Birthday presents...

A lovely year of birthday presents: all thoroughly useful/entertaining/well thought out. Writing a quick note to self here to make sure that I have a list from which to write my thank you cards.....
So...
a steamer and some vouchers
a set cake airing racks (three tiers - so handy) and some mini whisks
a slow cooker cookbook and some money
a board game
a necklace
a book on learning Hebrew
a collection of poems
a cookbook about cooking MEAT (called 'MEAT'!)
a nice easy listening CD
a good CD for the motorway (i.e. loud rock music!)
a pot plant
two nice tea towels

So, cooking, books and music. Does very nicely indeed and I am very grateful.

Birthday weekend: Friday

Left the office at 5pm (after bringing in Krispy Kremes for colleagues which meant tragically that I had to have one too). Up to Bethnal Green by 5.45pm to meet F+A who had been well looked after by MGS. Tea, flapjacks (from the recipe last weekend) and then walking over to Brick Lane which was much closer than I had thought (although possibly my heeled boots were not the best choice of footwear).
All in all we were 12: The (Lovely) Lawyer, the Clever Engineer, F+A, MGS, me, AP JohnLiz (the latter half only at the end), Brocko, PC (Hellenist) and Mrs PC and Mrs Vicar. Really, really lovely and relaxed evening, with good food. 7-11pm ish.