Oh crikey - it's nice to be remembered (seeing as I am an absentee from the forum these days ).
Birthday or not, been working all day (damn job is still 14 x 7 but the thing goes live on Thu so hopefully some semblance of normality will return).
Birthday or not, I cooked brunch and will be kicking off the supper soon. Fiona has gone off to the allotment. Hopefully I can can go tomorrow for a few hours.
On the positive side, I did get some lovely pressies.
A cheque for £30 from MIL age 91. Bless. That will buy a ticket for Sunderland v Chelsea on Sat Sep 10. I have not been to a game in over a year so a treat is allowed.
The dogs gave me a pack of my favourite chocs in the whole world - Lindt Lindor. I would sell my gran for those . Sadly, they are already a distant memory.
Nothing from the chickens yet but I didn't have high hopes in the first place
My darling gave me four brilliant pressies:
- a hardcover book "The flavour thesaurus" that describes how to combine ingredients, like what goes best with what. 90 ingredients are covered. Brilliant!
- a crime thriller (740 pages!) "The Leopard" by Norwegian author, Jo Nesbo. Never heard of him but the blurb on the back cover definitely looks promising.
- a litre of Bells whisky - am on glass #2 and I do not intend to deploy any measure of self discipline whatsoever on my b'day and with a bank holiday tomorrow
- it's roast chicken for supper and with my favourite starter, a real throwback from the 70s - PRAWN COCKTAIL IN MARIE CURIE SAUCE (Ok, the Marire Curie bit is one of our in-house CSH jokes). On a bed of our kitchen garden lettuce, it will be a real treat. I suppose she expects me to share it with her
Thanks to everybody who posted a Happy B'day message. Lovely jubbley. I should not name individuals but I will: Mutley, old chap, great to see that you are still kickinass. We want you and Jade to join us next July for the meet-up. That would be "wicked".
And yes, I don't look a day over 35. That bit is 100% true
Never knowingly underfed
Happy birthday Danny, hope your sober enoubke rto riead theais
JoannaS said:
Happy birthday Danny, hope your sober enoubke rto riead theais
You were obviously not sober enough to write it Joanna....but your secret's safe with me...it's the plum wine that we get in these rural environments..... and you thought it was 'womens' problems'.....
Hope your birthday went well Danny....it's a Bank Holiday, you have time to recover so back to the allotment tomorrow....
Here's a birthday hug.......well two of then...
Who lives long sees much : The diary of my life in Bulgaria
ep said:
JoannaS said:
Happy birthday Danny, hope your sober enoubke rto riead theais
You were obviously not sober enough to write it Joanna....but your secret's safe with me...it's the plum wine that we get in these rural environments.....
and you thought it was 'womens' problems'.....
The plum wine aided the reading then . Glad my secrets safe with you though Elsa
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