leg of mutton in a herb crust with polenta and carrots, and then a honey and nut parfait to end with. It was a fabulous meal, and all the more impressive for being unblinkered's first Moroccan themed meal. She is fabulously talented, and I'm a lucky man. Alcohol consumption was high, and of good quality (which seems to have contributed to my lack of hangover). Champagne, good wines, a couple of malts. This may explain why Singstar came out after dinner. James had a stab at "Ring of Fire", Eddie demured, and we had to prise the microphone from Kay's cold, dead fingers.
unblinkered won. I'd booked today off as a holiday, so a lazy lie in was followed by a MacDonald's breakfast, and then a wander around the street I lived in 38 years ago. The old tenenments have been replaced by workshops - a bike charity operates from the old address - and a new road cuts across the old one. I did a little bit of trying to overlay my memories from when I was seven on the place.
Then we had a brief stroll along the canal, before I decided I didn't like the look of that bloody swan.
Crocuses and daffs are out all along the canal and the Kelvin now. I like having my birthday in Spring- birth and rebirth all wrapped up together.
This afternoon my mum and her husband, my brother, his girlfriend and my two nieces are coming over for Kaffe and Kuchen.
Tomorrow morning we pick up unblinkered's mum from the ferry and drive to the cottage for the weekend.
Life is good.
