Well it was my birthday yesterday and what a lovely day I had. I stayed in bed all day and read and napped and read again. It was bliss. Alistair and Max brought in my presents before Max went to school and Alistair had bought a lovely gold chain with a gold Maltese cross which had a single diamond in the centre. He must have bought it when we were over there at Christmas after seeing me looking in the shop window and saying how pretty it was.
He is really getting good with presents now.
We don't talk about last year and what happened on my 50th Birthday, needless to say he has learnt the hard way that cartoon Character PJ's from H&M do not do it for a girl. I can't bring myself to tell the whole story, just that I am emotionally scarred by it enough to break out in a cold sweat at the sight of Minnie Mouse. Even the spa hotel he had booked for the weekend let us down and our house burglar alarm went off so we had to drive home the same night as we arrived ( false alarm). All in all not a great 50th, but still in the big scheme of things I have a fantastic husband.
Also, Alistiar did build me a garden shed last year ( I feel really ungrateful now) plaque and all. Here are some pics.
This year was brilliant and Alistair brought me a glass of champagne at 2pm and after an early evening scented oil bath, I surfaced for a beautiful dinner that the boys had cooked for me. All in all a fantastic birthday, and one I plan to re-enact next year.
I didn't open the shutters yesterday so I don't know what the garden was up to, but it was still all there this morning, although covered in frost. Looks like the banana trees have been caught and a few other things, but the winter flowering pansies are OK.