This week it has been my birthday. Yes. Well not quite a week:
Thursday- pretend birthday with mum, dad and youngest sister- see the cake in the previous post.
Friday- Lindy Hop Heaven where I got a birthday jam- Hurrah!
Saturday- little party at my house as (selectedly) pictured here (frog cake+thalidomide balloon, and various people). We made the frog cake red on the inside because real frogs are red on the inside, and no-one I invited was horrified. Or at least, no-one was too horrified to eat the cake.
Sunday...continuation of birthday cake and some swing,
Monday- today- my actual birthday.
Hurray. That's lots of birthday. Today is likely to be a lot less exciting but that's ok as lots of excitement has already happened. Karma gave me a couple of presents today in the form of some good books (Tom Holt's "The Better Mousetrap", and The Mighty Book of Boosh) being as new from the Oxfam bookshop. I also cashed some birthday cheques. Huzzah!!
Oxfam shops are brilliant. They mean I can go shopping and buy cheap things for me, and still feel like I'm being selfless and helping the world. Everyone wins. Hurrah! I highly recommend the world of the charity shop. Except for Mind in Headingley which smells like a 25 stone jogger has done a marathon, pooed himself, and then died under the table, 6 weeks ago.
Today I also opened my Gran's presents, which consisted of a book for 4 year olds about a witch called "No Room on the Broom", and a bird box. Going a bit do-lally? I shall continue to monitor this carefully. I don't know what to do with either item.
Other things.
I am extremely happy to see another series of That Mitchell and Webb Look. I love them both. but mostly David Mitchell. I enjoy ranty intelligent wit. We would host brilliant dinner parties. But would not feature on Come Dine With Me, because that show is *tripe*. I also don't mind his haircut, despite it's potential facism.
I am currently not at fencing because IT IS HOT and fencing is also hot, therefore to be fencing whilst it's hot is very unpleasant due to having to wear all protective clothing so as not to be skewered/horribly bruised. It's no Kendo, but it's also not curling. Curling would be more fun in this weather.
This means that I will finish my fencing lessons having no idea what is going on at all... hopefully Christina will teach me how to fence when it's not so hot.
Environmental Supplement:
I would like to encourage people to have a lil look at this site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/
If you have free time here are some little practical things you can do to encourage biodiversity. Things like leaving a corner of wild garden are particularly helpful if you have wild flowers with accessible pollen for bees (i.e. things that do not have tight flowers they can't get into). I would love a hedgehog home but I don't think really that Burley is a great place for them.
Light releif bit:
If you haven't seen this before, by Dan and Dan, it is exellent in many ways. Love.
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1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
ReplyDelete2. I'm sad I missed your party. I would have appreciated a frog cake that was red on the inside muchly.
3. LIES! There's nothing wrong with come dine with me. Admittedly there's not a whole lot intellectually stimulating going on there but hey, I spend most of my days being highly intellectual. I don't need it in my TV. I would also heartily recommend Wife Swap.
4. (Insert something clever here so point 3 is forgotten)
5. I like biodiversity but not when it includes bees so a wide variety of tightly closed flowers for me it is. Unless they attract wasps. I dislike those even more than bees.
6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I realise I already said that but it's always good to re-iterate your main point. Wouldn't want it getting lost in a load of babble now...
-Amie :)
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