My Birthday!

Last Saturday (sorry for the delayed posting - its been a busy week!) was my birthday - I was 31, as Mrs Southgate pointed out on many occasion!! : )

Anyway, my blog starts about 6 weeks prior to that when Lizet asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday. I told her, I'd quite like a night in with the gang, a curry and to play some games - hopefully Trivial Pursuit DVD edition which I was hoping I might get for my birthday. "That's fine" said Lizet, "come to our house and we'll invite the gang - in fact leave it to me and Ruth, we'll sort it all out" .... at which point I promptly burst in to tears (no surprises there!) and sobbed "no-one's ever arranged a birthday party like that for me!"

So the guests were invited and I arrived at Robert and Lizets at the appointed time to find that there was no curry because Lizet and Ruth had spent all afternoon cooking a 3 course meal!! Everyone was in on it! I'd even asked Helen on the Friday night if she'd ordered the curry for us to share - she had! good job I didn't ask what we were having!

Well, the curry was a distant memory as we sat down to soup, followed by chicken in a tomato/pepper/bbq sauce with veg (lovely carrot batons Ruth!) and then Nigella's hot chocolate puddings. In between main and dessert we played pass the parcel and, probably not surprisingly, I won!

Little bit of cream with that Andy?

The whole evening was fantastic, by far the best birthday surprise ever!

I just want to say a HUGE thanks to all of my sneaky, but very lovely friends for coming and for making it a night to remember! Especially big thanks to Ruth and Lizet for doing all the organising and cooking.

You're all great and I'm very blessed to have you all xx