Birthday stuff

[muninnhuginn]

Had birthday. Not too painful, actually. Stayed in bed till late eating croissant, smoked salmon (organic, Orkney) and scrambled egg, opening cards and presents, and reading. Bearing in mind M bought us the latest Stephen Donaldson it's a little surprising we made it out of bed for lunch at the new Italian at all. We did, and ate far too much (munching the remains of the pizza we brought home with us right now), and then got a cake with a candle on it too.

To rewind a little, Looby Loo and the ravens popped in to the restaurant last week on the way home from school and booked a table (unnecessary in the end as the place was empty when we turned up yesterday) at which point the following exchange took place:

Looby Loo: It's my mummy's birthday.
Maitre d': She doesn't look old enough.

So cake there was.

By bedtime, early due to M's taxi for the airport being booked for 5.15am, we were half a Donaldson happier (the first "clench" we encountered on page 32, for those that indulge, and the second was after page 200: slim pickings!) and left the book downstairs so we wouldn't be tempted to read all night. With M away we could read all night every night for the next week were it not for the necessity of getting LL out to school each morning. Sighs. Sometimes being growed up is annoying.

The book and CD haul, via a bit of purchasing and passing on to LL, BR raiding our Amazon wishlist, and telling M what we wanted, was:

• the new Donaldson
• the first part of Bob's autobiography
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Heroes and Villains
• the latest k d lang (for the Leonard Cohen covers)
• Jean Pierre Rampal doing jazz
• Thomas Bloch playing ondes martenot.

What with the albeit small haul from Novacon and this lot the notion of reducing the piles of books by the futon by reading two for every one bought has completely gone out of the window (if the window were accessible: the books are rather in the way).

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hippy Boofday 2 Ewes!

[muninnhuginn]

Baa!

[armb.livejournal.com]

My Amazon wishlist has 105 items on it (though it is actually the family wish list).
Happy Birthday yesterday. What/where is "the new Italian"?

[muninnhuginn]

Beat you: my wish list has, still, 250+ items, including stuff for Looby Loo, but mainly for me.

The new Italian is in what was the Globe (opposite Cambridge United's ground). It's called something really boring like the Pizzeria and it opened about two weeks back. The chinese takeaway next door also opened very recently and does a fine crispy duck. Pipasha's round the corner does very good Indian food. I sometimes wonder why I cook at all.

happy day!

[prufrock.livejournal.com]

sounds like you actually had a relaxing b-day. a lazy day with a good book; there are far worse quotidian happenstances. good for you!

mine's coming up next Sunday, and this is just about the first time i've thought about it...

also the first time i've been on LJ in about a million years, oh well. i'm not dead, though! ;-) pf.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lovely day - and a good haul, too!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! It sounds lovely ... as does the maitre'd!