smallhobbit | Birthday Thanks

All things considered, I had a good birthday. My mother phoned to wish me Happy Birthday - which wouldn't be unusual for many people, but she's in a care home and generally very woolly about dates, so that was a lovely way to begin the day. We also got to see my son and granddaughter in the afternoon, which will be the last time for at least five weeks, so that was good. And I treated myself to a livestream of a play from Chichester Festival Theatre. I wasn't struck with the play, and it confirmed me in my view that live streaming isn't really for me, but I was treating more as a donation to a theatre we had liked when we'd been so I didn't regret it.

My son had made me a Mary Berry banana cake with honey icing, which was delicious. And SM made me a chocolate cake, equally enjoyable.

My thanks go to

mafief

shallowness

corvidology and

solosundance for their good wishes;

moth2fic for a post featuring a spooky Tintern Abbey and

rusty_armour for a very appropriate card featuring Raymond de Merville here , to

margaret_r

luthienberen and

moth2fic for their e-cards, all of which made me smile. Also to

stonepicnicking_okapi and

debriswoman for all their good wishes.

stonepicnicking_okapi wrote me an amazing fic, which combined Shakespeare, Bagginshield and the Ferret, so was guaranteed to be a great success: The Play's The Thing

And friends and family gave me lots of crafty presents for my birthday, which was wonderful: