My Birthday, my b-b-b-Birthday

Today is my birthday. I have had a wonderful day.

Firstly, after no days off this month, I got a sleep in! Jodie took care of the guests, brought me coffee in bed, and then a full cooked breakfast. That means, poached eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomato, sausage... and there was no room on the plate for baked beans.

Then I got to lie in bed with the laptop, and get some birthday wished online... and play some more World of Warcraft... Of course, more coffee was delivered. Yum.

A quick interlude with some room cleaning, done in record time so we could get out to Spikey beach for a picnic. As you can see from the picture above, it was a perfect day, and very relaxing on the beach in the middle of a work day. We could have stayed there the whole day, but alas... duty called. Jodie even organised some dive bombing birds to perform, of a different species than usual [so I'm not sure if she actually taught them the trick]. Now that's attention to detail!

I had a fantastic dinner [maybe photos later]. Jodie made blinis with creme fraiche [Jodie will help with spelling later] and salmon roe. To follow, we had spicy lamb shanks, with mashed potato and green beans. After completely over indulging, we feasted on Robyn's clinkers, and turkish delights, which arrived in the mail today!

For our evening entertainment, we watched The Illusionist. I loved the movie, and as always, Edward Norton is superb!

Thanks to everyone who rang, text messaged, emailed [had a chat online], or sent a card. A special thanks to Jodie for completely spoiling me and finding me the perfect present[s]. I've had a fantastic day, and it's reality will colour my glasses even more rose coloured for weeks and months to come.